[time-nuts] Performance verification for time counters
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Wed Nov 29 23:17:29 UTC 2017
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In message <5e3f68620fdb8f2e5d62e9907a44c6eb.squirrel at email.powweb.com>, "Chris Caudle" writes:
>On Wed, November 29, 2017 3:51 pm, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> While it is tempting and probably easiest to use a DDS style
>> generator, I recommend a synthesized one instead, to avoid
>> trouble with numeric spurs.
>
>Can you describe the distinction you are making between a synthesized
>generator, and a direct-digital synthesized generator? I do not
>understand what would be meant by a synthesizer which is not DDS.
What used to be called a "Synthesized Signal Generator" was a almost
or even entirely analog beast, which means almost all distortion is
harmonic (2f, 3f, 4f, ...)
This is a good place to start, in particular the App-note at the
bottom:
http://hpmemoryproject.org/news/5100/hp5100_page_00.htm
DDS is "Direct Digital Synthesis" where you basically generate the
desired signal with a computer and D/A converter. Because this
discrete rather than continuous in time, there are all sorts of
"weird" distortion products, and aliasing artifacts.
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