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Subject: [ts-7000] Re: ts11 Time resolution
From: "naturalwatt" <>
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:10:06 -0000
--- In  "fabianmejia" <> wrote:
>
> Hi All, 
> 
> I am under development of a capture system. I need to sample about
> 200Hz. That is, about sampling each 0.005 seconds.
> 
> I have it working using the Jim Jackson's adc_logger.
> 
> Unfortunatelly, this can't accomplish the job as it's accurate about 10ms.
> 
> So, I decided using gettimeofday. Oh surprise!!! It doesn't work
> properly. microsecond precision? Forget about it. Readings give me
> mumbers like this:
> 
> 510000
> 530000
> 550000
> 
> It sounds like 10msec precision.
> 
>

There is an alternative that may be suitable.  The nanosleep libary call will 
do busy-loop 
wait when invoked with a duration less than the tick interval.  This allows you 
to go down 
to microsecond resolution, but your CPU usage will be be a nice level 100%, and 
other 
programs may or may not get a look in.  PS -you also have to set your processes 
scheduling prority to one of the realtime classes - SCHED_RR or SCHED_FIFO.

Martin



 
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