[time-nuts] DDS'ery narrow scoped.
Ulrich Bangert
df6jb at ulrich-bangert.de
Tue Jun 21 09:03:22 UTC 2011
Luis,
the information that you are concerned about close carrier spurs that will
pass through the PLL's low pass filter is not precise enough: are you
talking about a few Hz, a few ten Hz, a few 100 Hz away from the carrier or
are you going to build a device for precise timing applications where also
spurs far below (perhaps orders of magnitude below) 1 Hz may be of concern?
Best regards
Ulrich Bangert, DF6JB
> -----Ursprungliche Nachricht-----
> Von: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com
> [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] Im Auftrag von Luis Cupido
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 21. Juni 2011 02:20
> An: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
> Betreff: [time-nuts] DDS'ery narrow scoped.
>
>
> Folks,
>
> Many thanks to you all, for the info.
> This is indeed a great forum.
>
> My aplic. is a DDS signal that
> will serve as reference for a pll with a relatively
> narrow loop filter. As I said before.
>
> Most replies presume the analog world with DAC
> filters etc etc. But that I know ;-)
> I'm digging out the possibilities in the digital side
> not involving going back to analog and back to digital.
> this is how this started :-)
>
>
> Now that you all have been so kind in the great comments
> you gave, please let me just be
> very very very specific.
>
>
> Imagine an FPGA and a square wave coming out.
> Just that. Nothing more.
>
> (That is what I had in mind when querying about the MSB usage
> in the first place.)
>
>
> My first approach was the ACC MSB
> (and that is working already on the bench.)
>
> So I'm researching a way to have that digital output cleaner (spurs)
> without leaving the digital(FPGA) world sticking to the block
> diagram of one FPGA one digital output. Specially worried
> about close in spurs
> (the far away ones won't bother me much).
>
> That is really scenario I'm trying to picture if there is any
> hope to generate a cleaner digital output out of an FPGA (dds
> with whatever
> processing required to be done after and producing a square wave).
>
> Thanks for your patience.
>
> Luis Cupido.
> ct1dmk
>
>
> P.S. At the moment I'm testing on the bench with a real FPGA
> cyclone III with a 48bit dds at 100MHz fclock and at circa 6
> and 18MHz output and it
> is not that bad. I got better than -60dBc in the desired
> ranges. So not too unhappy for a start ;-) PLL cleans 99% of
> it... but the close in spurs are annoying.
>
>
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