[time-nuts] Adafruit Ultimate GPS timing message arrival times
Hal Murray
hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Sat Jul 30 22:31:11 UTC 2016
tvb at LeapSecond.com said:
> Just in case we have some newcomers to the thread I'd like to point out
> that this recent series of measurements of RS232 / NMEA have no bearing at
> all on the quality of the timing output. Timing NMEA is more of a
> curiosity; something to measure at the hundreds or tens of millisecond
> level. As anyone knows, the real timing output of these receiver is the
> 1PPS pulse itself, which is good to the tens of nanoseconds level. So a
> factor of a million different.
I think that depends on how far down the nutty scale you are operating.
I think all the investigations of timing over serial ports are useful. You
can get sub millisecond timing over RS-232. That is interesting for things
like NTP if you don't have a PPS connection, so it helps to know which chips
are good and which ones to avoid,
Serial ports are getting rare. Most USB to RS-232 chips are slow with a 1 ms
polling rate. I think AdaFruit has one that polls 8x faster. That should
get sub-ms timing if coupled with a good GPS chip.
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