Pulse per second

Pulse per second

A Pulse per second (PPS) is an electrical signal that very precisely indicates the start of a second. PPS signals are output by various types of precision clock, including some models of GPS receivers. Depending on the source, properly operating PPS signals have an accuracy ranging from a few nanoseconds to a few milliseconds.

Uses

PPS signals are used for precise timekeeping and time measurement. One increasingly common use is in computer timekeeping, including the NTP protocol. Because GPS is considered a stratum-0 source, a common use for the PPS signal is to connect it to a PC using a low-latency, low-jitter wire connection and allow a program to synchronize to it: this makes the PC a stratum-1 time source. Note that because the PPS signal does not specify the time, but merely the start of a second, one must combine the PPS functionality with another time source that provides the full date and time in order to ascertain the time both accurately and precisely.

ee also

* Precise Time and Time Interval (PTTI)

External links

GPS receivers that provide a PPS signal:
* [http://www.garmin.com/products/gps18oem/ Garmin GPS 18] , LVC (barewire) edition only. Offered in 1-Hz and 5-Hz formats.

Sites that describe how to use the PPS signal to set precise time on a PC:
* In OpenBSD 4.1 [http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=nmea&manpath=OpenBSD+Current the nmea(4) line discipline] can [http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=nmeaattach&manpath=OpenBSD+Current attach to a GPS timer] and optionally use the PPS signal for low jitter and high accuracy in system time and NTP time
* [http://gpsd.berlios.de/ gpsd — a GPS service daemon] , required to activate PPS signal on some devices (works in conjunction with OpenBSD's nmea line discipline if installed via ports tree and a stand-alone service daemon for other operating systems)
* [http://time.qnan.org Using a Garmin GPS 18 LVC as NTP stratum-0 on Linux 2.6]
* [http://www.david-taylor.myby.co.uk/ntp/FreeBSD-GPS-PPS.htm Adding a FreeBSD NTP server based on an GPS 18 LVC device]
* [http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2783 RFC 2783 Pulse-Per-Second API for UNIX-like Operating Systems, Version 1.0]


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