6682 Board Time Windows System Time

[jschafer10272]

Does the 6682 (slot 2) Timing Controller have the capabilty that other GPS/Timing cards (Symetricomm) have in that the 6682 board time can replace or set the Windows System time residing on the PXI System Controller.  I am not talking about a piece of code that simply reads the board time and sets the Windows Time I am talking about a hardware capbility sort of transparent in the background constantly at some update rate keeping that System Time synced to the 6682 board time.

I have asked NI App Engineers but they are still researching.

thanks for any help,

JS

[Adam_U]

Out of curiosity, how do you hope to use the synchronized Windows system time? 

[jschafer10272]

Its done via the Windows API functions, problem with this technique is of course there is always a slight offset by the time we read the 6682 board time and set the local system time and that offset is somewhat dynamic not static.  For us this isn't a problem because we are just trying to achieve less than a second difference  and not sub seconds and that offset is less than a second. 

[Adam_U]

Ah, I see. This isn't something we currently support but we'll definitely add it to the list of considerations for future versions.

Thanks,

-Adam 

[jschafer10272]

I actually already went to the NI website and filled out the form for recommendations on future NI SYNC version 6682 releases upon the suggestion of NI applications engineering.