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From: | Ed W |
Subject: | Re: [gpsd-dev] NMEA time calculation question |
Date: | Mon, 07 May 2012 18:41:52 +0100 |
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Hi
I think I might not be getting my point across. Assuming more like 4,800 to 38,400 baud then there should be variation of only one character arrival uncertainty to the timestamp of the start of the ZDA sentence. However the end of the sentence could have much larger jitter, up to 1ms (eg consider we read only the very last character and the rest of the buffer is empty) So my jitter is currently 1ms ish, but I believe it should be possible to reduce that to 0.5ms. Do you agree? First question though - did I correctly understand the current gpsd algorithm?
Still think I didn't explain my idea correctly. My Venus delivers characters at 9,600 baud, ie 1,200Hz, lets assume for the sake of argument that the jitter on the arrival time of each character is very low. The USB bus returns results approximately ever 1ms, but with high jitter, eg might be 1.5ms, then 0.5ms, then 1ms, etc Assuming that the USB timestamp is accurate, ie it might be 1.5ms since the last read, but we can measure that gap accurately, then we can predict how many characters should be in the buffer. Algorithm has one unknown, timestamp of first character. Number of characters in each read at 1024Hz will depend on the timestamp of the first character and the delivery rate (1,200Hz in this case). In fact if we maintain our estimate between loops it should be possible to setup a PLL which actually has quite high degree of accuracy in predicting the arrival time of each character. Remember if the assumption holds that we know the timestamp of the low frequency USB observations, then it doesn't in fact matter so much that they are at fairly random intervals, they still allow us to observe the underlying process with much higher accuracy. In fact more USB jitter is actually beneficial because it will help observe the underlying process... I'm kind of intrigued that others haven't jumped in on this - on the surface it would appear that the PPS is irrelevant for USB - we can gain far higher accuracy using a PLL and observing the NMEA data (caveat this is true only on certain chipsets, eg many Venus). Or equivalently you want a 10-20Hz PPS for usb? Ed W |
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