Re: [casper] ROACH + BORPH time-of-day

2009-12-22 Thread Tom Downes
I noticed that message, but I thought you meant "ntpdate" instead of "ntpd" because you mentioned it in the context of boot-up. It sounds like just what we need. I'll work out a plan with my co-workers for updating the board and contact you if I run into problems with ntpd. Thanks! And to other

Re: [casper] ROACH + BORPH time-of-day

2009-12-22 Thread Jason Manley
Hi Tom We use the exact same procedure that you outline below to timestamp our data and ran into the same problem. It turned out to be due to integer rounding in Uboot's clock configuration. Please update your uboot and kernel to the newest versions. I sent around an email on 01 December

Re: [casper] ROACH + BORPH time-of-day

2009-12-22 Thread Andrew Lutomirski
I haven't tried it on the ROACH, but we've had great results (i.e. much better than 1 ms) with the IEEE Precision Time Protocol (using ptpd, from ptpd.sourceforge.net). You might want to give that a try before you resort to fancier solutions. --Andy On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Tom Downes w

Re: [casper] ROACH + BORPH time-of-day

2009-12-22 Thread Dan Werthimer
Hi Tom We use hardware time tagging in some of the spectrometers we've built, accurate to a few nS, described below: We've implemented time tagging in spectrometers and correlators (we can send you some spectrometer designs if you want), by running the ADC sample clock from a synthesizer loc

[casper] ROACH + BORPH time-of-day

2009-12-22 Thread Tom Downes
Hello: I am new to the list and to ROACH boards so apologies in advance if this question is misdirected. I am working at Caltech on using a ROACH(1) board running BORPH via USB. Specifically debian/etch with kernel 2.6.25-svn1867-dirty1. Our application requires timestamping FFT data to precisi