USB-C will offer a number of things that I believe will be of benefit to time nuts everywhere:
1) High current 5V up to 3A on every port 2) High voltage/current up to 20V/5A optionally on every port - sufficient to power some rubidium oscillators natively, and a small boost to get the rest of them. 3) a native UART channel - no more freaky USB interrupts/polling to get your pulses 4) single omnipurpose connector ends with no insertion dependencies 5) Better, simpler device enumeration - while I haven't seen how it addresses this personally, the stuff i have read is very promising. Due to the switched controller nature of the interface, you should have less nonstandard crap that may cause your computer to hang or other issues related to drivers. The controller arbitrates a lot more setup details, and the number of those on the market will be limited compared to usb peripheral ICs. This may be off topic from your off topic, but it seemed a good opportunity to share this info. NS9 _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
