[time-nuts] Low cost GPS module for < 100ns timestamping error

[Bob Camp]

Hi

Well I do have those Sparc machines sitting over in the shed ….. I suspect hauling over the CRT monitor to go with it would be a bit of a pain. I doubt I would win the “low power GPSDO of the year” award with it. 

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Like it or not, once you get to 64 bit math, the “this versus that” hardware questions matter less and less on a GPSDO. The world is awash in CPU’s that will do what you need to do. The real issue is software / firmware. Since GPSDO’s were not a real big deal back in the 70’s and early 80’, there probably isn’t a lot of native GPSDO code for PDP-11’s or SPARC’s. 

Bob

On May 4, 2014, at 1:34 PM, Jim Lux <jimlux at earthlink.net> wrote:

> On 5/4/14, 10:07 AM, Bob Camp wrote:
>> Hi
>> 
>> Well some of us still have RSX-11M (and RSTS/E) code floating around …..
>> 
>> B
> 
> As do I, but the stuff I'd actually reuse is pretty OS independent (signal processing code in FORTRAN, and in reality, I'd most likely rewrite it anyway.)
> 
> I suspect you'll probably not be wanting to port something OS dependent to a SPARC to build a GPSDO...  Then again this is time-nuts, with the emphasis on "nuts".
> 
> 
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