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  • RossBencina 3 hours ago

    I wonder whether there are clock generators with on-chip temperature sensing...

    Yes: "an advanced, low-power, high-performance mobile clock generator with four clock outputs. The device integrates a MEMS resonator, temperature sensor and a temperature-to-digital converter (TDC), which eliminates the need for external crystal and temperature-sensing crystal resonators." -- https://www.sitime.com/products/clock-generators/clock-gener...

    • bux93 2 hours ago

      The paper mentions TCXOs and OCXOs, respectively temperature and oven-controlled crystal oscillator. You can get PCIe cards that have these on them, and devices for audio studios with a rubidium oscillator like the Tascam CG-1800.

      Jane Street has a podcast that lifts the veil a little bit on how they keep their gear synced up, which is pretty interesting: https://signalsandthreads.com/clock-synchronization/

  • RossBencina 3 hours ago

    From TFA: "Some commercial PTP implementations use packet delay variation (PDV) filters [27], and compensate for known latencies in the receive and transmit paths."

    This is phrased vaguely. All gPTP implementations are required to compensate for link delay (not necessarily rx/tx asymmetry).