[time-nuts] External clock for Analog to Digital Converter in GPS Rx front-end

Hal Murray hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Fri Mar 2 19:00:02 EST 2007


> Well, sure, but it also causes all kinds of secondary distortion
> effects (such as potential clipping at the rails of whatever you're
> feeding the signal into).  I don't think AM'ing the signal when you
> want PM is a good idea, when it's so easy to apply PM by itself. 

He's feeding a digital clock to an A/D.  Someplace he has to "clip" the sine 
wave to make a digital signal.

Feeding noise into the other side of the comparator seems like a good 
approach to me.


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