[time-nuts] u-blox "naked" chips - anyone brave enough to try them?

Attila Kinali attila at kinali.ch
Wed Jun 15 09:22:31 EDT 2016


On Wed, 15 Jun 2016 07:03:28 -0400
Bob Camp <kb8tq at n1k.org> wrote:


> If you feed the chip with your local reference: 
> 
> 1) You need to synthesize a signal at the expected frequency (26 MHz, 48 MHz … whatever)

26MHz is rather benign to generate. Either use TCXO that has already
26MHz (e.g. ASVTX-09 from Abracon are readily available) or lock some VCXO
to an OCXO of your choise using a simple divider+XOR based PLL.
If you feel like it you could even use a tiny FPGA (ICE40 come to mind)
to implement the PLL and get more flexibility.
 
> 2) The signal needs to be low phase noise (per the chip set specs)

The specs of the oscillator used in the LEA modules is pretty much standard.
Not a great oscillator, but not a bad one either. The above mentioned
ASVTX-09 is in the same ballpark.

> 3) The signal needs to be constrained for ADEV (per the chip set specs)

Same as above.
If you lock the VCXO to an OCXO, this will be much better.


			Attila Kinali

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