Re: [time-nuts] teensy as time capture device

2015-09-25 Thread Jim Lux
On 9/24/15 11:02 AM, Hal Murray wrote: xne...@luna.dyndns.dk said: External Oscillator (the system clock clock) , or External Timer clock (limited to system clock/4) That sounds like they are running the external signal through a synchronizer and then doing all the logic on the system clock.

Re: [time-nuts] teensy as time capture device

2015-09-24 Thread Chris Caudle
On Thu, September 24, 2015 7:30 am, Jim Lux wrote: > What would be interesting is if there's a pin on the Arduino/Teensy that > you could feed a high quality oscillator to, and then do counting with > that. The K20 microcontroller has a mindbendingly large number of > features and alternate pin fu

Re: [time-nuts] teensy as time capture device

2015-09-24 Thread Jim Lux
On 9/24/15 7:13 AM, cfo wrote: On Thu, 24 Sep 2015 05:30:35 -0700, Jim Lux wrote: What would be interesting is if there's a pin on the Arduino/Teensy that you could feed a high quality oscillator to, and then do counting with that. The K20 microcontroller has a mindbendingly large number of

Re: [time-nuts] teensy as time capture device

2015-09-24 Thread Hal Murray
xne...@luna.dyndns.dk said: > External Oscillator (the system clock clock) , or External Timer clock > (limited to system clock/4) That sounds like they are running the external signal through a synchronizer and then doing all the logic on the system clock. That would add a lot of high frequ

Re: [time-nuts] teensy as time capture device

2015-09-24 Thread cfo
On Thu, 24 Sep 2015 05:30:35 -0700, Jim Lux wrote: > > What would be interesting is if there's a pin on the Arduino/Teensy that > you could feed a high quality oscillator to, and then do counting with > that. The K20 microcontroller has a mindbendingly large number of > features and alternate p

Re: [time-nuts] teensy as time capture device

2015-09-24 Thread Jim Lux
On 9/23/15 10:08 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message <5602f65b.6050...@earthlink.net>, Jim Lux writes: I've got a teensy3.1 hooked up to a 33120 function generator (not exactly a super stable device) and generating period data for a 1 Hz square wave. That is actually a particular

Re: [time-nuts] teensy as time capture device

2015-09-23 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <5602f65b.6050...@earthlink.net>, Jim Lux writes: >I've got a teensy3.1 hooked up to a 33120 function generator (not >exactly a super stable device) and generating period data for a 1 Hz >square wave. That is actually a particularly bad way of doing it, because the 33120 wil

[time-nuts] teensy as time capture device

2015-09-23 Thread Jim Lux
I've got a teensy3.1 hooked up to a 33120 function generator (not exactly a super stable device) and generating period data for a 1 Hz square wave. The period is in "ticks" of the 48 MHz clock, so my thinking is that if I hook up a good 1pps, what I'm really measuring is the frequency of the