[time-nuts] looking for low-power system for gps ntp timekeeping
Hal Murray
hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Fri Jul 5 20:53:52 UTC 2013
tshoppa at gmail.com said:
> I still don't trust USB for precise PPS timing but folks could convince me
> different. Doubt GPIO14 would get there either but I could be educated there
> too.
USB is probably good enough for ms level timing.
I haven't looked carefully at the details of the chips used in any of the
boards discussed recently.
Several years ago, I worked with ARM SOCs. These were the ones designed to
run out of on-chip RAM and flash rather than external memory. The limitation
was pins. The chips had more IO devices than there were pins for. Each pin
had 2 or 3 possible uses. If you were considering using a chip, you had to
do more than just check the summary info sheet to make sure in had enough
timers, UARTs and whatever you needed. You also had to make sure that you
could find a pinout assignment that wouldn't conflict.
With that in mind, there are two possible ways to get PPS timing into one of
those chips.
1) You could get an interrupt on a GPIO pin and save the time, just like the
traditional PPS on a modem control signal.
2) You could find an unused GPIO pin that is connected to a previously unused
counter/timer and set things up to latch the count when the level changes.
...
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