[time-nuts] Spread Spectrum Spam!

Magnus Danielson magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org
Fri Nov 27 08:49:34 UTC 2009


Mark Sims wrote:
> 
> A valid use of spread spectrum clocks...  the Tek DC509 and DC510 series freq counters use a National Semi noise generator chip to dither the timebase clock when in time interval mode.  Helps to avoid the problem of measuring a signal that is the same freq as the timebase. 		 	   		  

So does the HP5328A with the right options (040, 041 or 042). In that 
context it is certainly a valid approach.

Cheers,
Magnus



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