[time-nuts] Coarse adjustment of PRS-10 with 5335A

Magnus Danielson magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org
Mon Sep 2 20:00:36 EDT 2013


On 09/02/2013 03:09 PM, Bob Camp wrote:
> Hi
>
> You probably are better off simply taking all the samples into your "smarts" and handling things there rather than having the 5335 do it for you. Since you are simply looking at data once a second (delta T between two 1 pps signals) it's not a compute intensive setup. 
>
> If you are trying to measure frequency with the 5335 rather than pps signals, you have some other problems to deal with. The data rate is still very slow. Even with this setup I would not play with the 5335 internal math, other than to subtract the nominal frequency. The sole advantage there is having data that's easier on the eyes.
Also considering that the PRS-10 beats the 5335 with about 10 times
better single-shot resolution.

Cheers,
Magnus


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