Aha! You were correct. I was parsing the header incorrectly. However, even
after parsing, and the more accurate values (now accurate to 10e-6), it
appears the recorded RF data sets are still are offset from each other by
an amount of nearly 2.5e-3 seconds. Any idea why this would be? It's
strange, especially considering that the are synchronized to the same PPS,
and I think the time is with reference to the pulse.

Michael

Michael Skaggs
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On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 11:57 AM, Marcus D. Leech <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 04/21/2016 11:41 AM, Michael Skaggs wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to time/sample synchronize RF recordings with two B200minis. I
>> am using the detached Metadata File Sink in GRC. Both recordings are at
>> 30MSps and both B200mini boards are synchronized to the same 1PPS signal.
>>
>> My issue is this, when I extract the data from the Metadata header file,
>> the "rx_time" value is only accurate to 10e-4 seconds (0.0001s). Which,
>> with a recording at 30MSps, this will only give me a sample alignment
>> accuracy to 10e-4(s)*30(MS/s) = 30,000 samples.
>>
>> If I'm attempting to align the two recordings by samples or time, this is
>> not nearly accurate enough. Is there a way that I can get more accuracy out
>> of my metadata header or a way that I can synchronize the recordings of
>> these B200minis?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Michael
>>
>> The precision of the timestamps from UHD should have a precision of
> whatever the master-clock is on the device--how are you interpreting
>   the rx_time tag?  It's two parts--a uint64 with the full-seconds
> portion, and a double-precision float for the fractional part.
>
>
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