[time-nuts] Divide by 3

Richard (Rick) Karlquist richard at karlquist.com
Thu Jun 9 02:44:18 UTC 2016



On 6/8/2016 9:59 AM, Charles Steinmetz wrote:

> You can achieve substantially lower jitter (phase noise) with a
> regenerative divider, which also allows you to divide by 3/2 for a 10MHz
> output.  I've built several like that, and they work extremely well.
>

When I was at Agilent, they developed a very low noise regenerative 
divide by 3/2 chain to use in high performance instruments.  The gurus 
who know about this stuff said it was the lowest phase noise
architecture.

Rick



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