Re: [casper] seeking high accuracy GPS disciplined time/frequency standards ?

2019-03-07 Thread Randall Wayth
Hi Dan, Likewise, we have one of these for MWA and assorted peripheral systems: https://www.thinksrs.com/products/fs725.html In our case, it is disciplined by the observatory maser, but could be disciplined by a GPS clock also. Cheers, Randall A/Prof Randall Wayth ICRAR | Curtin Institute of

Re: [casper] SNAP board with a 410T FPGA does not program

2019-03-07 Thread Jack Hickish
Hi Xavier, On Thu, 7 Mar 2019 at 15:56, Xavier Bosch wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have a SNAP + Rpi3 board with a 410T FPGA instead of a 160T > > TL;DR: When I do fpga.listdev() I get the correct list of registers but > when I try to read or write the registers I always get an error, no matter >

[casper] SNAP board with a 410T FPGA does not program

2019-03-07 Thread Xavier Bosch
Hi everyone, I have a SNAP + Rpi3 board with a 410T FPGA instead of a 160T TL;DR: When I do fpga.listdev() I get the correct list of registers but when I try to read or write the registers I always get an error, no matter what I do. I suspect that the RPi parses the BOF and gets the right memory

Re: [casper] seeking high accuracy GPS disciplined time/frequency standards ?

2019-03-07 Thread Gary, Dale E.
Hi Dan, We use a PRS10 Rubidium clock from Stanford Research Systems ( https://www.thinksrs.com/products/prs10.html). This takes a 1 pps from a GPS clock, and produces a highly accurate (and stable) 10 MHz signal, which we use to lock all of our time and frequency sources. You can read about

[casper] seeking high accuracy GPS disciplined time/frequency standards ?

2019-03-07 Thread Dan Werthimer
in a somewhat related question. can anybody give us advice about GPS disciplined oscillators time/freq standards that are very accurate wrt UTC? we don't want to buy a hydrogen maser (too pricy). we have been looking at a company called endrun technologies that sell time/freq standards accurate

[casper] Re: BSP request from INAF

2019-03-07 Thread Adam Isaacson
Hi Alex and SKARAB casperites, 1) Firstly, I see some references to the old wiki in these threads. I suggest go to https://casper.berkeley.edu and then click on "Hardware" ( https://casper.berkeley.edu/index.php/hardware/). Once you do that click on

Re: [casper] Timestamp in ROACH2 and PTP

2019-03-07 Thread John Ford
Hi Franco. We have normally time-stamped the data using a hardware 1 Pulse per Second digital input as a sync source, which gives us << 1 microsecond timing precision. PTP requires hardware support in the LAN hardware, and I don't recall for sure but I don't think it's in the PHY/MAC on the PPC,

[casper] Re: BSP request from INAF

2019-03-07 Thread Wesley New
Hi Alex, I have CCed the mailing list so that this information will be out in the wild. Firstly, here is a link to the SKARAB page on the wiki. It has all the resources that one would need for the SKARABs. https://casper.ssl.berkeley.edu/wiki/SKARAB To use the CASPER tools, the BSP would need to

Re: [casper] Timestamp in ROACH2 and PTP

2019-03-07 Thread Michael Inggs
Hi Franco Simon Lewis in the RRSG at UCT has White Rabbit hardware and expertise (PhD incubating). Snag is that it runs on 1GE Fibre. We also have a GPS version. The former gives sub ns precision, the latter about 4 ns rms. Send me a message off line and I can link you. We also have a scheme of