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<meta name="description" content="Superficially similar to the elecrow GPS shield at the time of writing it's available from ebay for around $20.
I chose this model because it has a ublox GPS module and a header with signals marke…">
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<div style="float:right;clear:right"><!-- IMG_20180723_211750.jpg--><div class=albumouter style=width:306px id=><div class=albumimage style="width:306px;margin-left:0px;"><a href="https://media.unpythonic.net/emergent-files/01532398717/IMG_20180723_211750-medium.jpg" class="thickbox" rel="album" title="The two GPS receivers on my window sill"><img src="https://media.unpythonic.net/emergent-files/01532398717/IMG_20180723_211750-small.jpg" width=300 height=196></a><div ><div style="float: right" ><a href="https://media.unpythonic.net/emergent-files/01532398717/IMG_20180723_211750-medium.jpg">(M)</a><a href="https://media.unpythonic.net/emergent-files/01532398717/IMG_20180723_211750.jpg">(L)</a></div><a href="https://media.unpythonic.net/emergent-files/01532398717/IMG_20180723_211750.jpg">The two GPS receivers on my window sill</a></div></div></div>
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Superficially similar to <a href="https://www.elecrow.com/wiki/images/7/7b/ELEC_GPS_Shield_v1.1.pdf">the elecrow GPS shield</a> at the time of writing it's available from ebay for around $20.
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<p>I chose this model because it has a ublox GPS module and a header with signals marked "GP" and "EX". EX should be external interrupt, and it opens the possibility of a simple GPS-disciplined frequency counter.
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<p>It comes with a small antenna, short cable. One of those godawful laptop style
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connectors, and no provision for directly soldering a better one. Sigh.
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<p>Initially, I connected directly to my PC without a microcontroller involved, by
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jumpering a 5V FTDI dongle to +5V, GND, TX and RX pins. In this condition, it
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gets a fix after a few minutes on a windowsill with a decent view of the sky
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<p>NMEA identification says:
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<pre>
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$GPTXT,01,01,02,u-blox ag - www.u-blox.com*50
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$GPTXT,01,01,02,HW UBX-G60xx 00040007 FF7FFFFFp*53
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$GPTXT,01,01,02,ROM CORE 7.03 (45969) Mar 17 2011 16:18:34*59
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$GPTXT,01,01,02,ANTSUPERV=AC SD PDoS SR*20
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$GPTXT,01,01,02,ANTSTATUS=DONTKNOW*33
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</pre>
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and it works with u-center so it might even be a genuine ublox module or at
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least a genuine UBX-G60xx chip (but who can say for sure).
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<p>Next, I soldered pins to the GP/EX header JP5 and seated it on an
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Arduino form-factor Metro M4 with CircuitPython.
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<p>After a bit of hacking, the M4 puts the GPS in frequency counter mode, and I've
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also connected my <a href="https://www.zachtek.com/product-page/gps-referenced-rf-generator-1mhz-out">ublox-based RF generator</a> to the GPS shield to the EX input. (Note that the RF
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generator's signal is referenced to 3.0V and has a nominal 50 ohm impedance;
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the GPS shield lacks level conversion for the EX pin, so connecting 5V could
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cause damage)
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<p>Placing the GPS in counter mode means sending a CFG-MSG packet to turn on TIM-TM2 reports. Both of these messages are in UBX binary format.
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<p>The main hitch I discovered is that in the ublox TIM-TM2 message, the number of
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counts is modulo 2^16 and the message is delivered once a second, so only
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frequencies of up to 65535Hz can be counted directly.
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<p>However, when you're willing to allow the assumption that the original clock is
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close to a specific value, the lost high bits of the count can be restored with
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some arithmetic. As you know the delta time accurately, you know how many
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counts are expected within that delta time. You simply choose
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<em>k</em> such that <em>k*65536+lo_counts</em> is closest to the
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expected counts over the given timespan.
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<p>The program in its current form compares the most recently received TIM-TM2
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packet to the first received one, so you have to drive the module with a fixed
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frequency from powerup (or, rather, from when the python code starts running).
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<p>After a few minutes of accumulated data, the input frequency remains highly
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consistent with being 10MHz (or that they both have the same systematic error
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due to both being based on ublox GPS modules and receiving the same GPS
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signal):
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Frequency estimate = 9999999.999537499
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15999996466 counts in 1599.999646674s
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estimated error [start,end]=62,66ns
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9999999.998737499 .. 10000000.000337500
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<p>While it seems initially that you could go to infinite gate time, in practice I
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don't think that's possible while considering only the first and last packets.
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That's because the error between the nominal and actual frequency will
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accumulate and eventually exceed 2^15 counts. When this happens, the code to
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restore the count high bits will restore it to a value closer than the true
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value. However, by doing the high bit restoration based on the two most recent
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TIM-TM2 packets, even this restriction should be lifted.
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<p>(For a nominal 10MHz clock with a 1ppm systematic error, aka 10Hz, this would
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become a problem at around 3276s if I understand properly)
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<p>In order to ensure accuracy, my code works with nanoseconds and nanoHz as
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Python longs, so floating point precision (and specifically micropython floats
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which are just 32-bit values!) does not affect the accuracy of the arithmetic.
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<p>My code is too un-polished to be published at this time, and due to the
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necessity of hard-coding the nominal frequency I don't plan to publish it at
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this time and may not develop it any further.
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<p>Minor update: After running overnight, the two GPSes agree to within a very tight margin (on the order of 1e-11 or a microsecond per day):
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Frequency estimate = 10000000.000036165
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334569999530 counts in 33456.999952879s
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estimated error [start,end]=62,62ns
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9999999.999999103 .. 10000000.000073228
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However, some estimates are seen which exclude 10MHz exactly:
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Frequency estimate = 10000000.000039292
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335940000414 counts in 33594.000041268s
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estimated error [start,end]=62,62ns
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10000000.000002381 .. 10000000.000076204
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In infinite accumulation mode there doesn't seem to be any point to
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letting the program run for longer than a day or so, as you have to run 10x
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as long to get an additional digit of error to disappear.
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<br><br><font size=-2>Entry first conceived on 24 July 2018, 2:18 UTC, last modified on 6 July 2019, 21:49 UTC</font>
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