[time-nuts] Centering ocxo

[Bill Dailey]

ok..  So that may very well be true of this unit.  Electrical tuning is
3E-7  0 - 5v (+/-).  It also lists a digital tuning range of +- 3Hz at
10MHz.  Correct me if I am wrong but that appears to mean 3Hz electrical
and 6Hz digital tuning range.   I am not doing digital tuning but thought I
would throw that out there.

I have been trying to "optimize" parameters on this Fury board but it seems
my "optimization" has just been increasing the deviation.  Running 1.8 ns
sd overnight with an average TI of about 26ns (was with my "optimized"
settings)...the original settings were giving me a much lower deviation...I
didnt log it but looking at the graph of frequency in excel I would say
probably between 0.1-0.6 ns.  I just put it back on the original settings
and am letting it settle now.  Was adjusting Dampening, EFCSCALE and DAC
gain.  My observations reveal dampening makes it a bit slower to respond
and perhaps settles it some, The efcscale seems to act as pure gain on top
of the baseline dac gain which is essentially determined by the tuning
range as you referred to.  What I saw with a low efcscale is that the TI
was higher but the SD lower... with efc scale higher the TI was lower but
the SD suffered.

Since my goal here is low noise and very good short term stability I prefer
the lower efcscale  (low gain with low SD).

Let me know if I have any gross conceptual errors here or if I am looking
at this properly.

Doc
KX0O


On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:54 PM, Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net> wrote:

>
> docdailey at gmail.com said:
> > I am ok for awhile but how do you center the efc of an ocxo?  I
> understand
> > there is something (screw) to adjust the ocxo so it is approximately on
> freq
> > with 2.5v efc.
>
> > Specific oscillator datum-1111c. I have he datasheet but doesn't say
> "coarse
> > frequency adjust this screw" or some such.
>
> There may not be a coarse adjustment.  If the tuning range is big enough to
> cover the aging over your design life, you don't need one.
>
>
> There is a tradeoff between adjustment range and the number of bits you
> need
> in a DAC to get a required accuracy.
>
> Suppose I have an adjustment range of 1 Hz (peak to peak) on a 10 MHz
> oscillator.  That's 1 part is 10^7.  If I have a 10 bit DAC, I can adjust
> to
> 1 part is 10^10.  A 20 bit DAC can get to 1 part is 10^13.
>
> But if the tuning range is 10 Hz, the same 20 bit DAC setup only gets you
> to
> 1 part is 10^12.
>
>
>
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Doc

Bill Dailey
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