IEEE 1588 Timing Control Board for Industrial Control

Altera, Nat Semi, MorethanIP introduced IEEE 1588 Timing Control Board, enabling rapid implementation of the IEEE 1588 standard for applications requiring precision timing.

The board includes 10/100-Mbps IEEE 802.3 standard Ethernet MAC, as well as supporting IEEE 1588 versions 1 and 2 for timing control with transparent end-to-end (E2E) and peer-to-peer (P2P) clock sequencing.

According to ARC Advisory Group, the industrial Ethernet switch market is estimated at 325,000 units in 2006, This market is seeing an adoption of IEEE 1588 technology.

The current board features Altera's Stratix II device and uses four DP83849 dual-port physical layer transceivers from National Semiconductor. This high-speed industrial connectivity design features the low deterministic latency required for precise clock synchronization and offers National's patent-pending Flex-Port switching for fully integrated range extension, media conversion and hardware-based failover. National's low-dropout and buck regulators power the FPGAs and transceivers. Future models will use a device from Altera's low-cost Cyclone family of FPGAs.

The reference board is available now for $995 and includes an IP license from MorethanIP

About MorethanIP
MorethanIP, is a company specialized in IP for high-speed communications, serial backplane and embedded system technologies, including design, specification and implementation of standard products, system architectures and customer-specific solutions.

Source: Altera