Time synchronization with Labview and Fieldpoint

[rchill]

I have a PC running Labview 6.1 connected to two Fieldpoint Network Modules (FP-2000 and FP-2010). If the Fieldpoint devices reference the PC as their time server, how well are the time stamps synchronized? The time stamps seem to be logged with millisecond precision. Is there any way that this can be improved? I was able to get more accurate timing of events occuring on the PC by using some Windows API functions. Can I do anything similar for events occuring on the Fieldpoint modules?

[Matthew_Williams]

In an application that required only several second synchronization accuracy between the PC and the Fieldpoint modules we found less than desireable results with the built in time server. We would sometimes see significantly wrong times (i.e. Dec. 1903) in the Fieldpoint timestamps. Finally turned off the time server (0.0.0.0 in the configuration) and built time synchronization into the application.

Matt