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Measuring a TAPR TICC resolution

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Mark Sims
Thu, Jul 13, 2017 4:05 AM

I recently taught Lady Heather how to calculate real time histograms of the various plots.

While characterizing the performance of a UCT-8663 DOCXO installed in a HP-53132A counter (using the Gerry Sweeny board),  I enabled the histogram feature and got a nice plot showing the TAPR TICC time interval resolution.

The TICC was configured for timestamp mode with chA=counter 10 MHz output to a TADD2-mini divider,  chB=5071A 1PPS, TICC clock=5071A 10 MHz.  The TICC time interval resolution is clearly visible... the bin peaks are 54.471 ps apart.

I recently taught Lady Heather how to calculate real time histograms of the various plots. While characterizing the performance of a UCT-8663 DOCXO installed in a HP-53132A counter (using the Gerry Sweeny board), I enabled the histogram feature and got a nice plot showing the TAPR TICC time interval resolution. The TICC was configured for timestamp mode with chA=counter 10 MHz output to a TADD2-mini divider, chB=5071A 1PPS, TICC clock=5071A 10 MHz. The TICC time interval resolution is clearly visible... the bin peaks are 54.471 ps apart.