Synopsis
Today clock synchronisation of various nodes in a distributed system for getting a global time which is valid for all nodes becomes more and more important. Many applications (e.g. telecom, automation industry, energy sector) are built up by a distributed system where a global time is needed. IEEE 1588 is a standard for clock synchronisation and is capable to synchronise the clocks located in network nodes of a distributed system. Many variants for implementing the Precision Time Protocol (PTP) exist, such as software only implementations or harware assisted software implementations. This work describes a hardware implementation of PTP which is fully coded in VHDL (Hardware assisted hardware implementation). The solution of the implementation is a System on Chip design for FPGAs or ASICs.
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About the Author
Gerald Remsak has work experience of several years in Software Engineering especially in analysis, design, develoment and test of software applications. He has a master's degree in Embedded Systems and is interested not only in software programming but also in ASIC and FPGA design. Clock synchronisation (IEEE 1588) is another field of interest.
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