Jim Lux:
If you pick the right USRP models, you can lock the sampling clocks
together or distribute the clock.  I don't know if that distribution is
sufficiently high quality for time-nuts kinds of applications.

A bit of extra detail related to this but not reported in print... The N210 has 
two means of locking the sampling clocks of two SDR units together. First, a 10 
MHz reference signal can be split and input into the two units' reference 
ports. Second, a "MIMO link" can be made between the two units with a SFP-style 
"direct-attach" cable. I don't know the details of this digital link, but it 
supports data transfer (so only one of the two SDR units requires an Ethernet 
connection) and reference frequency/time transfer.

Is the digital MIMO-link method any worse than the analog splitter method? Over 
short averaging intervals (1 us through ~30 us), we resolved no degradation in 
a 1-channel measurement. This is consistent with the advertised bandwidth of 
the PLL ~3 kHz. Over intervals 1 ms through 10 ms, the MIMO-link reference 
method resulted in about a factor-of-2 worse time deviation (in this test, the 
NCO was turned for a heterodyne frequency of approximately 8 Hz, which also 
leads to an oscillation peak in this range). Beyond 10 ms, both methods showed 
the same ~150 fs flicker floor that we've attributed to the ADC aperture jitter.

Finally, the SDR also has a PPS input, which can be used to "name" a 100 MHz 
master clock edge as an epoch (with 10 ns resolution). Although I didn't test 
this, I think this epoch can be synchronized over the MIMO link.

Best wishes,
-js
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