How to generate a tracking pulse with nano-seconds precision in a low-cost way

Hi there,

I believe it is easy to use a high-end digital oscillator these days to generate a tracking pulse with a few nanoseconds delay compared to the reference pulse. However, I am thinking about the possibility to implement the task in a different way, a lower-cost way.

Last month I designed a small circuit to generate the reference pulse sequence at 35.42MHz with DW9255 (35.42M central freq plus max 300ns GDR)at board. Now I want to add a few more components to the board so I can generate a tracking pulse sequence as well. I want the tracking pulse sequence is only a few nano-seconds delay compared to the inputing pulse sequence, and I want the delay between them is as stable as possible. For example, 10 nanoseconds delay with 1 nanosecond drms. In other word, I only care about the time difference stability between these two sequences.

I am thinking about any possibilties at this moment and their costs as well, for example, a positive feedback circuit. Could anybody please provide me some ideas to implement this task? Lower cost will be better.

Thanks in advance.

Johnson