Re: [time] GPS or CDMA Time servers

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Author: Chris Kuethe
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To: Brandon West
CC: timekeepers
Subject: Re: [time] GPS or CDMA Time servers
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Brandon West <brandon@???> wrote:
> I wanted to thank everyone who responded, I really appreciate the
> warmness and how welcome I feel being part of the pool. I think that
> Soekris box is a little more home brew than I'd really like to go. It
> looks like an excellent project. For now I have a Tyan 1U server with
> both serial ports and USB and I intend to employ that for the time
> being. I did find something really cool though, if I wanted to move to
> a low power dedicated box.


The soekris works really well, actually. Mine stays within a few usec
of "on time" - stupid pee-cee architecture.

I wish that I could get a nice PCI gps card... with PPS. I know about
the one from Commel/Liantec, but it doesn't do PPS.

> http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/embedded/artigo/index.jsp


That looks a lot like the brains of a symmetricom... i'm not keen on
having a fan in there.

> AFAIK it lacks a serial port. I wonder if that would be detrimental to
> combining it with a GPS-18LVC?


RTFM says there is a com port header on the board. They just didn't
bring it out on a DB9

CK

-- 
GDB has a 'break' feature; why doesn't it have 'fix' too?
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