[time-nuts] Precision PC timing [was TEC party file format?]
Scott Newell
newell at cei.net
Wed Jun 29 19:19:20 UTC 2011
At 02:14 PM 6/29/2011, Tom Van Baak wrote:
>Out of curiosity, if anyone on the list has pointer to papers that
>show actual measurements of desktop systems used as precise
>timing devices let me know. Not external boxes or PCI cards, but
>using the OS itself as a timer. I'm sure with care 1 us or even
>100 ns is possible. For example, how accurate is the best NTP
>system? But this is still a thousand times more jitter than plain
>logic circuits and a million times worse than specialized TIC's.
>
>Reply off-line, I know this is getting very off-topic.
Please don't take that off-line! I'd say this is pretty on-topic for
time-nuts. Maybe it just needs a different subject line.
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newell N5TNL
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