Re: Phase Jitter of a free-running oscillator

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From: mdr
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1987 22:24

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In article <1444@vice.TEK.COM> keithl@vice.TEK.COM (Keith Lofstrom) writes:
>Phase jitter in an analog oscillator can be caused by environmental variations
>such as supply ripple, temperature fluctuations, or mechanical vibration, or
>simple thermal noise in the oscillator or resonant device.  

How can I obtain large fluctuations in a *low* speed oscillator?  I
want an oscillator at about 3 kHz with large unpredictable variation
in the lengths of individual cycles.

Mike
-- 
	Reed College -- Portland, Oregon -- 503/774-9192

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Subject: Re: Phase Jitter of a free-running oscillator
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Date: Tue, 17-Feb-87 17:24:32 EST
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