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From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: "Ron Frazier (NTP)" <timekeepingntplist@techstarship.com>
Cc: thumbgps-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net
Subject: Re: [Thumbgps-devel] [gpsd-dev] PPS over USB
Date: Sun, 6 May 2012 18:09:25 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120506220925.GF14699@thyrsus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FA13959.9050405@techstarship.com>

Ron Frazier (NTP) <timekeepingntplist@techstarship.com>:
> Just wondering.  On the USB + PPS + PL2303 concept, has the long
> term variation that has been observed in NMEA data in other similar
> units without PPS been accounted for?

No.  Hal Murray and I studied this extensively and were unable to
get a handle on the cause.

>                                      I have personally observed a
> variation in NMEA data on my Globalsat Sirf III USB device of up to
> +/- 70 ms over several days.  Will having the PPS coming though USB
> solve that problem?

Yes.  The measured jitter of 1PPS over PL2303 USB is 0.5 milliseconds.
-- 
		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-05-06 22:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20120501151435.4a6a5373.gem@rellim.com>
2012-05-01 22:16 ` [Thumbgps-devel] Fwd: " Dave Taht
2012-05-02  1:40 ` [Thumbgps-devel] " Dave Taht
2012-05-02  3:07   ` Jim Thompson
2012-05-02  3:33   ` Eric S. Raymond
2012-05-02  7:58     ` Hal Murray
2012-05-06 21:28       ` Eric S. Raymond
2012-05-02 11:09     ` tz
     [not found]       ` <20120502131310.7dd7f799.gem@rellim.com>
2012-05-02 20:33         ` tz
2012-05-02 21:19         ` Hal Murray
2012-05-02 21:43           ` tz
2012-05-02 13:40     ` Ron Frazier (NTP)
     [not found]       ` <20120502124227.28ef9fa6.gem@rellim.com>
2012-05-03  4:07         ` Ron Frazier (NTP)
2012-05-06 22:09       ` Eric S. Raymond [this message]
     [not found] ` <4FA43068.2080606@wildgooses.com>
     [not found]   ` <20120504160455.4514ac26.gem@rellim.com>
     [not found]     ` <20120506214138.GB14699@thyrsus.com>
     [not found]       ` <4FA6F396.70307@tmsw.no>
     [not found]         ` <4FA7BDF1.7030708@wildgooses.com>
     [not found]           ` <4FA7CFB2.9080807@tmsw.no>
     [not found]             ` <4FA7E197.9010902@wildgooses.com>
     [not found]               ` <20120507205843.GA21259@thyrsus.com>
2012-05-07 21:14                 ` Dave Taht
2012-05-07 21:52                   ` Eric S. Raymond

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