[time-nuts] Metastability in a 100 MHz TIC

Tom Van Baak tvb at LeapSecond.com
Sat Jul 21 01:37:44 UTC 2007


> The simpler and cheaper D 
> flipflop precedence detector used together with hardware sawtooth 
> correction has far higher resolution. It also has the advantage of not 
> requiring any high frequency clocks.
> 
> Bruce

Since Rick & Dr TAC brought it up some months ago, does
anyone have measurements for this approach yet?

Also what is its equivalent resolution; i.e., what resolution
would a conventional TIC need to be to match the behavior
of the D-flipflop approach, all other factors equal?

/tvb





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