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by NkVczPkybiXICG 35 days ago
Why does the title say 1ns but the body of the article says 30ns (with hopes to eventually get it down to 5)?
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The 2nd revision of the hardware is 1ns in simulation, likely 5ns in real-world scenarios. The first revision of the hardware (which I saw at NAB) is more like 30ns (with 20ps jitter, I believe).

1ns is about the best you can do with the nearly 1 GHz carrier (as mentioned in a sibling comment).

The limit of a time sync protocol is not generally directly because of the carrier frequency. It can be a lot better or a lot worse depending on many other details. (E.g. the pulse per second from a GPS receiver can give time syncs down to nanoseconds).
It's the period of the carrier wave (900MHz)?
approximately, with assumptions.

Assuming ISM band in the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISM_radio_band