NTPsec leap second experience

Hal Murray hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Sun Jan 8 04:42:34 UTC 2017


esr at thyrsus.com said:
> Thanks, I'll read those.  Actually, re-read the first and read the second. 

The PID page has a lot of non-math explanations.  It might work better to 
scan it first.


As background technology in this area, there are also DLLs - delay locked 
loops.  Some FPGAs use them instead of PLLs.  It avoids analog logic at the 
cost of digital logic and digital logic is what FPGAs are good at.  What you 
want is a negative delay to undo collected delays in the system.  With a 
periodic signal (aka clock) you can get a delay of -x by delaying a whole 
cycle less x.  You can get a long delay with a chain of buffers and a 
multiplexer to select the right tap.

Delay-locked loop
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay-locked_loop


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