Hi,
I am testing the Intel I210 TSN Card (AVB). By measuring the Propagation Delays between a PC and a switch, it appears that the values are lower for 100 Mb/s speed link than for 1 Gb/s speed.
Link Delay PC-> Switch Switch -> PC
1 m cable: 100 Mb/s 86 ns 82 ns
1 Gb/s 220 ns 212 ns
25 m cable: 100 Mb/s 194 ns 192 ns
1 Gb/s 305 ns 303 ns
It's quite strange. I wonder if this result comes from the RX and TX PHY compensations applied to the Timestamps.
Indeed, PHY compensations defined by Intel are :
100 Mb/s 1 Gb/s
TX PHY Compensation: 1044 ns 184 ns
RX PHY Compensation: 2133 ns 382 ns
Questions are:
- How RX & TX PHY are computed?
- How we can explain the above measured values?
- What is the "correct" PDelay?
Thanks to answer if you have done the same type of testing ou have ideas about that.
Have a nice day.
Patrick