IEEE 1588 Starter Kit

The three starter kit versions include different mixes of the following items:

LANTIME M600/GPS/PTP acting as GPS synchronized Grandmaster, by Meinberg
Industrial Ethernet Switch MICE MS-20 acting as Boundary Clock, by Hirschmann
PCI Ethernet Card running as Ordinary Clock within a Linux computer, by InES
SyncBox acting as a stand alone Ethernet attached slave, by Meinberg

(The 3 different Starter Kit Configurations always include the M600 Grandmaster Clock and the Hirschmann Switch)

Hirschmann Automation and Control, Meinberg and the Institute of Embedded Systems at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences in Winterthur collaborate to assist you in getting started. They created a PTP Starter Kit that includes everything you need to run tests and experiments to find out if PTP works for you and your projects.

The starter kit hardware is delivered with a Live CD, which boots Linux, and provides driver support for the PCI card. A PTP Manager Application will support you in finding out what happens in your PTP test network.

The LANTIME M600/GPS/PTP Network Time Server from Meinberg acts as a highly stable and accurate Grandmaster Clock for your PTP networks. It can be used as a Stratum 1 NTP time server in parallel and provides a number of pulse and frequency outputs (1PPS, 1PPM, 10 MHz, Frequency Synthesizer) as well as IRIG time code outputs (DCLS and AM). The M600 has one IEEE 1588-compliant network interface and four non-PTP ports that can be used for management purposes and to synchronize NTP or SNTP clients.

Every PTP Starter Kit also includes the MICE MS-20 Industrial Ethernet Switch from Hirschmann Automation and Control to allow you to build your own PTP test network infrastructure. The MICE MS-20 Switch acts as a PTP Boundary Clock and enables you to test the influence of your infrastructure on the time synchronization performance of your network. The Starter Kit version of the switch includes a 4 Port TP10/100 Media Module, the available empty Open Rail Module slot can be used to expand the switch with one additional Media Module to add another 4 TP ports or other Media Types.

The Starter Kit 1 includes a Meinberg SyncBox/PTP, a client device that is synchronized by PTP and offers a number of legacy timing and frequency outputs like 1PPS, 10 MHz and IRIG (DCLS/AM). It has two so-called Capture Inputs which can be used to timestamp external events and can provide time synchronization to NTP/SNTP clients in your network.

For Software Engineers or people that would like to dig deeper into the internals of IEEE 1588, the Starter Kit 2 is a good choice to get down to the application level. The IEEE 1588 PCI card of the Institute of Embedded Systems (InES) can be installed in a Linux PC and allows you to directly use PTP time synchronization in your application.

NTP Timeserver with integrated GPS radio clock as reference time source

Features:

high precision oscillator OCXO HQ
5 Ethernet interfaces:
4 x 10/100 BASE-T +
1 x PTP/IEEE 1588 10/100 BASE-T
supported networking protocols:
IPv4, IPv6, HTTPS, HTTP,
SSH, TELNET,
SCP, SFTP, FTP,
SYSLOG, SNMP

Outputs:

1 x IRIG modulated (AM)
1 x IRIG unmodulated (DCLS)
1 x PPM
1 x PPS
1 x 10 MHZ
1 x Synthesizer
2 x Serial Timestring
1 x Timesync Error

MICE MS-20 Industrial Ethernet Switch

point to point synchronization: nearly no jitter between master and slave
internal delay/jitter of switch is not relevant
accuracy independent of network load
synchronization between two devices <100ns
IEEE 1588 Modules are available with following connections:
4 x 10/100BASE-T
2 x 10BASE-FL or
100BASE-FX (MM or SM) + 2 x 10/100BASE-T

Meinberg SyncBox/PTP

high precision oscillator OCXO HQ
NTP Time Server
supported networking protocols:
IPv4, IPv6, HTTPS, HTTP, SSH,
TELNET,SCP, SFTP, FTP, SYSLOG, SNMP
1 x 10/100 BASE-T + 1 x PTP/IEEE 1588 10/100 BASE-T
2 x programmable outputs:
1 x PPS, 10 MHz IRIG DCLS (B002, B003,...)
1 x IRIG AM (B122, B123,...)
2 x Capture inputs with high time resolution
available with AC and DC power supply

ZHW/InES PCI Ethernet Card

hardware based (FPGA) support of IEEE 1588 clock and timestamping
IEEE 1588 clock with seconds/nanoseconds representation, driven by a 50 MHz oscillator
synchronisation accuracy < 100ns
PPS (pulse per second) output
2 x external timestamped inputs
2 x programmable timer outputs
FPGA reprogrammable through PCI bus
fully functional 10/100 mbps Ethernet operation with 32bit 5V PCI 2.2 interface
delivered with drivers (kernel 2.4 and 2.6) and binary protocol software for IEEE 1588 ordinary clock
custom functional extensions and drivers on request

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