[time-nuts] Modern signal generators

[Gerhard Hoffmann]

Am 12.12.18 um 21:56 schrieb Richard (Rick) Karlquist:
> The TI/NationalSemiconductor LMX2594 and LMX2595 have the best
> phase noise floor FOM at -236.
>
> The AnalogDevices/LinearTechnology LTC6952 has the best flicker at -281.
> It requires an external VCO.  The LTC6951 with an on board VCO is
> almost as good.
>
> Although these are state of the air for a synthesizer-on-a-chip,
> it is easy to beat them if you roll your own with a mixer as
> a phase detector.
>
>
And the ADF4371 at -234

62.5 MHz to 32,000 MHz. Speedy. SMA is no longer good enough.

\Gerhard