Problem with GPSD refclock

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Hal!

On Thu, 26 Jan 2017 10:46:20 -0800
Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net> wrote:

> richw at richw.org said:
> > When I first wired up a GPS in 2009 for use as an NTP refclock, my
> > understanding was that USB-based devices (including "serial port"
> > PCIe cards which really used USB technology under the hood) were
> > simply not capable of the exact timing necessary to handle a PPS
> > signal from a GPS unit.  
> 
> I've never seen a PCI serial card that used USB.  (But there is a lot
> of the world I haven't seen.)

Check out the M.2 standard.  PCIe + USB on one connector:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.2

There are some GPS that use that connector.

But that is side-by-side PCIe and USB, not consecutive.  So not what
OP talked about.

> PPS over USB adds roughly 1 ms of noise/jitter.  It works, just not
> as well as a real serial port.

Careful there.  PPS over USB 2.0 adds about 250 micro Seconds of noise
and jitter.  USB 1.0 is worse.  USB 2.0 graphs here:

	https://pi.rellim.com/day/

I rebooted yesterday, give it a day or two to reconverge, then you'll see
250 micro Seconds.

RGDS
GARY
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