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A Satellite-Controlled Digital Clock in *' • I I ' I 51 I •; . H &*: * NBS TECHNICAL NOTE 681 ^CAU Of * U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE/National Bureau of Standards A Satellite-Controlled Digital Clock QC 100 . U5753 no ,681 197G c.2 NBS TECHNICAL PUBLICATIONS PERIODICALS program coordinated by NBS. Program under authority of National Standard Data Act (Public Law 90-396). JOURNAL OF RESEARCH reports National Bureau of Standards research and development in physics, NOTE: At present the principal publication outlet for mathematics, and chemistry. It is published in two sec- these data is the Journal of Physical and Chemical tions, available separately: Reference Data (JPCRD) published quarterly for NBS by the American Chemical Society (ACS) and the Amer- • Physics and Chemistry (Section A) ican Institute of Physics (AIP). Subscriptions, reprints, Papers of interest primarily to scientists working in and supplements available from ACS, 1155 Sixteenth these fields. 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(U.S.), Tech Note 681, 46 pages (June 1976) CODEN: NBTNAE For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Printing Government Office , Washington, D.C. 20402 (Order by SD Catalog No. C13. 46:681) $1.05 13 CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION 1 2. SYSTEM DESCRIPTION 1 2.1 FORMAT 3 2.2 TIME CODE DISTRIBUTION 3 2 . TIME CODE GENERATION 6 2.4 TIME CODE RECEPTION 6 3. DIGITAL CLOCK DESCRIPTION 10 3 . DIGITAL CLOCK CIRCUITRY 14 3.2 SOFTWARE LISTING 20 3.3 DIGITAL CLOCK PERFORMANCE 20 4. CONCLUSION 40 5. REFERENCES 41 FIGURES FIGURE 1 SMS/GOES COVERAGE 2 FIGURE 2 INTERROGATION MESSAGE AND TIME CODE FORMATS 4 FIGURE 3 TIME CODE DISTRIBUTION 5 FIGURE 4 TIME CODE GENERATION AND CONTROL EQUIPMENT 7 FIGURE 5 RECEIVER BLOCK DIAGRAM 8 FIGURE 6 TIME DELAY THROUGH A GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE AT 115° WEST LONGITUDE FIGURE 7a TYPICAL DELAY DIURNALS FOR THE EASTERN SATELLITE WITH WALLOPS ISLAND TRANSMITTING 9 FIGURE 7b TYPICAL DELAY DIURNALS FOR THE WESTERN SATELLITE WITH WALLOPS ISLAND TRANSMITTING 9 FIGURE 8a SOFTWARE FLOW CHART 11 FIGURE 8b SOFTWARE FLOW CHART (CONTINUED) 12 FIGURE 9a RAM MAP 15 FIGURE 9b REGISTER MAP 15 FIGURE 10 DIGITAL CLOCK BLOCK DIAGRAM 16 FIGURE 11 MICROPROCESSOR CLOCK PHASE LOCKED TO DATA CLOCK 18 FIGURE 12 DIGITAL CLOCK SCHEMATIC 19 FIGURE 13 DIGITAL CLOCK DISPLAY SCHEMATIC 21 FIGURE 14 DIGITAL CLOCK, DISPLAY, AND PATH DELAY SLIDE RULE 22 f FIGURE 15a DISPLAY BOARD (FRONT) 23 FIGURE 15b DISPLAY BOARD (BACK) 24 FIGURE 15c CLOCK BOARD (FRONT) 2 5 FIGURE 15d CLOCK BOARD (BACK) 26 FIGURE 15e CLOCK BOARD COMPONENT LAYOUT 27 FIGURE 15 DISPLAY BOARD COMPONENT LAYOUT 2 7 FIGURE 16 UTC(MBS) - SATELLITE CLOCK (MICROPROCESSOR) 36 FIGURE 17 DIGITAL CLOCK PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SETUP 37 FIGURE 18 UTC(NBS) - SATELLITE CLOCK (TTL) 39 A SATELLITE-CONTROLLED DIGITAL CLOCK J. V. Cateora, D. D. Davis, and D. W. Hanson A digital clock, resettable and controlled by the time code relayed by NOAA's SMS/GOES satellites, is discussed. The clock's design is based upon a four-bit microprocessor and uses the redun- dancy of the data to improve its performance. Satellite position is included in the clock's display for delay corrections to the received time. A discussion of the generation,
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