[LinuxPPS] PPS SC16IS7X2
Igor Plyatov
plyatov at gmail.com
Tue Oct 16 07:38:03 CEST 2012
Hi Nial!
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> Hi Igor,
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> > Please be aware, because you will have big jitter between real PPS
> > signal and registered event. All this problems related to sloth nature
> > of I2C bus and its kernel driver (especially if UART does not have
> > hardware IRQ line).
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> Ok. Thanks. It will still be better than just relying on the NMEA data
> though won't it?
Yes, it will be better.
But first of all you need to specify application area for the PPS
synchronization (home clock/seismology/NTP server/else).
If for example, you want to achieve some tens or hundreds microseconds
accuracy for clock, then you effort is useless with I2C.
> Thanks,
> Nial
Best regards!
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Igor Plyatov
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