On Tue, 23 Aug 2016 07:11:23 +0000
"STR ." <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Unless time-nuts levels of precision/accuracy are required, an APU is good
> > enough and an easy solution. If you go for time-nuts levels, then I would
> > question the use > of ethernet long before I question the hardware platform.
>
> Not even ethernet with hardware PTP implementations, admittedly I haven't
> seen a NIC for sale with it?
Most GBit NIC have hardware timestamping these days. Though I don't know
if whether the APU NICs do.
But even with hardware timestamping, you will not get to time-nuts levels,
which are lower than you think :-)
With standard networking equipment, you will not get below a 1-100us
uncertainty. Although this is quite good and usually enough for most
people, it's not time-nuts. A time-nuts strives for low-ns or even sub-ns
level of synchronization. With the proper equipment you can achieve
better than 10ps within a building.
Attila Kinali
--
It is upon moral qualities that a society is ultimately founded. All
the prosperity and technological sophistication in the world is of no
use without that foundation.
-- Miss Matheson, The Diamond Age, Neil Stephenson
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