[time-nuts] Windows Driver for the OCP Time Card

[Ahmad Byagowi]

Hello everyone,

I am relatively new to this forum but I certainly have enjoyed reading
random and often time related topics coming to my mailbox.
Anyways, I have been working on an open source time server (both for NTP
and PTP) as a project under OCP and it’s called TAP (time appliances
project. More on you can find on www.ocptap.com . In order to provide time
to our “time server” we came up with a PCIe card called Time Card. Time
card got a Ublox F9T GNSS connected to a Microchip SA.53 Atomic clock (so
far you have a modern GPSDO). The SA.53 provides a 10Mhz signal as well as
1PPS to an FPGA (Atrix-7). GNSS and MAC connect to the FPGA via their
serial ports as well. The FPGA connects via the PCIe bus to the system
providing a set of peripheral. GNSS and MAC serial ports as well a POSIX
clock (80bit register similar to gPTP standard) are presented to the
system. We were able to land the driver of the time card on the Linux
Kernel 5.6 onward, meaning you will the time card driver already built in
when you get any Linux (isn’t that sweet). All the source code and
schematic for the time card is available on www.timingcard.com for free.
After we announced this project, Orolia (another company) made a similar
Time Card called ART2. Then we got some other vendors making time cards as
well (did not mention their names since am not sure if they made it public
yet or not, who cares anyways).
So, now I was wondering if anyone would be interested to write a windows
driver for the time card. I am assuming it should not be that hard of a
task if you are familiar and experienced with windows drivers.
Please have look and OCPTAP and the time card page and please feel free
reach out to me if you have any questions.

Regards,
Ahmad

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Ahmad Byagowi, Ph.D., Dr. Techn., P.Eng.
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