1 GHz divide-by-4

Dec 18, 2014 8 Replies

This saves a relatively expensive EclipsLite flipflop. The delay line could be a squiggly pcb trace... it's not super critical.


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John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc picosecond timing laser drivers and controllers jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com http://www.highlandtechnology.com

Check out the cool waveforms on the two ends of T1.

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John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc picosecond timing laser drivers and controllers

jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com

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John Larkin:

I use a UBP1505 (from ebay of course) 3$

What are all those funny numbers you posted??

The schematic as LTSpice I assume.

Dipl.-Inform(FH) Peter Heitzer, peter.heitzer@rz.uni-regensburg.de HTML mails will be forwarded to /dev/null.

RF stuff! It won't divide by 4, and has no reset input, and has no prop delay spec. I's probably a ripple counter with tons of delay and a bad tempco on that delay.

And NEC keeps discontinuing things.

John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc picosecond timing laser drivers and controllers jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com http://www.highlandtechnology.com

John Larkin:

Na, for div by 64 you get 6 flops for 3$ or you can tune to the 21th harmonic with a simple LC and a 30 cent transistor.

This one's been around a while, use it as prescaler in frequency counter. It is not inherently stable though, it will self-oscillate without input. So it is usable as synchronizer too :-)

Let it oscillate and count the output frequency. That would make a nice temperature transducer.

John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc picosecond timing laser drivers and controllers jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com http://www.highlandtechnology.com

John Larkin:

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Yup, CMOS has a terrible delay tempco. There's probably a diffused resistor or something involved in there, too.

Lots of uPs and FPGAs how have some sort of on-purpose, on-chip temp sensor.

I was just studying someone's timing product. It must have 20 CMOS tiny-logic chip delays from input to output, figure 10ish ps/K delay tempco each. I sure hope they temperature compensate some of that!

John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc picosecond timing laser drivers and controllers jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com http://www.highlandtechnology.com

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