Hi Harry -

Actually, the name `tick_rate


On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 5:49 AM, Harry Zhang <zhang...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Marcus,
>     Thank you for your reply.
>     I'm confused about two concepts. Referring to the file time_spec.hpp
> in UHD, fractional sec is calculated according to the parameter ticks and
> tick_rate. So I think the time granularity is  '1/tick_rate'  which is
> 0.1us using 10Mhz clock. But for the timestamp of sample stream, the
> granularity is the  sample duration. Is it correct?
>
> Best,
> Harry
>
>  2013/11/26 20:12, Marcus Müller wrote:
>
>> Hi Harry,
>>
>> as far as I know, the granularity of a time stamp is the sample duration
>> at the downsampled side.
>> As for the 10MHz: The 10MHz clock is used to derive different other
>> clocks, especially the rx ADC and tx DAC clocks, which are an order of
>> magnitude higher; bear in mind that when you request e.g. "5MHz samle rate"
>> you still get the 100MHz* samples of the ADC, but downsampled by a factor
>> of 20.
>>
>> Please also bear in mind that due to physics, processing etc the
>> timestamp of the rx side is delayed to the actual reception of "that
>> sample", and that this delay is largely constant when receiving using the
>> same settings, but my change based on sampling rate and other factors.
>>
>> Greetings
>> Marcus
>>
>> *for USRP2 arch, if I remember correctly.
>> On 26.11.2013 13:04, Harry Zhang wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> Since we can get receive time of rx_stream's first sample via rx tags, I
>>> have two questions about the time granularity. Given the internal clock
>>> is 10Mhz, is the time granularity 0.1us? The fractional second is stored
>>> double type. Does it mean the last digits of the fractional sec are
>>> invalid?
>>>
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