Yes, you can think of the lower bits the frame number and the upper bits the 
number of overflows.

There isn’t any reason to interpret it as anything other than a 64-bit integer 
nor to specify the division.

—scott

> On Jan 5, 2017, at 10:35 PM, Guy Harris <g...@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> 
> On Jan 5, 2017, at 10:11 PM, Scott Deandrea <sdeand...@apple.com> wrote:
> 
>> An interrupt is generated when the frame number rolls over and we use this 
>> to increment the upper bits so the frame number can grow beyond 11 bits.  
>> This allows software consuming the frame number not to worry about the frame 
>> wrap when scheduling isochronous I/O.
> 
> So the lower 11 bits are the frame number and the upper bits are, in effect, 
> a count of frame number overflows.
> 
> Is there any reason to interpret it as anything other than a 64-bit integer, 
> or to specify that division in the spec for the format?

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