[time-nuts] A new take on the all-hardware GPSDO concept

David davidwhess at gmail.com
Tue Sep 27 01:02:45 EDT 2016


Is there a schematic showing what you attempted?

I went back through the discussion thread and it was not real clear to
me which design you implemented.

On Mon, 26 Sep 2016 21:18:25 -0700, you wrote:

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>The results aren’t very good.
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>With a short TC loop filter, the PLL does lock up, but obviously the jitter of the Venus’ 10 MHz output comes through.
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>With a longer TC, the PLL never locks - or at least if it does lock, it’s locking significantly off frequency.
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>That’s with a 10 µF cap and varied resistors between 10k and 1M. The best I got was at 200k - a TC of 2s. That resulted in this video. Unlike other videos I’ve made comparing two GPSDOs, this one is not a time-lapse. The reference is an OH300 based GPSDO.
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>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiHRp0dCJ64 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiHRp0dCJ64>
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>A time constant of 10s (1M resistor) just doesn’t work at all.
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>But the real nail in the coffin here is that the price of the PLL chip is still more expensive than the microcontroller and all of the components it replaces.
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