ATC004

The AMC004 provides a complete GPS bus-level timing solution to a μTCA/ATCA system. The on-board GPS receiver is used to discipline the local oscillator and cancel out any oscillator drift or aging. Precision UTC timestamps, GPS receiver status, satellite data, and current GPS position are all made available via zero-latency PCIe/SRIO registers to the host CPU/application. All data is presented as binary with no need for parsing or conversion so that there is minimal overhead for the host application. To further support μTCA/ATCA-specific needs, the disciplined clock and 1PPS may be output to any TCLKA/TCLKB/TCLKC/TCLKD backplane channel as desired