[sdiy] Black Magic oscillator cans

[Magnus Danielson]

From: Roman <modular at go2.pl>
Subject: Re: RE: [sdiy] Black Magic oscillator cans
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 08:46:47 +0100

> How about little DDS?
> They make small low-power 10-pin devices now.
> With that you have both tunability (DC to several MHz)
> and 32-bit precision (dependent on external clock source
> of any frequency easy for you to generate).
> Of course you need a micro to take care about tuning,
> but it can be done so quick nobody would notice it's not
> analog.

This would boil down to a reference-clock, the DDS chip (please hint me about
which exists... I haven't tracked them) and a small 8-pin PIC maybe. Put it in
a small metal box and put a label "Reference Oscillator" on it so that nobody
would dare to open it up.

Cheers,
Magnus