We tried coarse and fine using a LTC 24 bit ADC for characterization but test time is prohibitive and all the data has to be stored, or do it dynamically like Tbolt does, I suspect SRS does something like that on the OCXO they can afford it since it looks like the do that through out the unit that is why you can not just replace one board' That is how the Japanese got in to the test equipment build sub par and test and store data while HP and others still focused on quality components now every one does it even an EF5680. Bert Kehren In a message dated 11/26/2017 12:25:49 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, kb8tq@n1k.org writes: Hi If you sum two DAC’s without any sort of feedback, you get problems when the “coarse” dac is changed. You have no way to know the step size of the coarse dac to (say) 20 bit precision. As an example : If you are after 20 “good” bits, you might overlap them at the 10 bit point on the coarse dac. That would give you 22 bits on the summed output. It would give you enough extra bits to take care of any odd things that might be going on. You only have 1/1024 of the total range before you must tune the coarse dac. Even with a good set of parts, you *will* be doing coarse tuning. Bob > On Nov 26, 2017, at 12:13 PM, Azelio Boriani <azelio.boriani@gmail.com> wrote: > > Is summing a "fine tune" 16bit DAC and a "coarse tune" 16bit (or less) > DAC with an op-amp not good enough? > > On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 5:53 PM, Bob kb8tq <kb8tq@n1k.org> wrote: >> Hi >> >> Each time I’ve tried the method in the app note, there has been a tone in the output >> spectrum at the sample rate of the ADC. I’ve never found a way to do the grounding >> that eliminates it. The tone is large enough to show up as a spur on a “ typical” OCXO >> when it goes into the EFC port. >> >> Bob >> >>> On Nov 26, 2017, at 8:56 AM, Ole Petter Rønningen <opronningen@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> I guess everyone has seen this, but Linear has a nice appnote «A Standards Lab Grade 20-Bit DAC with 0.1ppm/°C Drift» >>> >>> http://cds.linear.com/docs/en/application-note/an86f.pdf >>> >>> Ole >>> >>>> 26. nov. 2017 kl. 13:50 skrev Magnus Danielson <magnus@rubidium.dyndns.org>: >>>> >>>> Hi >>>> >>>>> On 11/26/2017 02:26 PM, Attila Kinali wrote: >>>>> Though, if you have a decent 16bit DAC and want to get to 18bit, >>>>> that's fairly simple using delta-sigma modulation... if you can live >>>>> with a low pass fillter after the DAC. But the DNL will be the limiting >>>>> factor here (unless you use some special techniques) and the (absolute) INL >>>>> will not get better, for obvious reasons. >>>> >>>> I needed 19 bit rather than 16 bit, so I implemented an interpolation scheme. A first degree sigma-delta would also be possible, but for low ratios what I did was more efficient. >>>> >>>> A first degree sigma-delta is fairly simple thought. >>>> >>>> The trick is that you want to push the noise high up so it becomes trivial to filter, then the filter will not be hard to design and won't be low enough to cause PLL instability and implementation troubles. >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> Magnus >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com >>>> To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >>>> and follow the instructions there. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com >>> To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >>> and follow the instructions there. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com >> To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >> and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.