[time-nuts] Question concerning failure and value of HP 5371A

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Sun Oct 16 13:52:47 EDT 2005


In message <6.1.1.1.1.20051016103058.00ba7350 at pop.fast.net>, buehl writes:

>Even at the 200 MHz rate, the very high 
>transition time of the input pulses required that the circuit be "clean" at 
>1 GHz.

It used to be a rule of thumb that analog circuits should have 8
times the bandwidth of any squarewave to be handled such that the
3rd, 5th and 7th overtones were intact.

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