Are you sure you're setting the device time correctly? 2.5ms offset is
definitely much much worse than what to devices that should have the
same device time should exhibit. So:
How are you setting the device time?

Best regards,
Marcus

On 04/21/2016 08:59 PM, Michael Skaggs wrote:
> 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]
> <mailto:[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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