[time-nuts] Triangle Waves

[Bob Camp]

Hi

The NIST guys at least at lunch would come back with "We only put enough in to get the paper published. The rest of he details will appear in another paper down the road". Some of the stuff has been coming out a piece at a time for 30 years now .....

Bob

On Feb 2, 2010, at 2:32 PM, Bruce Griffiths wrote:

> Bob Camp wrote:
>> Hi
>> 
>> The DAC will quite nicely produce a trapezoid (or clipped triangle wave). It's certainly on the list.
>> 
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>> I've had a lot of lunch time discussions with the NIST guys about their "obsession" with input levels. About all I can say is that I don't see the same sensitivities they do. I suspect a lot of the issue is that we're not using the exact same circuits / components.
>> 
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> Some of their papers are annoyingly incomplete, in that the measurement setups used were incompletely specified.
>> Matching the isolation amplifier to the mixer for efficient power transfer is something I do plan to look at. I suspect it's only good up to a certain point and then you get into trouble.
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>> Lots of things to check ...
>> 
>> Bob
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> Bruce
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