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13		<h3>NTP PARSE clock data formats</h3>
14		<p>The parse driver currently supports several clocks with different query mechanisms. In order for you to find a sample that might be similar to a clock you might want to integrate into parse I'll sum up the major features of the clocks (this information is distributed in the parse/clk_*.c and ntpd/refclock_parse.c files).</p>
15<p>Last update:
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18		<hr>
19		<h4>Meinberg clocks</h4>
20		<pre>
21Meinberg: start=&lt;STX&gt;, end=&lt;ETX&gt;, sync on start
22      pattern=&quot;\2D:  .  .  ;T: ;U:  .  .  ;    \3&quot;
23      pattern=&quot;\2  .  .  ;  ;   :  :  ;        \3&quot;
24      pattern=&quot;\2  .  .  ;  ;   :  :  ;    :  ;        ;   .         .       &quot;
25</pre>
26		<p>Meinberg is a German manufacturer of time code receivers. Those clocks have a pretty common output format in the stock version. In order to support NTP Meinberg was so kind to produce some special versions of the firmware for the use with NTP. So, if you are going to use a Meinberg clock please ask whether there is a special Uni Erlangen version. You can reach <a href="http://www.meinberg.de/">Meinberg</a> via the Web. Information can also be ordered via eMail from <a href="mailto:%20info@meinberg.de">info@meinberg.de</a></p>
27		<p>General characteristics:<br>
28			Meinberg clocks primarily output pulse per second and a describing ASCII string. This string can be produced in two modes: either upon the reception of a question mark or every second. NTP uses the latter mechanism. DCF77 AM clocks have a limited accuracy of a few milliseconds. The DCF77 PZF5xx variants provide higher accuracy and have a pretty good relationship between RS232 time code and the PPS signal. Except for early versions of the old GPS166 receiver type, Meinberg GPS receivers have a very good timing relationship between the datagram and the pulse. The beginning of the start bit of the first character has basically the same accuracy as the PPS signal, plus a jitter of up to 1 bit time depending on the selected baud rate, i.e. 52 &mu;s @ 19200. PPS support should always be used, if possible, in order to yield the highest possible accuracy.</p>
29		<p>The preferred tty setting for Meinberg DCF77 receivers is 9600/7E2:</p>
30		<pre>
31		CFLAG		(B9600|CS7|PARENB|CREAD|HUPCL)
32		IFLAG		(IGNBRK|IGNPAR|ISTRIP)
33		OFLAG		0
34		LFLAG		0
35        </pre>
36		<p>The tty setting for Meinberg GPS16x/17x receivers is 19200/8N1:</p>
37		<pre>
38		CFLAG		(B19200|CS8|PARENB|CREAD|HUPCL)
39		IFLAG		(IGNBRK|IGNPAR|ISTRIP)
40		OFLAG		0
41		LFLAG		0
42        </pre>
43		<p>All clocks should be run at datagram once per second.<br><br></p>
44		<p>Format of the Meinberg standard time string:</p>
45<pre>
46        <b><i>&lt;STX&gt;</i>D:<i>dd.mm.yy</i>;T:<i>w</i>;U:<i>hh.mm.ss</i>;<i>uvxy</i><i>&lt;ETX&gt;</i></b>
47    pos:  0  000000001111111111222222222233  3
48          1  234567890123456789012345678901  2
49
50    <i>&lt;STX&gt;</i>         = start-of-text, ASCII code 0x02
51    <i>dd.mm.yy</i>      = day of month, month, year of the century, separated by dots
52    <i>w</i>             = day of week (1..7, Monday = 1)
53    <i>hh:mm:ss</i>      = hour, minute, second, separated by dots
54    <i>u</i>             = '#' for GPS receivers: time is <b>not</b> synchronized
55                           '#' for older PZF5xx receivers: no correlation, not synchronized
56                           '#' for other devices: never sync'ed since powerup
57                           ' ' if nothing of the above applies
58    <i>v</i>             = '*' for GPS receivers: position has <b>not</b> been verified
59                           '*' for other devices: freewheeling based on internal quartz
60                           ' ' if nothing of the above applies
61    <i>x</i>             = 'U' if UTC time is transmitted
62                           'S' if daylight saving time is active
63                           ' ' if nothing of the above applies
64    <i>y</i>             = '!' during the hour preceding start or end of daylight saving time
65                           'A' during the hour preceding a leap second
66                           ' ' if nothing of the above applies
67    <i>&lt;ETX&gt;</i>         = end-of-text, ASCII code 0x03
68</pre>
69		<p>Format of the Uni Erlangen time string for PZF5xx receivers:</p>
70<pre>
71        <b><i>&lt;STX&gt;</i><i>dd.mm.yy</i>; <i>w</i>; <i>hh:mm:ss</i>; <i>tuvxyza</i><i>&lt;ETX&gt;</i></b>
72    pos:  0  000000001111111111222222222233  3
73          1  234567890123456789012345678901  2
74
75    <i>&lt;STX&gt;</i>         = start-of-text, ASCII code 0x02
76    <i>dd.mm.yy</i>      = day of month, month, year of the century, separated by dots
77    <i>w</i>             = day of week (1..7, Monday = 1)
78    <i>hh:mm:ss</i>      = hour, minute, second, separated by colons
79
80    <i>t</i>             = 'U' if UTC time is transmitted, else ' '
81    <i>u</i>             = '#' for older PZF5xx receivers: no correlation, not synchronized
82                           '#' for PZF511 and newer: never sync'ed since powerup
83                           ' ' if nothing of the above applies
84    <i>v</i>             = '*' if freewheeling based on internal quartz, else ' '
85    <i>x</i>             = 'S' if daylight saving time is active, else ' '
86    <i>y</i>             = '!' during the hour preceding start or end of daylight saving time, else ' '
87    <i>z</i>             = 'A' during the hour preceding a leap second, else ' '
88    <i>a</i>             = 'R' alternate antenna (reminiscent of PZF5xx), usually ' ' for GPS receivers
89    <i>&lt;ETX&gt;</i>         = end-of-text, ASCII code 0x03
90</pre>
91		<p>Format of the Uni Erlangen time string for GPS16x/GPS17x receivers:</p>
92<pre>
93        <b><i>&lt;STX&gt;</i><i>dd.mm.yy</i>; <i>w</i>; <i>hh:mm:ss</i>; <i>+uu:uu</i>; <i>uvxyzab</i>; <i>ll.lllln</i> <i>lll.lllle</i> <i>hhhh</i>m<i>&lt;ETX&gt;</i></b>
94    pos:  0  0000000011111111112222222222333333333344444444445555555555666666  6
95          1  2345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345  6
96
97    <i>&lt;STX&gt;</i>         = start-of-text, ASCII code 0x02
98    <i>dd.mm.yy</i>      = day of month, month, year of the century, separated by dots
99    <i>w</i>             = day of week (1..7, Monday = 1)
100    <i>hh:mm:ss</i>      = hour, minute, second, separated by colons
101    <i>+uu:uu</i>        = offset to UTC in hours and minutes, preceded by + or -
102    <i>u</i>             = '#' if time is <b>not</b> synchronized, else ' '
103    <i>v</i>             = '*' if position has <b>not</b> been verified, else ' '
104    <i>x</i>             = 'S' if daylight saving time is active, else ' '
105    <i>y</i>             = '!' during the hour preceding start or end of daylight saving time, else ' '
106    <i>z</i>             = 'A' during the hour preceding a leap second, else ' '
107    <i>a</i>             = 'R' alternate antenna (reminiscent of PZF5xx), usually ' ' for GPS receivers
108    <i>b</i>             = 'L' during a leap second, i.e. if the seconds field is 60, else ' '
109    <i>ll.lllln</i>      = position latitude in degrees, 'n' can actually be 'N' or 'S', i.e. North or South
110    <i>lll.lllle</i>     = position longitude in degrees, 'e' can actually be 'E' or 'W', i.e. East or West
111    <i>hhhh</i>          = position altitude in meters, always followed by 'm'
112    <i>&lt;ETX&gt;</i>         = end-of-text, ASCII code 0x03
113</pre>
114		<p>Examples for Uni Erlangen strings from GPS receivers:</p>
115<pre>
116        \x02 09.07.93; 5; 08:48:26; +00:00;        ; 49.5736N  11.0280E  373m \x03
117        \x02 08.11.06; 3; 14:39:39; +00:00;        ; 51.9828N   9.2258E  176m \x03
118</pre>
119		<p>The Uni Erlangen formats should be used preferably. Newer Meinberg GPS receivers can be configured to transmit that format, for older devices there may be a special firmware version available.</p>
120		<p>For the Meinberg parse look into clk_meinberg.c<br><br></p>
121		<hr>
122		<h4>Raw DCF77 Data via serial line</h4>
123		<p>RAWDCF: end=TIMEOUT&gt;1.5s, sync each char (any char),generate psuedo time codes, fixed format</p>
124		<p>direct DCF77 code input</p>
125		<p>In Europe it is relatively easy/cheap the receive the german time code transmitter DCF77. The simplest version to process its signal is to feed the 100/200ms pulse of the demodulated AM signal via a level converter to an RS232 port at 50Baud. parse/clk_rawdcf.c holds all necessary decoding logic for the time code which is transmitted each minute for one minute. A bit of the time code is sent once a second.</p>
126		<pre>
127	The preferred tty setting is:
128		CFLAG           (B50|CS8|CREAD|CLOCAL)
129		IFLAG		0
130		OFLAG		0
131 		LFLAG		0
132</pre>
133		<h4>DCF77 raw time code</h4>
134		<p>From &quot;Zur Zeit&quot;, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Braunschweig und Berlin, M&auml;rz 1989<br>
135		</p>
136		<p>Timecode transmission:</p>
137		<pre>
138	AM:
139
140	time marks are send every second except for the second before the
141	next minute mark
142	time marks consist of a reduction of transmitter power to 25%
143	of the nominal level
144	the falling edge is the time indication (on time)
145	time marks of a 100ms duration constitute a logical 0
146	time marks of a 200ms duration constitute a logical 1
147</pre>
148		<p>see the spec. (basically a (non-)inverted psuedo random phase shift) encoding:</p>
149		<pre>
150	FM:
151
152	Second	Contents
153	0  - 10	AM: free, FM: 0
154	11 - 14	free
155	15		R     - alternate antenna
156	16		A1    - expect zone change (1 hour before)
157	17 - 18	Z1,Z2 - time zone
158		 0  0 illegal
159		 0  1 MEZ  (MET)
160		 1  0 MESZ (MED, MET DST)
161		 1  1 illegal
162	19	A2    - expect leap insertion/deletion (1 hour before)
163	20	S     - start of time code (1)
164	21 - 24	M1    - BCD (lsb first) Minutes
165	25 - 27	M10   - BCD (lsb first) 10 Minutes
166	28	P1    - Minute Parity (even)
167	29 - 32	H1    - BCD (lsb first) Hours
168	33 - 34	H10   - BCD (lsb first) 10 Hours
169	35	P2    - Hour Parity (even)
170	36 - 39	D1    - BCD (lsb first) Days
171	40 - 41	D10   - BCD (lsb first) 10 Days
172	42 - 44	DW    - BCD (lsb first) day of week (1: Monday -&gt; 7: Sunday)
173	45 - 49	MO1   - BCD (lsb first) Month
174	50	MO10  - 10 Months
175	51 - 53	Y1    - BCD (lsb first) Years
176	54 - 57	Y10   - BCD (lsb first) 10 Years
177	58 	P3    - Date Parity (even)
178	59	      - usually missing (minute indication), except for leap insertion
179</pre>
180		<hr>
181		<h4>Schmid clock</h4>
182		<p>Schmid clock: needs poll, binary input, end='\xFC', sync start</p>
183		<p>The Schmid clock is a DCF77 receiver that sends a binary time code at the reception of a flag byte. The contents if the flag byte determined the time code format. The binary time code is delimited by the byte 0xFC.</p>
184		<pre>
185	TTY setup is:
186		CFLAG		(B1200|CS8|CREAD|CLOCAL)
187		IFLAG		0
188		OFLAG		0
189 		LFLAG		0
190
191</pre>
192		<p>The command to Schmid's DCF77 clock is a single byte; each bit allows the user to select some part of the time string, as follows (the output for the lsb is sent first).</p>
193		<pre>
194	Bit 0:	time in MEZ, 4 bytes *binary, not BCD*; hh.mm.ss.tenths
195	Bit 1:	date 3 bytes *binary, not BCD: dd.mm.yy
196	Bit 2:	week day, 1 byte (unused here)
197	Bit 3:	time zone, 1 byte, 0=MET, 1=MEST. (unused here)
198	Bit 4:	clock status, 1 byte,	0=time invalid,
199					1=time from crystal backup,
200					3=time from DCF77
201	Bit 5:	transmitter status, 1 byte,
202					bit 0: backup antenna
203					bit 1: time zone change within 1h
204					bit 3,2: TZ 01=MEST, 10=MET
205					bit 4: leap second will be
206						added within one hour
207					bits 5-7: Zero
208	Bit 6:	time in backup mode, units of 5 minutes (unused here)
209</pre>
210		<hr>
211		<h4>Trimble SV6 ASCII time code (TAIP)</h4>
212		<p>Trimble SV6: needs poll, ascii timecode, start='&gt;', end='&lt;', query='&gt;QTM&lt;', eol='&lt;'</p>
213		<p>Trimble SV6 is a GPS receiver with PPS output. It needs to be polled. It also need a special tty mode setup (EOL='&lt;').</p>
214		<pre>
215	TTY setup is:
216		CFLAG            (B4800|CS8|CREAD)
217		IFLAG            (BRKINT|IGNPAR|ISTRIP|ICRNL|IXON)
218		OFLAG            (OPOST|ONLCR)
219		LFLAG            (ICANON|ECHOK)
220</pre>
221		<p>Special flags are:</p>
222		<pre>		PARSE_F_PPSPPS	    - use CIOGETEV for PPS time stamping
223		PARSE_F_PPSONSECOND - the time code is not related to
224				      the PPS pulse (so use the time code
225				      only for the second epoch)
226
227	Timecode
228	0000000000111111111122222222223333333	/ char
229	0123456789012345678901234567890123456	\ posn
230	&gt;RTMhhmmssdddDDMMYYYYoodnnvrrrrr;*xx&lt;	Actual
231	----33445566600112222BB7__-_____--99-	Parse
232	&gt;RTM                      1     ;*  &lt; 	Check
233</pre>
234		<hr>
235		<h4>ELV DCF7000</h4>
236		<p>ELV DCF7000: end='\r', pattern=&quot; - - - - - - - \r&quot;</p>
237		<p>The ELV DCF7000 is a cheap DCF77 receiver sending each second a time code (though not very precise!) delimited by '`r'</p>
238		<pre>
239	Timecode
240	  YY-MM-DD-HH-MM-SS-FF\r
241
242		FF&amp;0x1	- DST
243		FF&amp;0x2	- DST switch warning
244		FF&amp;0x4  - unsynchronised
245</pre>
246		<hr>
247		<h4>HOPF 6021 und Kompatible</h4>
248		<p>HOPF Funkuhr 6021 mit serieller Schnittstelle Created by F.Schnekenbuehl &lt;frank@comsys.dofn.de&gt; from clk_rcc8000.c Nortel DASA Network Systems GmbH, Department: ND250 A Joint venture of Daimler-Benz Aerospace and Nortel.</p>
249		<pre>
250 hopf Funkuhr 6021 
251      used with 9600,8N1,
252      UTC via serial line
253      &quot;Sekundenvorlauf&quot; ON
254      ETX zum Sekundenvorlauf ON
255      dataformat 6021
256      output time and date
257      transmit with control characters
258      transmit evry second
259 </pre>
260		<p>Type 6021 Serial Output format</p>
261		<pre>
262      000000000011111111 / char
263      012345678901234567 \ position
264      sABHHMMSSDDMMYYnre  Actual
265       C4110046231195     Parse
266      s              enr  Check
267
268  s = STX (0x02), e = ETX (0x03)
269  n = NL  (0x0A), r = CR  (0x0D)
270
271  A B - Status and weekday
272 
273  A - Status
274
275      8 4 2 1
276      x x x 0  - no announcement
277      x x x 1  - Summertime - wintertime - summertime announcement
278      x x 0 x  - Wintertime
279      x x 1 x  - Summertime
280      0 0 x x  - Time/Date invalid
281      0 1 x x  - Internal clock used 
282      1 0 x x  - Radio clock
283      1 1 x x  - Radio clock highprecision
284
285  B - 8 4 2 1
286      0 x x x  - MESZ/MEZ
287      1 x x x  - UTC
288      x 0 0 1  - Monday
289      x 0 1 0  - Tuesday
290      x 0 1 1  - Wednesday
291      x 1 0 0  - Thursday
292      x 1 0 1  - Friday
293      x 1 1 0  - Saturday
294      x 1 1 1  - Sunday
295</pre>
296		<hr>
297		<h4>Diem Computime Clock</h4>
298		<p>The Computime receiver sends a datagram in the following format every minute</p>
299		<pre>   
300   Timestamp	T:YY:MM:MD:WD:HH:MM:SSCRLF 
301   Pos          0123456789012345678901 2 3
302		0000000000111111111122 2 2
303   Parse        T:  :  :  :  :  :  :  \r\n
304   
305   T	Startcharacter &quot;T&quot; specifies start of the timestamp 
306   YY	Year MM	Month 1-12 
307   MD	Day of the month 
308   WD	Day of week 
309   HH	Hour 
310   MM   Minute 
311   SS   Second
312   CR   Carriage return 
313   LF   Linefeed
314</pre>
315		<hr>
316		<h4>WHARTON 400A Series Clock with a 404.2 Serial interface</h4>
317		<p>The WHARTON 400A Series clock is able to send date/time serial messages in 7 output formats. We use format 1 here because it is the shortest. We set up the clock to send a datagram every second. For use with this driver, the WHARTON 400A Series clock must be set-up as follows :</p>
318		<pre>
319  					Programmable	Selected
320  					Option No	Option
321	BST or CET display		3		9 or 11
322	No external controller		7		0
323	Serial Output Format 1		9		1
324	Baud rate 9600 bps		10		96
325	Bit length 8 bits		11		8
326	Parity even			12		E
327</pre>
328		<p>WHARTON 400A Series output format 1 is as follows :</p>
329		<pre>
330   Timestamp	STXssmmhhDDMMYYSETX
331   Pos		0  12345678901234
332  		0  00000000011111
333  
334   STX	start transmission (ASCII 0x02)
335   ETX	end transmission (ASCII 0x03)
336   ss	Second expressed in reversed decimal (units then tens)
337   mm	Minute expressed in reversed decimal
338   hh	Hour expressed in reversed decimal
339   DD	Day of month expressed in reversed decimal
340   MM	Month expressed in reversed decimal (January is 1)
341   YY	Year (without century) expressed in reversed decimal
342   S	Status byte : 0x30 +
343		bit 0	0 = MSF source		1 = DCF source
344		bit 1	0 = Winter time		1 = Summer time
345		bit 2	0 = not synchronised	1 = synchronised
346		bit 3	0 = no early warning	1 = early warning
347</pre>
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