[time-nuts] wtd: WWVB info
Bob Camp
kb8tq at n1k.org
Fri Aug 7 21:57:00 UTC 2015
Hi
> On Aug 7, 2015, at 12:05 AM, Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net> wrote:
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> kb8tq at n1k.org said:
>> A ~$30 FPGA card plus an MCU would be massive overkill. It would also be
>> fairly easy to do. A similarly priced ARM board from any of a dozen outfits
>> *might* do the trick.
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>> Could you get away without this or that? Who knows. There isn’t enough cost
>> in any of those “chunks” to really matter compared to the months of effort
>> this would take.
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> If I was worried about the "months" to get things working, I'd avoid the FPGA
> and do everything in software.
Actually the FPGA is pretty fast. I doubt it will take more than 20% of the time the
software that goes with the FPGA will take. Without the FPGA I suspect the pure
software approach will take about 4X longer than FPGA + software.
Been there done that ...
Bob
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