07.10.2024
In December, you can again meet us at Embedded Software Engineering Conference in Sindelfingen, and we are very proud that our colleagues Christian Wenzel-Benner and Germano Brunacci were accepted as speakers.
What it's about?
Distributed systems often need a common time base in order to function correctly. This applies to multichip embedded systems often found in cars, medical devices, home appliances, industrial and home automation...
However, the clock sources of the individual chips in the distributed system are not perfect and start drifting apart the moment the system starts up. Correcting for this using software only, although inexpensive, tends to be imprecise.
Luckily the hardware building blocks for precise synchronization are becoming increasingly available even on inexpensive mass market MCUs (eg. Raspberry Pi Pico).
Christian's and Germano's presentation introduces a practical project example demonstrating how software can exploit common hardware features in order to achieve high-precision synchronization with minimum CPU load.
We are looking forward to meeting and discussing with you!
