CHAPTER FOUR
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bc635VME/bc350VXI Time and Frequency Processor (Rev. E)
Symmetricom Inc
* * * IMPORTANT * * *
When Mode 5 is used, the value of n1 and n2 produced by the 82C54 hardware is n1+1 and
n2+1. This is a result of the way INTEL designed the 82C54, and is unrelated to our design.
Example: It is desired to implement 10000 counts per second synchronous with the 1pps.
mode = "5" (synchronous)
n1+1 = 10
n2+1 = 100 (10,000,000) / (10 * 100) = 10000
byte 1
SOH.
byte 2
"F."
byte 3
"5"
(mode).
byte 4
"0."
byte 5
"0."
byte 6
"0."
byte 7
"9" (n1 = 9).
byte 8
"0."
byte 9
"0."
byte 10
"6."
byte 11
"3" (n2 = 99 = 0x63).
byte 12
ETB.
Other values of (n1+1) and (n2+1) could have been used. For example, (n1+1) = 25 and (n2+1) =
40.
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