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<title>RIPE NCC interface for Trimble Palisade</title>
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<h3>RIPE NCC interface for Trimble Palisade</h3>
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<img src="pic/driver43_2.jpg" alt="Trimble Acutime 2000" align="right">
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<h4>Synopsis</h4>
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Address: 127.127.43.<i>u</i> <br>
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Reference ID: <tt>RIPENCC</tt> <br>
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Driver ID: <tt>RIPENCC</tt>
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<h4>Description</h4>
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<p> This is a special driver developed to be used in conjuction with the
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RIPE NCC clock card in the RIPE NCC Test Traffic Measurements project.
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<h4>Why this driver?</h4>
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<p>
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The reason why we created a seperated driver for an antenna for which
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already a (vendor supplied) driver exist is a design decision.
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To be more specific, the standard Trimble interface uses a 12 pin
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connector. The cable sold by Trimble to connect to this wire is a very
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thick cable. Certainly not something you wish to run for several 100
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meters through your building. And if you wanted to run it for 100 meters,
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you always would have to really run the cable, and didn't have the option
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to use existing wiring.<br>
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This is where we wanted more flexibility. We wanted to be able to use
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existing wiring in buildings. That leaded us to CAT-5(UTP) which only
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gives us 8 wires. Therefor we decided to redesing the use of the Trimble
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antenna. The Trimble supports two modes: EVENT driver and PPS mode. The
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default is to use the EVENT mode which needs all 12 wires. We only use the
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PPS timestamps for which we have enough with 8 wires. For our purposes
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this is more than fine.
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</p>
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More information about the project can be found on the <a href="http://www.ripe.net/test-traffic" TARGET=_new>Test Traffic Measurements</a> website.
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<img src="pic/driver43_1.gif" alt="RIPE NCC clock card" align="right">
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<h4> RIPE NCC clock card</h4>
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<p>The card is very a simple PCI card. The only feature on the bus it uses
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is the power supply. It uses this power supply to power the Trimble GPS
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antenna.</p>
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<p>The card basicly just is a RS422 to RS232 converter. It gets the
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Trimble's RS422 signal on a RJ45 connector and transforms that to RS232 on a
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DIN9 connector. This connector should be loopbacked on the back of the
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machine to the serial port. As said, the card doesn't do any PCI data
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transfers.</p>
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<p>The schematics of the interface card is available here: <a
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href="http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/mem-services/ttm/Documents/gps_interface_schematic.pdf">gps_interface_schematic.pdf</a>.
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You are free to create this card yourself as long as you give some credit
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or reference to us. Note that we don't sell these cards on a commercial
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basis, but for interested parties we do have some spares to share.<p>
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<h4>Monitor Data</h4>
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In the <tt>filegen clockstats</tt> file the following (example) data is
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collected:
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<pre>
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52445 41931.275 127.127.40.0 U1 20.6.2002 11:38:51 13 11
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52445 41931.395 127.127.40.0 C1 20062002 113851 6 364785 110.2 450 6.7 13 5222.374737 N 0453.268013 E 48 7 11 0 1 -14 20 0 -25
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52445 41931.465 127.127.40.0 S1 07 1 1 02 59.3 291.5 39.3
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52445 41931.485 127.127.40.0 S1 11 2 1 02 59.9 138.0 60.2
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52445 41931.525 127.127.40.0 S1 01 4 1 02 48.4 185.7 28.3
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52445 41931.555 127.127.40.0 S1 14 5 2 02 32.7 41.0 15.4
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52445 41931.585 127.127.40.0 S1 20 6 1 02 59.9 256.6 78.0
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52445 41931.615 127.127.40.0 S1 25 8 2 00 0.0 86.6 20.1
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</pre>
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This is in the form of:
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<pre>
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All output lines consist of a prefix and a message, the prefix is:
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[days since epoch] [sec.ms since start of day] [peer address]
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And all individual messages:
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*Primary UTC time packet:
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U1 [date] [time] [trackstat] [utcflags]
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*Comprehensive time packet:
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C1 [date] [time] [mode] [bias] [biasunc] [rate] [rateunc] [utcoff] [latitude] [longtitude] [alt] [vis sat](x8)
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*Tracking status packet:
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S1 [prn] [channel] [aqflag] [ephstat] [snr] [azinuth] [elevation]
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</pre>
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<h4>Additional Information</h4>
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<a href="refclock.htm">Reference Clock Drivers</a>
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<hr>
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<a href="index.htm"><img align="left" src="pic/home.gif" alt=
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"Home"></a>
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<address><a href="mailto:marks@ripe.net">Mark Santcroos
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<marks@ripe.net></a></address>
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