GPS183PEX - high accurate time base to your servers or workstations

Features:

• PCI Express Interface
• 2 time trigger inputs
• Pulses per second and per minute
• Periodic interrupts
• RS-232 interface
• IRIG-B/AFNOR time code outputs
• Programmable Pulse Outputs
• DCF77-simulation
• Memory Mapped I/O time reads for high access rates
• Plug and Play
• Frequency Synthesizer and Time Code Mode
• Configurable time scale (UTC/local, GPS time, TAI)
• Antenna connected with up to 300 m of standard coaxial cable RG58
• Driver software for all popular operating systems
• Including GPS antenna, 20 m cable and mounting kit

This PCI Express slot card is the best choice for adding a highly accurate time base to your servers or workstations. It can be used as a stratum 0 reference timesource for NTP and transforms any machine into a Stratum 1 NTP server without consuming additional physical space in your server room.

The board GPS183PEX is designed as a low profile board for computers with PCI Express interface. The rear slot cover integrates the antenna connector, a BNC connector for modulated time codes, a 9pin D_SUB male connector and two status LEDs. With this standard height bracket you can use the D_SUB connector for I/O signals like RS-232 - PPS and PPM and you can use this interface for firmware updates.

The GPS183PEX will be delivered with a low profile bracket. You can mount this part instead of the standard bracket, to run the GPS183PEX in computers with smaller housing (e.g. 1U server).

The GPS183PEX comes with a truckload of features to enable software developers to overcome the timing limitations of COTS operating systems like Linux or Windows. The powerful and highly functional Meinberg API (Application Programming Interface) delivers an easy to use and portable way of accessing all Meinberg bus level timing devices, including ISA, PCI, PCI-X, PCI Express and USB time synchronisation products.

Legacy interfaces like IRIG, 1PPS or serial time strings can be used to connect other equipment to the PCIe slot card and transfer the time base over dedicated cable connections to systems which cannot be synchronised via NTP or other network protocols.

The new Memory Mapped Access feature offers a fast, simple and efficient way of reading the current time with high precision.