[time-nuts] Of rubidium life and piggy-bank anemia....

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Sat Dec 1 05:17:35 EST 2007


In message <475132FE.5080502 at xtra.co.nz>, Bruce Griffiths writes:
>Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

>You still dont need a dedicated time count latch for each channel.
>A pair of time count latches should suffice (one for each
>counter/synchroniser clock transition polarity) plus a flag bit for each
>channel.
>Latch the flag bits and the count in both sets of latches.

Nice theory, but if you try to compare say, to GPS receivers which
are very good, that doesn't work.

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