On 04/10/2014 05:38 PM, Hal Murray wrote:
Does anybody have a favorite low-cost ARM board? I'm looking for a simple
Arduino like setup rather than something that runs Linux. The idea is to get
32 bit counters so a bunch of the recent discussion can be ingnored.
Another endorsement for a STM32 Discovery board from me. The F3 and F4
ones have plenty of peripherals to play with and they're cheap as dirt.
For a concrete example of how the kind of PPS capture that's being
discussed would pan out on STM32, here's mine:
https://github.com/mtharp/laureline-firmware/blob/master/src/ppscapture.c
The timers are 16-bit but I extend it to 64 bits in software. When the
timer rolls over I add 65536 to the software variable "mono_epoch". At
both the rollover and at the half-way mark I poll the timer-capture
peripheral to see if it captured a PPS. It's polled twice per period to
ensure that I can disambiguate whether the captured value came from the
current period or the previous one. The result is a 64-bit timestamp
from the free-running clock, and it's completely glitch-free and not
affected by interrupt latency in any way.
The same timer is also used as the base for the UTC clock, which is a
software-disciplined clock like you'd find in any OS kernel. That makes
it easy to compare the phase of the PPS captured to the nearest UTC
second and feed into the PLL. Not as interesting for a GPSDO where you
need to actually steer a hardware oscillator, but useful nonetheless.
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