[sdiy] VCO reset time for BBD-based PM

JH. jhaible at debitel.net
Wed Jun 2 22:52:45 CEST 2004


> Hmm, a discharge of 300ns is 1/3000th of the cycle of a 1kHz. That would
> mean that at 1kHz you're off by 0.3Hz and at 10khz you're off by 3Hz....

I'd say that's ok - just so - for an audio VCO.

But once you want to clock a BBD for making a Physical Modelling oscillator,
it looks pretty bad. With a BBD length of 512 stages, you're already in the
1ns
range of reset time for the accuracy quoted above. Or use some compensation
method and longer reset times.

Re-introducing Harry's dreaded BBDs into the thread (;->)
But I'm serious about this application. So who makes a HF VCO that goes
up into the MHz range and keeps the tracking error in the ns range ??
HF compensation allowed, PPLs not allowed.

JH.



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