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On Mon, 7 May 2012, Ed W wrote:
Hi, I'm getting very decent results with chrony and a usb gps. According to
the statistics the std dev is around 1ms, which I might hope is slightly too
high and that as low as 0.5ms is feasible? I think that this might indicate
that we can do better measuring the arrival time of the $ in the NMEA
sentence, but now I need to collect some evidence for that
Wwhich gps card? The evidence I have seen is that the sentences have larger
jitter than that, and comments in the ntp newsgroup suggest it is more like
10s of ms variation. Ie, the gps chipset makes no effort to make sure that the
sentence come out with any specific delay from the seconds turnover.
Use the PPS.
So my theory is that gpsd is measuring the timestamp of the end of the ZDA
sentence (and working that back to get the initial timestamp) and this gives
an additional 0.5-1ms jitter that might not be there if we measured the
timestamp of the initial $. If so then I might expect to see a jitter
distribution which is positively skewed (every time the last character drops
into a later 1ms read)
Can someone give some guidance on the correct statistics to plot to
investigate this further? I'm a little unsure on how to interpret the stats
in /var/log/statistics.log also /var/log/tracking.log seems interesting?
On a related note, did anyone ever try and improve the time accuracy of USB
serial reading by noting that serial jitter is lower than USB jitter and
trying to interpolate character arrival time vs USB timestamps to try and
figure out a kind of subsample accuracy? ie every time you read from the USB,
note the timestamp and how many characters read - given that the usb freq
isn't the same as the serial freq we might be able to improve our estimate of
the exact time the intial $ character was emitted?
Thanks
Ed W
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