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FMDemod, Phase noise and Polyphase

Started by Yip December 3, 2006
Thanks for the suggestions.

Unfortunately changing the differentiator doesn't seem affect much
towards this problem. The problem is still a high noise floor that is
inband..

However, I was able to confirm running the demod model by itself, or
even using the same ADC but run a much lower carrier frequency (4.5MHz
as opposed to 40.25MHz) both improves the SNR by a-lot (orders of
improvements). But the targetted input frequency range of 40.25MHz is
giving me the problems right now.

> Don't use PLL oscillators like the field programmable ones you can buy with > a one day turnaround for sampling purposes. Instead use properly cut > oscillators. I learnt that the hard way (they didn't teach you this stuff > when I went to college). 100ps jitter at 10MHz is a sampling disaster of the > order you're talking about.
This kind of freaks me out since I remember the oscillator really was a next-day delivery type. I think it was 108MHz type and mentions a 50ppm frequency tolerance. Is it good/bad? Is it possible to infer the clock and sampling jitters from there? What would be a reasonable overall ADC jitter amount for sampling 30~40MHz and 40~50MHz range to perform FM demodulaton? Also, is there a way to model and simulate effects of sampling distortions via a software model? Thanks in advance.