Re: [time-nuts] Logging the grid frequency....

2013-02-28 Thread Chris Albertson
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 6:08 AM, Daniel Mendes wrote: > > Thanks for all the comments about this topic. They are much appreciated. > > About the difficulty of measuring every cycle with a conventional counter... > thanks for that info, seems that i´ll have to make my own measurement > hardware. I

Re: [time-nuts] Logging the grid frequency....

2013-02-28 Thread Daniel Mendes
Ok, it´s a relative measurement... now I understand your data. Thank you. Daniel Em 28/02/2013 20:03, Tom Van Baak (lab) escreveu: Yes, correct, sometimes the power line goes faster than 60 Hz in which case the zero-crossings occur before you "expect them"; so time error can be negative, on

Re: [time-nuts] GPSDO with a RaspberryPi

2013-02-28 Thread Azelio Boriani
Javier: the 24bit counter is clocked only by the 10MHz and is running continuously, the PPS is the most important signal. The LSClock is the clock for the latch: this latch has to be clocked to shift out its content serially and has to be loaded with the PPS from the GPS (PPSReference). I see no ot

Re: [time-nuts] Logging the grid frequency....

2013-02-28 Thread Tom Van Baak (lab)
Yes, correct, sometimes the power line goes faster than 60 Hz in which case the zero-crossings occur before you "expect them"; so time error can be negative, on average, as often as it is positive. You cannot design a PLL that always expects phase error to be unidirectional. The data I provided

Re: [time-nuts] Logging the grid frequency....

2013-02-28 Thread Daniel Mendes
Em 28/02/2013 13:37, Tom Van Baak escreveu: Daniel, I've placed two log files for you under http://leapsecond.com/pages/mains/ log1932.dat.gz -- timing of every 60 Hz zero-crossing (1.296 million samples) log97312.dat.gz -- timing of every 60th zero-crossing (21.6 thousand samples) Each repres

Re: [time-nuts] Logging the grid frequency....

2013-02-28 Thread Dan Kemppainen
On 2/28/2013 11:37 AM, time-nuts-requ...@febo.com wrote: About the difficulty of measuring every cycle with a conventional counter... thanks for that info, seems that i?ll have to make my own measurement hardware. I liked the idea of a time stamping counter it?s very doable in a FPGA:) At

Re: [time-nuts] Logging the grid frequency....

2013-02-28 Thread Tom Van Baak
Daniel, I've placed two log files for you under http://leapsecond.com/pages/mains/ log1932.dat.gz -- timing of every 60 Hz zero-crossing (1.296 million samples) log97312.dat.gz -- timing of every 60th zero-crossing (21.6 thousand samples) Each represents 6 hours of collection time. Units are sec

Re: [time-nuts] GPSDO with a RaspberryPi

2013-02-28 Thread Javier Serrano
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 1:26 AM, Azelio Boriani wrote: > First try at a simple GPSDO for the RaspberryPi. See here: > http://www.c-c-i.com/exchange/for the file PiAutoTIC1.zip Nice project Azelio! Here are a few comments after a cursory look at the VHDL: - Gated clocks (i.e. LSClock) are in

Re: [time-nuts] Logging the grid frequency....

2013-02-28 Thread Daniel Mendes
Thanks for all the comments about this topic. They are much appreciated. About the difficulty of measuring every cycle with a conventional counter... thanks for that info, seems that i´ll have to make my own measurement hardware. I liked the idea of a time stamping counter it´s very doabl

Re: [time-nuts] GPSDO with a RaspberryPi

2013-02-28 Thread Azelio Boriani
The 24bit counter counts up to 999 then is reset to 0 to get a PPS out of a 10MHz clock. The most significant bit is high from 0x80 to 0x98967F, so that you have a 161.1392ms wide high pulse when driving the PPS output with the MSB. On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 1:28 PM, Herbert Poetzl wrote: >

Re: [time-nuts] GPSDO with a RaspberryPi

2013-02-28 Thread Herbert Poetzl
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 01:26:17AM +0100, Azelio Boriani wrote: > First try at a simple GPSDO for the RaspberryPi. See here: > http://www.c-c-i.com/exchange/ for the file PiAutoTIC1.zip > Thanks to Bob Smither for his file exchange site. Pardon my ignorance, but where does the 161ms PPS length com

Re: [time-nuts] FE-5680A DDS Board/PIC Code

2013-02-28 Thread Herbert Poetzl
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 03:49:55AM +0100, Magnus Danielson wrote: > On 02/18/2013 10:32 PM, Herbert Poetzl wrote: >> [ lot of stuff zapped ] > It would be interesting if fractional resolution of the DDS > would be developed using the PHASE interface. > As PHASE ripples, a carry needs to be sent

[time-nuts] Thunderbolt firmware to E-level ?

2013-02-28 Thread David C. Partridge
Something I saw in John Miles recent post on the TB thread leads me to ask if a regular TB can be upgraded to TB-E level firmaware, and if so is sensible to do so? Thanks Dave ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to http