[time-nuts] OCXO PLL gains?

Anders Wallin anders.e.e.wallin at gmail.com
Fri Feb 1 18:11:15 UTC 2019


Hi all, is there are rule-of-thumb or simple paper/presentation of how to
choose PLL-gains?

I have a phase-detector that gives out a slope of roughly 1 V/rad, followed
by an op-amp circuit with proportional, integral, and double-integral gains
summed into one voltage [0, 3.3V] on the tune-pine of the OCXO ( +/- 0.6
ppm pull-range, from datasheet).

So far it locks with only P-gain, but the phase-noise (and ADEV) shows a
'bump' somewhere between 10 and 100 Hz offset from the carrier.
I tried the integrator with a time-constant of 1/16Hz using R 100k  C 100n,
but it wouldn't lock.
The thinking was to put the integrator time-constant about where the
free-running ADEV turns upwards from a 1/tau slope.

So far I didn't enable the double-integrator - not sure if it's worth the
trouble or not..

thanks,
Anders



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