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In message <[email protected]>, Mike Cook writes:

>> I'm using a soekris net4501 that I hacked according to
>> http://www.febo.com/time-freq/ntp/soekris/

>> Recenlty I felt the need to add hardware sawtooth correction.

For the net4501 that is probably a bad idea.

When you do the sawtooth correction in software, the hw-component
acts as a jitter to smooth out the net4501's ~120nsec timestamping
window.

Without this jitter, you will have the timestamps sit in the same
window for long periods of a time and then suddenly switch to to
the neighboring window rather rapidly.

With the jitter the switch gets "smeared" out over a longer
period of time, which is a more sensible input to a PLL.

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