[Gb-ccb] forwarded message from John Ford

[Tim Pearson]

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Martin Shepherd wrote:

> This brings up a dump-mode issue that I hadn't thought about yet.
> Whereas the time-stamps of the 1ms integrations didn't need to be any
> more accurate than about 0.5ms, dump-mode samples will presumably need
> much more precise timestamps. So yes, your point about using a 10MHz
> signal synchronized to 1PPS may be important.

I do not think that accurate time-stamping of the dump data is a
requirement. An approximate time (better than 1s) of the start or end
of the dump is all that is needed, assuming the sequence of samples is
really a continuous one. Higher accuracy would be nice, but not
necessary. This is for diagnostics, not pulsar timing.

- Tim