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<h3>PPS Clock Discipline</h3>
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<h4>Synopsis</h4>
Address: 127.127.22.<i>u</i> <br>
Reference ID: <tt>PPS</tt> <br>
Driver ID: <tt>PPS</tt> <br>
Serial or Parallel Port: <tt>/dev/pps<i>u</i></tt> <br>
Requires: PPSAPI interface
<p>Note: This driver supersedes an older one of the same name. The
older driver operated with several somewhat archaic signal
interface devices, required intricate configuration and was poorly
documented. This driver operates only with the PPSAPI interface
proposed as an IETF standard. Note also that the <tt>pps</tt>
configuration command has been obsoleted by this driver.</p>
<h4>Description</h4>
<p>This driver furnishes an interface for the pulse-per-second
(PPS) produced by a cesium clock, radio clock or related equipment.
It can be used to augment the serial timecode generated by a GPS
receiver, for example. It can be used to remove accumulated jitter
and re-time a secondary server when synchronized to a primary
server over a congested, wide-area network and before
redistributing the time to local clients. The driver includes
extensive signal sanity checks and grooming algorithms. A range
gate and frequency discriminator reject noise and signals with
incorrect frequency. A multiple-stage median filter rejects jitter
due to hardware interrupt and operating system latencies. A
trimmed-mean algorithm determines the best time samples. With
typical workstations and processing loads, the incidental jitter
can be reduced to less than a microsecond.</p>
<p>While this driver can discipline the time and frequency relative
to the PPS source, it cannot number the seconds. For this purpose a
auxiliary source is required, ordinarily a radio clock operated as
a primary reference (stratum 1) source; however, another NTP time
server can be used as well. For this purpose, the auxiliary source
is marked as the prefer peer, as described in the <a href=
"prefer.htm">Mitigation Rules and the <tt>prefer</tt> Keyword</a>
page.</p>
<p>The driver requires the PPSAPI interface<sup>1</sup>, which is a
proposed IETF standard. The interface consists of the <tt>
timepps.h</tt> header file and associated kernel support. Support
for this interface is included in current versions of FreeBSD and
Linux and proprietary versions for Digital/Compaq Tru64 (Alpha),
Sun Solaris and Sun SunOS. See the <a href="pps.htm">
Pulse-per-second (PPS) Signal Interfacing</a> page for further
information.</p>
<p>The PPS source can be connected via a serial or parallel port,
depending on the hardware and operating system. The port can be
dedicated to the PPS source or shared with another device. A radio
clock is usually connected via a serial port and the PPS source
connected via a level converter to the data carrier detect (DCD)
pin (DB-9 pin 1, DB-25 pin 8) of the same connector. In some
systems where a parallel port and driver are available, the PPS
signal can be connected directly to the ACK pin (pin 10) of the
connector. Whether the PPS signal is connected via a dedicated port
or shared with another device, the driver opens the device <tt>
/dev/pps%d</tt>, where <tt>%d</tt> is the unit number. As with
other drivers, links can be used to redirect the logical name to
the actual physical device.</p>
<p>The driver normally operates like any other driver and uses the
same mitigation algorithms and PLL/FLL clock discipline
incorporated in the daemon. If kernel PLL/FLL support is available,
the kernel PLL/FLL clock discipline is used instead. The default
behavior is not to use the kernel PPS clock discipline, even if
present. This driver incorporates a good deal of signal processing
to reduce jitter using the median filter and trimmed average
algorithms in the driver interface. As the result, performance with
minpoll and maxpoll configured at the minimum 4 (16s) is generally
better than the kernel PPS clock discipline. However, fudge flag 3
can be used to enable this discipline if necessary.</p>
<p>Note that the PPS source is considered reachable only if the
auxiliary source is the prefer peer, is reachable and is selected
to discipline the system clock. The stratum assigned to the PPS
source is automatically determined. If the auxiliary source is
unreachable or inoperative, the stratum is set to 16; otherwise it
is set to match the stratum of the auxiliary source. Since the
stratum is determined dynamically, it is not possible to assign
another stratum using the <tt>fudge</tt> command as in other
drivers.</p>
<h4>Fudge Factors</h4>
<dl>
<dt><tt>time1 <i>time</i></tt></dt>
<dd>Specifies the time offset calibration factor, in seconds and
fraction, with default 0.0.dd&gt;</dd>
<dt><tt>time2 <i>time</i></tt></dt>
<dd>Not used by this driver.</dd>
<dt><tt>stratum <i>number</i></tt></dt>
<dd>Specifies the driver stratum, in decimal from 0 to 15, with
default 0.</dd>
<dt><tt>refid <i>string</i></tt></dt>
<dd>Specifies the driver reference identifier, an ASCII string from
one to four characters, with default <tt>PPS</tt>.</dd>
<dt><tt>flag1 0 | 1</tt></dt>
<dd>Not used by this driver.</dd>
<dt><tt>flag2 0 | 1</tt></dt>
<dd>Specifies the PPS signal on-time edge: 0 for assert (default),
1 for clear.</dd>
<dt><tt>flag3 0 | 1</tt></dt>
<dd>Controls the kernel PPS discipline: 0 for disable (default), 1
for enable.</dd>
<dt><tt>flag4 0 | 1</tt></dt>
<dd>Not used by this driver.</dd>
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<p>Additional Information</p>
<p><a href="refclock.htm">Reference Clock Drivers</a></p>
<p>Reference</p>
<ol>
<li>Mogul, J., D. Mills, J. Brittenson, J. Stone and U. Windl.
Pulse-per-second API for Unix-like operating systems, version 1.
Request for Comments RFC-2783, Internet Engineering Task Force,
March 2000, 31 pp.</li>
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<address><a href="mailto:mills@udel.edu">David L. Mills
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