Dan, I wrote a PC-based time-stamping counter (TSC) tool that uses a serial port and QueryPerformanceCounter:
www.leapsecond.com/tools/pctsc.exe (Win32) www.leapsecond.com/tools/pctsc.c (source) Give it a try. /tvb ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Kemppainen" <d...@irtelemetrics.com> To: <time-nuts@febo.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2018 6:59 AM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Cheap jitter measurements Hi, Don't know how good they are, but there are two functions in the kernel32 lib in windows that are related to a cpu performance counter, QueryPerformanceCounter and QueryPerformanceFrequency. (Maybe Linux has similar?) Anyway, on most systems the frequency reported is the raw cpu clock. (Couple of Ghz Range numbers, My current system is reporting 3,320,458 Hz, windows7.) Supposedly these are low latency functions. It may not offer a perfect solution, but at least it gives you 'low latency' access to a high speed counter. Maybe it's possible to timestamp incoming PPS pulses with this (assuming they're triggering an interrupt), and learn something neat. Some of this is subject to change with windows versions: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dn553408(v=vs.85).aspx Dan On 4/10/2018 8:01 AM, time-nuts-requ...@febo.com wrote: > kb...@n1k.org said: >> The kernel clock comes from the CPU clock. That CPU clock is phase locked to >> a crystal. If you have a CPU that is driven by a VCXO that is a*very* >> unusual CPU board. The crystal runs at an arbitrary frequency. That gives >> you edges that are unlikely to happen ���right on the second���. > I was assuming the CPU clock was fast enough that reading a cycle-count > register and converting to ns would be within a ns which is the resolution of > the clock. > > That's obviously not true for low end SOC type setups. A Pi-1 runs at 700 > MHz. The Pi 3 is up to 1.4 GHz. > > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.