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- From: Mike Diack <mike-d@staff.tc.umn.edu>
- Subject: Re: 74HC4046 help required.
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- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 03:37:42 GMT
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- In article <7116@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> Mark Robinson,
- mark-r@spec0.ee.man.ac.uk writes:
- >If anyone has a datasheet for the 74HC4046 PLL chip handy would
- >you let me know how the frequency of the VCO is related to the
- >values of R's and C and the max/min values that they can take.
- >
- >I want to run it with a lock range of about 1MHz, centred on
- >8MHz, but the equations in the Maplin catalogue don't allow
- >frequencies >2.8MHz (R=5k, C=50pF; ie the minimum allowed) even
- >though they claim the VCO can get up to 15MHz. I think their
- >data must be for the 4046 and none of our databooks are modern
- >enough to include the 'HC4046 :-(
-
- Something you should be aware of is that all HC4046's are NOT
- created equal. Two extremes I have found are
- 1 : An SGS device that was barely able to oscillate at 1 MHz
- (and the output waveform was triangular at that frequency)
- and -
- 2 : An RCA device that was still producing respectable square
- waves at 10 Mhz
- (Both devices running into a scope probe only , 5 volt supply)
-
- At the frequency you want (8 Mhz) the design nomographs
- become a bit irrelevant, as internal Cs & Rs dominate the issue.
-
- I was driven to using LS124/324s, but i only wanted the vco
- function, no doubt someone makes a better PLL.
- cheers,
- Mike.
-