[time-nuts] any HP 5370B Available or other TIC

[Javier Herrero]

El 18/08/2011 22:16, Tijd Dingen escribió:
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> So while I am not directly looking to divide my tinkering time between this project and yet another project, if what you plan to do in the fpga precision timing realm coincides enough ... it might be useful to combine some things. At the very least we could swap some ideas.
Yes, that would be the idea, to swap ideas :)
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> So what did you have in mind?
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My main interest is a TIC with better resolution than a 5370 and also 
with higher data flow, or with the capabilities to do some 
post-processing of a bunch of data. Really it is an idea I've from long, 
but not yet though too seriously on it (usually not too much time to 
dedicate to it :) ). I was at first thinking on an interpolator based 
TIC similar to the PICTIC idea (the ADC in the board seems handy for 
that), I've also read some papers about FPGA implementation of ~10ps 
resolution TICs, and then also the DDMTD idea has come. I really bought 
that little board only to play around (I could not resist the $79, that 
is only a bit over the digikey price for the FPGA alone, and that all 
the I/O pins are 2.54" spaced so it is very easy to play around with the 
signals and to build a "carrier" board for interfacing it) - the idea 
that could be the core for a nice TIC came after :) And well, if 
something good comes from it, we could "industrialize" the result at 
time-nuts level if there is some interest in the list :)

Regards,

Javier

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