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Offline H.O

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Re: Yet another fast edge pulse generator
« Reply #250 on: October 30, 2017, 08:50:13 pm »
I've updated the spreadsheet with all the entries so far.
In the spreadsheet all calculated bandwidths are based on a pulser risetime of 50ps which we now know is quite concervative, especially with Leo's 2nd generation units. As is, the spreadsheet doesn't even handle the 31ps to 34ps figures properly.

The spreadsheet is here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uknvUdL4gNuTyuK7MNAkCj95GFSsDtfgr7nObVppFiE/edit?usp=sharing

If anyone want access to it just PM me your email adress and I'll add you to the list.
 

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Re: Yet another fast edge pulse generator
« Reply #251 on: October 31, 2017, 06:23:36 am »
@H.O
Hi,
You forgot my post #156 for the HP 1742A in the table.
Cheers,
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Re: Yet another fast edge pulse generator
« Reply #252 on: October 31, 2017, 07:45:27 am »
@H.O

In my post 207 the rise time of Tek 7904 with 7T11 and 7S11 (with S-4) is less than 60 ps (not 80 ps).
« Last Edit: October 31, 2017, 09:54:35 am by EV »
 

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Re: Yet another fast edge pulse generator
« Reply #253 on: October 31, 2017, 07:53:22 am »
Here is an other picture with 50 ps time base.
 

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Re: Yet another fast edge pulse generator
« Reply #254 on: October 31, 2017, 11:06:33 am »
That seems slow for a 100MHz 'scope - should be around 3.5ns?

It's because the real-time sampling rate is low.
I've updated my reply.
 

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Re: Yet another fast edge pulse generator
« Reply #255 on: October 31, 2017, 11:15:04 am »
That seems slow for a 100MHz 'scope - should be around 3.5ns?

It's because the real-time sampling rate is low.
I've updated my reply.

Running the 54642D in equivalent time might improve its rise time performance a little too, certainly I've found that on other Agilent/Keysight scopes that support it (e.g. MSO7104B, 54832D).
 

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Re: Yet another fast edge pulse generator
« Reply #256 on: October 31, 2017, 12:11:05 pm »
Running the 54642D in equivalent time might improve its rise time performance a little too, certainly I've found that on other Agilent/Keysight scopes that support it (e.g. MSO7104B, 54832D).

I've updated my reply once again.
 

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Re: Yet another fast edge pulse generator
« Reply #257 on: October 31, 2017, 02:35:43 pm »
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LeCroy J-250 1GHz 16GS/s (WavePro 950): Avg rise time 0.246 ns, Single-shot acquisition
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Works great! Thank you, Leo!  :-+
I hate that your 1 GHz J-250 (WavePro 950 ish) is faster than my 2 GHz WavePro 960. But I've confirmed a -3dB point just above 2 GHz on the 960 so it does live up to spec. And my overshoot and ringing looks very different than yours. Curious.

Can you try the same bandwidth measurement technique that I used in my post? This will show you not only the -3 dB point but also the passband ripple of the scope. It's nice to know those things. You may or may not have deep FFT support on your unit depending on options (look for WAVA or WAVAPRO or WPRO in options list).
 

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Re: Yet another fast edge pulse generator
« Reply #258 on: October 31, 2017, 03:36:59 pm »
Can you try the same bandwidth measurement technique that I used in my post?

Yes, here's pictures.

LeCroy J-250 1GHz 50GS/s (WavePro 950): Avg rise time 0.251 ns, RIS (Random Interleaved Sampling) acquisition, 5 ns timebase
« Last Edit: November 01, 2017, 10:47:03 am by 1Ghz »
 

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Re: Yet another fast edge pulse generator
« Reply #259 on: October 31, 2017, 03:59:42 pm »
Can you try the same bandwidth measurement technique that I used in my post?

Yes, here's pictures.
I must try this with the 950, though I know it only has the "vanilla" FFT
 

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Re: Yet another fast edge pulse generator
« Reply #260 on: October 31, 2017, 06:59:03 pm »
Can you try the same bandwidth measurement technique that I used in my post?

Yes, here's pictures.
Nice, way beyond spec. And a nice rolloff, not the brick wall that the 960 has.
I guess you could change your name to 1.8GHz now.  :-DD
 
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Re: Yet another fast edge pulse generator
« Reply #261 on: October 31, 2017, 08:02:04 pm »
Said in my previous post that I would try it on my Tek R7912AD.

This is a single shot transient digitizer with a 500MHz bandwidth (about 1GHz direct access).
The 10 to 90% risetime looks to be around 700ps.
Using the risetime ~ 0.35/bandwidth guide I get 500MHz...... 8)





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Re: Yet another fast edge pulse generator
« Reply #262 on: October 31, 2017, 08:15:49 pm »
Update 21 September 2017.

I have been slightly tweaking the design between the batches to milk a bit more performance out of it.

Latest batch of the pulsers that I have assembled today all show risetime and falltime below 40ps.


You mentioned a few revisions to get a better performance. I have your Rev E batch rated as 50ps. From the photo I can see a few modifications in the upper right.
Is this something that I can retrofit on the old board or would that be too tricky?

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Re: Yet another fast edge pulse generator
« Reply #263 on: October 31, 2017, 08:32:14 pm »
You mentioned a few revisions to get a better performance. I have your Rev E batch rated as 50ps. From the photo I can see a few modifications in the upper right.
Is this something that I can retrofit on the old board or would that be too tricky?
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Current revision is Rev.G and I have modified power bypass quite a lot. So the short answer is "tricky" :)
The best I can offer you is another one from current Rev.G with a discount.  But 50ps is pretty darn fast as it is.
Leo
 

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Re: Yet another fast edge pulse generator
« Reply #264 on: October 31, 2017, 09:02:26 pm »
Thanks Leo.
Since 50ps is already much faster than anything I own right now I'll be OK for the next while!
I was just intrigued on how you did it and if it was easily transferable to the previous version when I saw your posting.
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Re: Yet another fast edge pulse generator
« Reply #265 on: November 01, 2017, 08:52:45 am »
Said in my previous post that I would try it on my Tek R7912AD.

This is a single shot transient digitizer with a 500MHz bandwidth (about 1GHz direct access).
The 10 to 90% risetime looks to be around 700ps.
Using the risetime ~ 0.35/bandwidth guide I get 500MHz...... 8)

Now that is quite a beast. I had to look it up and its pretty interesting.

http://w140.com/tekwiki/wiki/7912

Turns out back in 1973 they made this work using a CRT tube with a plate of detectors on the end(That are also read with a electron beam like a vidicon tube) to create a high speed AD converter.
« Last Edit: November 01, 2017, 09:11:27 am by Berni »
 

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Re: Yet another fast edge pulse generator
« Reply #266 on: November 01, 2017, 11:38:07 am »
HP 16530A 100MHz 400MS/s: Avg rise time 3.4 ns, Average acquisition, 5 ns timebase
 

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Re: Yet another fast edge pulse generator
« Reply #267 on: November 01, 2017, 03:48:45 pm »
Thank you to those who pointed out some mistakes and omissions in the spreadsheet (on and off list).
I believe I've fixed those now and I've added the last day(s) entries.
 

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Re: Yet another fast edge pulse generator
« Reply #268 on: November 01, 2017, 11:41:34 pm »
Can you try the same bandwidth measurement technique that I used in my post?

Yes, here's pictures.
I must try this with the 950......

And the result is:



Not quite as good as 1GHz's machine, but not too shabby.

Out of interest the Lecroy is good for this analysis as it makes it easy to use the output of one maths function as the input to another - that does not seem to be the case for a Keysight DSO1024A or Tenma 72-8725 that I have recently had to play with - it could simply be that I've not figured out how to get them to play ball but both of these 'scopes seem to have fairly shallow memories and only do FFT based on what is on screen.

What other 'scopes can do this analysis to show the impulse power spectrum?
 

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Re: Yet another fast edge pulse generator
« Reply #269 on: November 02, 2017, 12:14:28 am »
I was able to convince my Phillips PM3320A (ca. 1987) to do it, but it wouldn't the horizontal of the FFT result as frequency, only as points. I guess the firmware designers didn't anticipate users doing FFT of a d/dr of a waveform. Anyway the resulting FFT just wasn't as convincing as the WavePro result. I manually measured the -3dB bandwidth as 375 MHz, not bad for a 200 MHz scope.

Is your WavePro actually as grey as it looks in the photo? My 960 is a distinctive blue-grey that is actually quite ugly.
 

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Re: Yet another fast edge pulse generator
« Reply #270 on: November 02, 2017, 10:09:31 am »
Is your WavePro actually as grey as it looks in the photo? My 960 is a distinctive blue-grey that is actually quite ugly.
Blue-grey is about right, no attempt was made for accurate colour balance in the above shot so the camera has almost certainly interpreted the front panel as mid grey and adjusted accordingly.
 

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Re: Yet another fast edge pulse generator
« Reply #271 on: November 02, 2017, 07:11:37 pm »
Here i tried the pulsar on a Agilent MSO9204H.



Doing a FFT of a derivative is easy here since it has 16 math channels to choose from and each can feed in to the next.

About what is to be expected with a rise time of 147ps and the FFT showing a -3dB bandwith at 3.1GHz.
 

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Re: Yet another fast edge pulse generator
« Reply #272 on: November 02, 2017, 10:24:40 pm »
With a Leo SMA modded version on an HP 54120B & 54121A combo, 35.6ps. (I was getting about 55ps on the BNC version with a rather generic BNC-SMA interseries adapter of indeterminate provenance).

I feel sure I may be able to do better with some experimentation: still it's almost as good as the scope's internal pulse generator (~33ps).

 

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Re: Yet another fast edge pulse generator
« Reply #273 on: November 03, 2017, 01:09:22 am »
That is pretty cool.....especially for a tiny $75 device.

Glad I got one.
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Re: Yet another fast edge pulse generator
« Reply #274 on: November 23, 2017, 02:45:24 am »
I got in my pulser a couple of days ago.  A couple of new measurements for the table:

Tek TDS3034 (non-A) up-hacked to TDS3054:  560 ps / 715 MHz
Tek THS730A: 1.4 ns /  285 Mhz

Used 0.4 / rise time for the calculation.
 


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