[time-nuts] Updated Divider Jitter Results - 74HC390

[Bruce Griffiths]

Brian

The 5370B has inadequate resolution and noise to allow detection of the
difference between a jitter of say 1ps or one 4x that.
Your longer term measurements probably reflect the combined effect of
thermal drift in the 5370B and thermal drift in the divider propagation
delay.

The acceptable output jitter of a divider depends on the application for
which it is intended.
For generating a PPS signal for comparing with other PPS signals using a
time interval counter like the SR620 or HP5370A/B almost any reasonable
design will have an output jitter that is difficult to measure with such
a time interval counter. However for long term measurements the clock to
output delay tempco will be rather large for a non fully sysnchronous
divider.

If one wishes to use the output as a frequency standard for a low noise
synthesizer or similar application then the phase noise characteristics
of the divider output are more critical.

Bruce

Brian Kirby wrote:
> I will report some results on a asynchronous divider, which I basically 
> copied from Dr. Thomas Clark's designs, which everybody likes to report 
> as a bad design.
>
> The 10 MHz input signal is coupled thru a resistor and capacitor.  On 
> the other side of the capacitor is the resistive divider that is tied to 
> Vcc and ground - it biases the signal to 2.5 volts, which is feed to the 
> input of the 74HC132.   The output of the 74HC132 feeds several 74HC390s 
> until it becomes a buffered 1 pulse per second signal.  I also have 
> buffered 5 MHz and 1 MHz outputs.  The other 3/4 of the 74HC132 are used 
> to externally synchronize the 74HC390s.
>
> I used the Thunderbolt as the source of 10 MHz and it was feed to the 
> divider, and the stop input on the HP5370B.  The 5370B was run on 
> internal clock.  The 1 PPS from the divider feed the start input on the 
> 5370B.
>
> 100 seconds   TI 79.865 nS   MIN 79.80 nS   MAX 79.98 nS   STD 36.4 pS.
> 1000 seconds   TI 79.831 nS   MIN 79.71 nS   MAX 80.00 nS   STD 49.9 pS
> 10K seconds   TI   80.1552 nS   MIN 79.79 nS MAX 80.88 nS   STD 271 pS
> 100K planned
>
> Also a second test, using the Thunderbolt as a source of 10 MHz and it 
> was  feed to the divider, the stop input on the 5370B and the external 
> clock of the 5370B.  The 1 PPS from the divider feed the start input on 
> the 5370B.
>
> 100 seconds   TI   75.002 nS   MIN 74.96 nS   MAX 75.04 nS   STD 22.5 pS
> 1000 seconds   TI    74.931 nS   MIN 74.80 nS  MAX 75.04 nS   STD 56.8 pS
> 10K seconds   TI   77.5135 nS  MIN 77.40 nS  MAX 77.62 nS  STD 35.9 pS
> 100K measurement in progress.
>
> I believe having STD in parts of 10-14th is fairly respectable for 
> amateur designs..
>
> Brian KD4FM
>
> John Ackermann N8UR wrote:
>   
>> I just finished a jitter test of the first TADD-2 built on the 
>> production circuit board.
>>
>> The configuration was somewhat optimized from what I used for the 
>> earlier tests.
>>
>> A single 10 MHz source was daisy-chained to the TADD-2 input, to the 
>> 5370B external reference input, and to the 5370B STOP channel.  The 1 
>> PPS output from the TADD-2 was connected to the 5370B START channel. 
>> Thus any reference jitter shouldn't be common-mode, and using the 
>> reference clock on the STOP channel avoids the need for a second 
>> divider, and ensures that the time interval is small (always less than 
>> 100 ns; in this case, about 90 ns).
>>
>> For a 10,000 sample run, the standard deviation was 12.1 picoseconds, 
>> and the peak-to-peak variation was 70 picoseconds.  Based on experiments 
>> I ran a few years ago, I think this is pretty much the noise floor of 
>> the 5370B and the divider could be better than this.
>>
>> John
>>
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