[time-nuts] Understanding Oliver Collins Paper "Design of Low Jitter Hard Limiters"

raj_sodhi at agilent.com raj_sodhi at agilent.com
Tue Aug 21 20:57:29 UTC 2012


Hi Everyone,

I uploaded the paper to my music website.

http://www.rajsodhi.com/images/The%20Design%20of%20Low%20Jitter%20Hard%20Limiters,%20Oliver%20Collins%20May%201996.pdf 

Yours,

Raj


-----Original Message-----
From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On Behalf Of Rex
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 1:39 PM
To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Understanding Oliver Collins Paper "Design of Low Jitter Hard Limiters"

On 8/21/2012 1:22 PM, David wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 10:50:43 -0600,<raj_sodhi at agilent.com>  wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I am new to this forum.
>> It looks like a lively discussion on various topics.
>>
>> A colleague of mine here at Agilent pointed me to this paper entitled "The Design of Low Jitter Hard Limiters" by Oliver Collins. In Bruce Griffiths' precision time in frequency webpage, this paper is described as "seminal."
>> (http://www.ko4bb.com/~bruce/ZeroCrossingDetectors.html)
>>
>> Since I'm trying to create a limiter that will accept frequencies ranging from 1 MHz to 100 MHz, I thought it would be good to understand the conclusions of this paper (if not the mathematics as well).  The mathematics turned out to be quite challenging to decode. Has someone on this forum unraveled the equations? It appears Collins has recommendations on the bandwidth and gain of a jitter minimizing limiter, and then extends this analysis to provide the bandwidth and gain of a cascade of limiters.  But the application is still fuzzy.  In figure 5, he shows a graph showing the dependence of jitter on crossing time.  Is the crossing time (implied by equations 7) considered a design parameter one can vary? Also, on figure 4, the "k" parameter has been varied to show the rising waveform as a function of "k".  The threshold is always assumed to be 0.5.  So could "k" be related to "tau", the time constant of the RC filter?
>>
>> Thanks in advance for all your help.
>>
>> Yours
>>
>> Raj
> I would love to take a look at this but the links to the paper at the 
> IEEE are dead.  My Google search just turned up others looking for the 
> same paper.
>
Just search for the title on IEEE -
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/search/searchresult.jsp?newsearch=true&queryText=The+Design+of+Low+Jitter+Hard+Limiters&x=29&y=18

Of course then you need to figure out how to pay IEEE for the privilege of reading the 672 kb paper.



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