In message <20090518081256.97f2bb...@ip-64-139-1-69.sjc.megapath.net>, Hal Murr
ay writes:

>I was going to put the Unix clock in the FPGA.  It's a pair of 32 bit words.  
>The high word is seconds since some magic date/time.  The low word is 
>nano-seconds within this second.

Please, will you guys stop reinventing the octagonal wheel, and at least
look at the blueprint for the round wheel ?

        http://phk.freebsd.dk/pubs/timecounter.pdf

If there is anything you don't understand or wants explained in that paper,
by all means ask!

-- 
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FreeBSD committer       | BSD since 4.3-tahoe    
Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.

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