[time-nuts] Phase noise measurement with a scope

[Azelio Boriani]

Ah, well, now I'm not able to compute what impact can have this
"windowing" of the samples... maybe that just concatenating the
buffers' content is perfectly equivalent to have a continuous stream
of samples (for noise measurement only, of course). If the desired
noise band can fit into one buffer and the statistic properties don't
change from buffer to buffer then I think it is OK to concatenate or
use just one full buffer of samples. I think that problems can arise
only when trying to look very close to the carrier where more than one
full buffer must be available to measure the "slowness" of the noise.

On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Stefan Heinzmann
<stefan_heinzmann at gmx.de> wrote:
> Azelio Boriani wrote:
>>
>> The problem with sampling 'scopes is that you cannot get a continuos
>> samples stream. I think that the TimePod correlates continuously in
>> time.
>
> Does that matter for phase noise measurements? Doesn't that just make the
> measurement take correspondingly more time?
>
> Cheers
> Stefan
>
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