[time-nuts] FE-5680A GPS discipline board on sale now
Bob Camp
kb8tq at n1k.org
Fri May 20 18:24:16 UTC 2016
Hi
If you go through the math on your eeprom, there is a point at which writes “don’t matter”. It
depends a bit on the part you have and your target life. One write every 24 hours is still under
10K writes in a reasonable lifespan for a GPSDO. It’s a rare eeprom that is rated that low.
Bob
> On May 20, 2016, at 12:27 PM, Chris Albertson <albertson.chris at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Rather then a manual button, you might always burn in the EFC value
> after finding it stable for some number of hours. Then after that
> only burn it again under some strict conditions like being stable for
> twice as many hours and the value in the EEPROM is different from what
> it needs to be, eventually getting to updates every week or two if
> needed. Actually that is my use of the Rb oscillator a portable
> reference
>
>> Another use case for this GPS discipline module is to use it to figure out the correct tuning value for a particular oscillator, then unplug it and use the DOS software to commit that value to EEPROM (multiplying the logged value by 4 to make up for the resolution reduction). Having done that, you now have a portable calibrated reference. From what I can tell the holdover performance of the 5680A is particularly good - exactly why they made them, in fact. If I had just one more input on the controller, I might have added a “commit” button that would send the EEPROM burn command on demand with the current EFC value (the controller is almost out of flash space, though, so that’s an issue).
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