DOI 10.17586/0021-3454-2019-62-6-542-550
UDC 621.396
USING TIME-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTERS TO CONTROL THE CONTINUITY OF TIMELINE FOR NAVIGATION SPACECRAFT
Russian Institute of Radionavigation and Time, JSC; Laboratory of on-board navigation equipment; Head of the Laboratory;
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Abstract. A method is proposed for constructing private Comparators using time-to-digital converters to esti-mate the dispersion of Allan frequency, as one of the most important parameters of the onboard clock of the spacecraft. It is shown that the Application of integrated time-to-digital converters is shown to be a promising direction of development of the theory of synthesis of frequency Comparators. The main sources of error in the estimation of the mean square relative two-sample frequency deviation are identified: quantization noise, differential nonlinearity, and temperature fluctuations of the full scale error. A structural scheme of the PDA Converter with reduced sensitivity to the nonlinearity of the time discriminator is developed. Computational experiment confirmes the correctness of the results.
Keywords: time-to-digital converter, frequency stability, autocalibration, correlated double sampling, oversampling
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