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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 06, 2006
Filed:
Feb. 18, 2004
Brian A. Franchuk, Richfield, MN (US);
Roger R. Benson, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Brian A. Franchuk, Richfield, MN (US);
Roger R. Benson, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Rosemount, Inc., Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Abstract
The system has a control center, a time master device and a plurality of distributed, time slave field devices in synchronization with a master clock of the time master device. The time master device periodically transmits a time distribution data unit. Each time slave field device has a timer adjustment element, a fixed rate clock and a variable clock. The timer adjustment element calculates a frequency ratio between the master clock and the fixed rate clock and uses the frequency ratio to calculate adjustment coefficients to adjust a local sense of time for each field device, such that a time stamp of each field device is synchronized to the master clock.