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- From: gsulliva@enuxha.eas.asu.edu (Glenn A Sullivan)
- Subject: Re: Clocks
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.055211.26448@ennews.eas.asu.edu>
- Summary: Building a LOW-JITTER 14MHz oscillator
- Sender: news@ennews.eas.asu.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: Arizona State University
- References: <e26gwB4w165w@sys6626.bison.mb.ca>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 05:52:11 GMT
- Lines: 45
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- flux@sys6626.bison.mb.ca (John Kamchen) writes: .........
- > What I need is a 14Mhz clock that doesn't jitter the length of a video
- > line.
- > An LM1881 provides the syncs, and the clock should be stable as possible.
- > Looks like this
- > --____----------------------------------------------
- > _-____-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- and so on this is the 14Mhz clock
- >
- Does not jitter over the length of a video line! Assume less than 5 nanosec
- jitter out of 62Usec line length. This gives about 5 picoseconds jitter per
- cycle. Basically we need an oscillator with LOW PHASE NOISE, since phase
- noise is Frequency Modulation (PM and FM are related via integration).
-
- You need a high-Q tank circuit that IS >>>> NOT OVERDRIVEN <<<<.
- So use a transistor oscillator, with biasing adjusted to keep the signal
- swings well away from saturation or cutoff. And find a way to keep the
- maximum signal from building up and up, which would distort.
- With "linear" amplification that is barely
- barely adequate to oscillate, any off-frequency energy (phase noise)
- actually gets ATTENUATED on each pass around the tuned loop.
-
- HP uses a nice trick in the LC oscillators for their 3330 synthesizer:
- (1) they use a differential pair to form the oscillator, with the emitter
- resistor providing a very stable current
- (2) the oscillator is LOADED intentionally with a resistor, so that as
- the signal swing increases as stored energy increases, eventually the
- resistor is absorbing any additional energy dumped into the tank. Thus the
- operating swing is fairly well defined.
-
- Since HP hangs this resistor upon the tank circuit, and resistors themselves
- generate noise, you want a low value resistor to avoid directly inducing
- lots of Boltzmann/Johnson/thermal noise (phase noise) into the tank. So use
- series capacitors ( 1.1*C in series with 10*C) with the damping resistor
- hanging across the 10*C capacitor.
-
- Just when you thought analog design was totally passe', and that DSP
- methods would replace all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-
- Allen Sullivan
- analog design expert, video engineer, RF trainee, system analysis practitioner,
- DSP algorithm inventor, and hiker to where 300 foot waterfalls .....fall.
-
- Arizona in the winter!
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