On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 09:57:53AM +0100, Philipp Zabel wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 11.03.2015, 18:21 -0700 schrieb Stephen Boyd:
> [...]
> > Why does Philipp like 110Hz the most? Where is the desire for that rate
> > coming from?
> >
> > > And the lower
> > > abs(1 / 110 - 1 / r) the better.
> >
> > Similarly, where is this requirement coming from? Some datasheet? Or is
> > it just some arbitrary decision we've made that may not hold true for
> > all consumers?
It's not comming from a datasheet. But that's what I guess is the right
metric for quite some cases. E.g. an UART sample rate and I also
wouldn't be surprised if Philipp's panel example would call for this
metric, too.
For an UART running with say 38400 Bd you want to sample with a freqency
of 38400 Hz (not considering oversampling, but that is only a factor
that doesn't makes my reasoning wrong). If you now consider 38401 Hz and
38399 Hz the respective deltas are 1 Hz. But if you look at the time
between two samples we have:
38401 Hz -> 26.04098852 us -> delta: 0.6781507 ns
38400 Hz -> 26.04166667 us
38399 Hz -> 26.04234485 us -> delta: 0.6781861 ns
So with 38401 it takes a little longer until the slightly deviating rate
results in sampling the wrong bit.
> In this use case, the driver doesn't want the pixel clock to stay below
> a hard frequency limit, but to get as close as possible to the target
> frequency, either above or below, so the relative error to the nominal
> panel refresh rate stays as small as possible. Thus for a fictional
> target rate of 110 Hz, I'd like to minimize abs((round_rate / 110) - 1).
Note that minimizing
abs((round_rate / 110) - 1)
is equivalent to minimizing
abs(round_rate - 110)
.
Best regards
Uwe
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