[time-nuts] femtosecond jitter anyone?
Chris Mack / N1SKY
sometimesyoufeellikeanut at twentylogten.com
Thu Apr 9 00:28:35 UTC 2009
On Apr 8, 2009, at 8:02 PM, Bruce Griffiths wrote:
> Unless you are prepared to place the crystals in an oven with the
> temperature regulated tightly and carefully tune the filter
> periodically
> then using a crystal filter (or any passive filter with a sufficiently
> narrow bandwidth to cleanup the skirts) will not be particularly
> useful.
> It would be much easier to use a low bandwidth analog PLL with a low
> noise VCXO to cleanup the 38.88MHz signal.
>
http://www.national.com/pf/LM/LMK04000B.html
Their app note uses a very low noise VCXO... The simulator software
gets pretty close...
Cheers,
-chris
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