[time-nuts] minimalist sine to square

[Jerry Hancock]

Tom might have started this as I was playing around with PICDIV and had asked him the best conditioning circuit.  Turned out I had all the parts to copy the TADD-2 including the mini circuits transformer so that’s what I did.  It works well, pretty sensitive, etc.  I’ve also used the bias trick with a TTL or CMOS buffer when I needed to convert SPIDF signals to baseband for driving an optical connection.

Now that I had the input conditioned, I need to drive a 50ohm load with the signal coming from the PICDIV.  Can someone point me at a circuit using transistors and 10V if possible?

I am trying to duplicate one channel of the TADD2 so I can bring 10Mhz down to 10Khz.

Thanks

Jerry


> On Jan 20, 2018, at 11:21 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
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> In message <eb956eca-4534-0463-031b-232f8bdbd62f at earthlink.net>, jimlux writes:
> 
>>> I played with that, I used a small transformer to balance the signal
>>> and then into LVDS receiver through a voltage divider.  Worked well,
>>> but I didn't measure the jitter, it was just for a micro-controller.
>> 
>> You can also do it with capacitive dc block to one side, and some 
>> resistors - the ap notes describe it.  The receivers are a fairly high Z 
>> input, so you pick the voltage divider resistors to make the termination 
>> resistance right for the incoming signal.
> 
> Yes, but that doesn't give you galvanic isolation, which I think is almost
> mandatory unless it is a metrology situation.
> 
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