Synchronization of stand alone measurement instruments by PDA and embedded hardware

Author

Grimaldi, Domenico ; Lamonaca, Francesco ; Nastro, Alfonso

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron., Comput. & Syst. Sci., Univ. of Calabria, Rende, Italy

fYear

2011

fDate

10-12 May 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

In the paper is proposed an eXtended Hardware Interfaces (XHI) designed to synchronize stand alone Measurement Instruments (MIs), not connected to Distributed Measurement System. The XHI is based on the conjunct use of Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) and Embedded Synchronizing Hardware (ESH) This solution merges the advantages of the PDA as concerning with the easy and flexible setting up of measurement procedure on MI, and the ones of the ESH as concerning with the achievable synchronization accuracy of order of sub-μs, comparable to that guaranteed by the standard IEEE 1588-v1. Experimental tests validate the performances of the proposed XHI.

Keywords

computer interfaces; computerised instrumentation; embedded systems; notebook computers; synchronisation; ESH; PDA; XHI; distributed measurement system; embedded synchronizing hardware; extended hardware interface; measurement procedure; personal digital assistant; stand alone measurement instrument; standard IEEE 1588-v1; synchronization accuracy; Accuracy; Delay; Hardware; Instruments; Personal digital assistants; Synchronization; Embedded Hardware; Measurement Instrument Synchronization; Personal Digital Assistant;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC), 2011 IEEE

Conference_Location

Binjiang

ISSN

1091-5281

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7933-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMTC.2011.5944276

Filename

5944276