[time-nuts] Interfacing a 8dBm sine output of an OCXO to a digital logic standard

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Fri Sep 16 10:43:26 EDT 2005


In message <a06230901bf5081d351a4@[192.168.0.8]>, David Forbes writes:

>>My very stable OCXO output a 8dBm (50ohm) sine wave. How is this signal
>>converted/interfaced to a logic standard (e.g. LVDS)?

The best way to do it is actually with 1:1 PLL.

In modern computers the synchronous RAM requires clock signals which
have very tight specs on delay and jitter and the only way this is
possible in practice is by using 1:1 PLL's as "zero delay buffers".

See for instance:

	http://www.icst.com/datasheets/ics2305.pdf

ICS has many interesting clock chips which can be used for other
uses than what they were designed.  Worth a browse.


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