Facebook has open-sourced the precision PCIe timing card it created for its servers. It combines frequencies from a miniature atomic clock and GPS receiver, both on the card, with FPGA-based qualification that combines the two. The local clock is there for when satellite signals are not available, or are unreliable – for example during a ...

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