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- From: jhallen@world.std.com (Joseph H Allen)
- Subject: Re: pixel clock
- Message-ID: <C0p9vF.BM8@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <sVq7wB2w165w@sys6626.bison.mb.ca>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 17:28:26 GMT
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- In article <sVq7wB2w165w@sys6626.bison.mb.ca> flux@sys6626.bison.mb.ca (John Kamchen) writes:
- >I am looking for a circuit that can provide me with a 14.318318Mhz
- >pixel clock, derived from an incomming video source.
- >I'm using an LM1881 video sync separator to obtain the needed sync
- >signals.
-
- Well you could do it the same way TVs do: Use a crystal oscillator
- phase-locked loop. That is, instead of using a VCO, use a crystal
- oscillator with a variactor diode to adjust the crystal frequency a little.
- Use some type of charge-pump circuit to get the control voltage for the
- diode, and only enable the pump-up and pump-down signals during burst-gate
- from the 1881. See any color TV schematic.
-
- Have you tried a 74S124 VCO? That should be stable enough if you power the
- analog side of it with its own 7805. Also make sure no high-frequency noise
- can get into the control signals. Parallel the PLL filter with small disk
- capacitors.
-
- Also there is supposedly a difference between signetics and ti versions of
- the 74S124. The signetics version was supposed to be the best.
-
- A few days ago someone posted another good method: Use a low-distortion
- transistor sine-wave oscillator for a VCO.
-
- Tonight I'm going to attempt to build a PLL for deriving the dot-clock from
- the H-sync signal of a computer-generated video source. Its for a b/w video
- capture board for obtaining data from medical imaging equipment (the
- computers for CAT scanners and MRI machines unfortunately don't allow users
- to download the image directly, so you have to capture it from the video
- output to the monitor. Also there's no standard video signal they use, so
- you have to handle any video format). So I'm about to have this same
- problem.
-
- BTW, what good wideband flash A/D convertors have people seen? I'm using an
- ADC-304 from DATEL, but they're expensive and the ADC-304 is speced only up to
- 8MHz bandwidth and 20Mhz sample rate. Their 1988 catalogue lists better
- ones, (like the ADC-301 which is 15MHz bandwidth and 30MHz sample rate) but
- they're ECL, have high capacitance inputs and the salesperson says that
- ADC-301 - ADC-303 are discontinued.
-
- Also are any fast acquisition time sample & hold circuits available? I'm
- digitizing a periodic signal, so the capturing doesn't have to be real-time.
- How difficult would it be to make a fast diode-switch sampler (as in a
- mixer), using an LH0033 as a driver?
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