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fcb:
I've done big divides before using basic PIC's.  Works great, just don't use the PLL - something really simple like the 16F54.  You will get a lower jitter if you drive the PIC from a low noise supply, the jitter will mainly be down to the schmitt trigger in the CLOCK input in the PIC.

You could always use the PIC to gate a flip-flop driven by the 10MHz.

Have you a method of measuring jitter in those regions - 2ps seems optimistic and difficult to test.
awallin:
FWIW my PICDIV attempt from last year.
http://www.anderswallin.net/2016/04/picdiv-frequency-divider/
I'm not sure you absolutely need the sine-to-square converter-chip, biasing the PIC CLK-pin to half-way and AC-coupling a ~1Vpp sine-wave might be just as good?
Directly out of the PIC12F675 I got quite a low voltage (700mV) into 50R and not that great of a rise-time (4 ns).
Perhaps adding a simple buffer like 74HC04 or 74HC14 with three outputs or so in parallel would drive 2-3 V into 50R with a better rise-time.

With a typical good counter like a 53230A that has a 20ps single-shot spec I have a feeling it is quite hard to measure any added jitter that the PICDIV would generate - in other words it should be good enough for most purposes. I didn't try this last year but might return to this at some point..

bingo600:
The late Ulrich B , made an AVR PPSDIV (Picdiv lookalike)

The M8 version ought to be easy to adapt to an arduino
http://www.ulrich-bangert.de/html/downloads.html

/Bingo
Kleinstein:
If it needs to be more accurate, use an extra high speed (e.g. ECL, 74AHC or better) flipflop to synchronize the output of the divider to the reference clock. It is only that last sync stage that sets the jitter.

The jitter a divider made from a small µC (just make sure it does not use an internal PLL) is mainly form the internal synchronization circuit. So one can expect it about at the same level as one might get from a few 74HC flipflops, maybe a little more. The 2 ps might be a little on the optimistic side, but not much. These 2 ps are just relative to the 10 MHz reference clock. So for the 1 second period there would be additional jitter from the source, that could be at least of comparable size.

Dr. Frank:
Any divider solution with a PIC is the simplest and cheapest one.
The asm code is freely available, so if you have a programmer, just burn the code on your own.

Besides Ulrich Bangert and Tom van Baak, there's Brooke Clark http://www.prc68.com/I/PRC68COM.shtml#TVB, and the TAPR, which offers the best solution kit TADD-2, with input amplifier / sine square converter, divider and output driver / distribution, http://www.tapr.org/kits_tadd-2.html.

They also host different asm codes somewhere.

I used PIC 16F88, or 16F690, and had to slightly modify the code.

Using ordinary TTL divider-by-10 is no good idea, because these are mostly asynchronous dividers, having big jitter.
The  delay time is strongly temperature dependent, also on synchronous dividers, afaik, so not good at all for T.I. measurements.

So the PICDIV solution is also the best technical one.

Frank
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