[time-nuts] What is a Time-Nut grade Zero Crossing Circuit?

[SAIDJACK at aol.com]

Hello Bruce,
 
I believe a driver for an FPGA running at 350MHz was the initial query,  6GHz 
BW and crystal filters are probably overkill.
 
bye,
Said
 
 
In a message dated 7/31/2008 01:59:34 Pacific Daylight Time,  
bruce.griffiths at xtra.co.nz writes:

Yes,  however it is quieter and adding duty cycle stabilisation feedback 
fixes  that problem.

For even lower noise, bandpass filter the OCXO output (a  crystal filter 
is particularly effective).
Its not too difficult to  drop the noise floor to a few tens of femtosec.
The drawbacks being the  cost, and the need to regulate the bandpass 
filter temperature to minimise  phase shift variations with ambient 
temperature.
You would also need to  use a quieter clock driver.
It may even be necessary to use a well designed  bandpass limiter to 
increase the signal zero crossing slew rate before  using a 6GHz 
bandwidth clock driver.

However the cost and  complexity probably isnt justified when driving an 
FPGA which may have  tens of picoseconds of  jitter.

Bruce





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