Hi
From: "Bob kb8tq" <kb...@n1k.org>
What I’m suggesting is that if the hardware is very simple and very cheap,
simply put two chips on the board.
One runs at Clock A and the other runs at Clock B. At some point in the
process you move the decimated data
from B over to A and finish out all the math there ….
The hardware is simple and cheap cause it is all digital, requires no
calibrations and the same HW is capable of driving TFT, UI handling,
providing all control functionalities for input conditioning circuits, GPS
module and etc. It also provides USB interface for data exchange or remote
control. So doubling it is not a way to go if I want to keep things simple
and relatively cheap.
I think I will stay with the current plans for HW and try to handle some
troubles to GPS timing in software. I have to make initial variant of HW, so
I will be able to move on with the SW part towards useful counter. Then I
will see how well it performs and will decide if it satisfies the
requirements or I need to change something.
BTW, after quick check of the GPS module specs and OCXO's one it looks
like a very simple algorithm can be used for frequency correction. OCXO
frequency can be measured against GPS for a long enough period (some
thousands of seconds, LR algorithm can be used here also) and we have got
a correction coefficient. It can be updated at a rate of one second
(probably we do not need to do it as fast). I do not believe it can be as
simple. I feel I missed something :)…
That is one way it is done. A lot depends on the accuracy of the GPS PPS
on your module.
The module is uBlox NEO-6M, I know there is better suited for my needs
NEO-6T, but the first one was easy to get and insanely cheap. It should be
enough to start.
More or less, with a thousand second observation time you will likely get
below parts in 10^-10, but maybe not to the 1x10^-11 level.
1e-10 should satisfy my requirements. More sophisticated algorithm can be
developed and used later, if needed.
Thanks!
Oleg
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