4-Microchip Sync Solution Update (230805) .Rev1

Sync Solution Update
A Leading Provider of Smart, Connected and Secure Embedded Control Solutions

Agenda
• 5G Deployments Worldwide
• Timing Technology
• Collaboration Cases
• Solution Update
• BlueSky
• Cesium
• TP4100
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5G Worldwide
Key Customer Priorities
TimeProvider 4100
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TimeProvider® 4100 Series Worldwide
5G Momentum - Record FY23
• 13,000+ units to date

• New large wins
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Family for End-to-End Deployment
vPRTC for 5G Resilient Timing
Bidirectional PTP Timing Flows
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Collaboration Cases
USA Tier 1 Architecture
TP4100 Connected to:

• TP5000s at core for APTS
• Pooled 4G BBUs (G.8275.2)
• 5G Radios with G.8275.1
• 5G Dus (BBU) with G.8275.1
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Gateway Clock for Fronthaul Gateway and Aggregation
BBU/DU
BBU/DU
BBU/DU
TP5000
FHG
G.8275.2
G.8275.1
PTP from
TP5000 APTS
FHG
Packet Network
G.8275.1 TP4100 G.8275.2
G.8275.2
BBU
CPRI
Router or Switch PTP
cRAN Hub
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Timing Technologies
Overview and Trend
Time and frequency source clocks
Source of Time
PRTC-A
+/-100 ns
PRTC-B
+/-40 ns
Primary Reference Time Clock (PRTC)
ePRTC
Rubidium +/-30 ns
Multiple days
of Holdover
Cesium
Primary Reference Clock (PRC)
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Source clock timing technology
 Self-contained, highly-reliable PRS/PRC
Antenna not required
Can be used to hold phase and time
Time-of-day not available
Cesium Atomic Clock
 Highly reliable PRS/PRTC

Roof access required for antenna
Antenna cable delay compensation required
GPS Timing Receiver Time-of-day available
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PRS/PRTC – Global Positioning System, GPS
Satellites are in half

synchronous orbit and
circle the earth twice a
day.
GPS
Receiver
All GPS satellites contain multiple Stratum 1 Cesium standards. A GPS Receiver will derive the accuracy of the
Cesium on the satellites and provide a very stable Stratum 1 clock and accurate time, traceable to UTC. The GPS
satellites circle the earth twice a day. Because of this, the GPS Receiver needs to calculate its geographic position, so it
knows when the next satellite is in view. The more Accurate the position fix the more the more accurate the timing.
Network Synchronization - Technology
NTP/PTP telecom Applications
Why Two Time Transfer Protocols
NTP Applications PTP Applications
• SLA verification • SLA verification
• One Way Delay Measurements • One Way Delay Measurements
• Network Management • Circuit Emulation
• Time Stamped Events • PTP clients for T1 Reconstruction
• IPTV Microsoft Media Room • Mobile Backhaul
• STB (Set Top Boxes) and Video servers • Circuit Emulation
• Next Generation Elements • Frequency Stability for G.8275.1
• IMS, Media and Signaling Gateways routers and switches
• Data Centers • LTE Base Stations
• Servers • UTC Traceable time/phase and
Frequency
• Security
• Time sensitive networking (TSN)
• IPSec tunneling
• gPTP profile
• Authentication
The NTP/PTP Trade-Off and Decision Points
Accuracy Effort
NTP delivers
millisecond Milliseconds Best Effort NTP is easy to
accuracy implement
PTP can deliver Microseconds QoS PTP requires effort

sub-microsecond depending on
desired accuracy
accuracy
Nanoseconds Resources Boundary Clocks
Transparent Clocks
5G New Radio (5G NR) Time Division Duplex (TDD)
Mobility and Fixed Wireless Broadband

Global operators, LTE private networks (Govt/military, power, corporate)
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Timing is critical Interference issues Open RAN evolution
Frequency Band Spectrum Use Case

Low <1 GHz 2G 3G 4G 5G
Mid 1-2.6 GHz 2G 3G 4G 5G
Mid C Band 3.5-6 GHz 4G 5G
High mmWave 24-40 GHz 5G
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Megan Walton - C34231, 1/29/2021
5G Source and Distribution of PTP Timing
Timing +/- 1.5 microseconds
Source of Time Transport Network Application
PRTC-A BC Class CPRI

+/-100 ns 400 ns
A<50 NS
PRTC-B B<20 NS
+/-40 ns eCPRI
PRC C<10 NS
5G NR Enhanced RU
Cesium D<5 NS
ePRTC 80 ns 35 ns
+/-30 ns
When using network-based timing services a time error

budget is allocated to the source, network and application
PRTC
GNSS timing receiver
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Network Based Timing Services PTP Profiles
Partial On Path Support Full On Path Support

G.8275.2 PTP profile G.8275.1 PTP profile
• L3 unicast PTP goes through the • L2 multicast PTP is terminated at one side of
switches/routers and QoS is used to switch/router and regenerated on the other
differentiate PTP traffic from data traffic side with a Boundary Clock function
• DSCP markings of 46 or higher recommended • Boundary Clocks have classes (A-B-C-D) for
for PTP flows levels of time error mitigation in the switches
• Assisted Partial On Path Support (APTS) is a PTP • Every switch in the PTP path is a BC
network-based timing service used as a GNSS • Synchronous Ethernet (SyncE) is
proxy backup recommended for Full On Path Support
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Relative and Absolute timing alignment
• Relative time and phase alignment
• 5G carrier aggregation requires 260 or 130 nanoseconds relative phase timing
alignment
• A user handset connected to two different 5G TDD component carriers requires
the component carriers to be phase aligned compared to each other
• Component carriers in same or two different radios
• Absolute time and phase alignment
• 5G TDD technology requires +/-1.5 microsecond absolute timing alignment
• Radios in the same spectrum will interfere with each other if they do not transmit
in their assigned time slots
The position of two people in the same building can be relative (compared
to each other) or absolute (GPS coordinates)
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Enhanced Primary Reference Time Clock (ePRTC)
• ePRTC specifications
• Accuracy with GNSS <+/- 30 Nanoseconds UTC
• Holdover <100 nanoseconds UTC 14 days
• Typically, 60 to 90 days
• Microchip ePRTC compliance report available
• ePRTC use cases
• Virtual Primary Reference Clock (vPRTC)
• Set time to within UTC 100 nanoseconds to create a PRTC location
• Assisted Partial Timing Support (APTS)
• Hold time to create a GNSS proxy at a PRTC location
Virtual Primary Reference Clock (vPRTC) is a Virtual Autonomous Time Scale Distribution System
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Enhanced and Virtual Primary Reference Time Clocks
ePRTC Source of Time vPRTC
• ITU Standard G.8272.1 • Concept, not a standard
• Timing system • PRTC with no GNSS
• Components • Components
• ePRTC source clocks
• GNSS Firewall/Mgmt
• Optical or OTN network
• Optional
• PRTC (virtual)
• GNSS timing receiver • PTP from ePRTC to vPRTC
• ePRTC algorithms
• Cesium atomic clock
• Source clock 30 nanoseconds • vPRTC 100 nanoseconds

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vPRTC for GNSS Vulnerability and Resilient Timing
Centralized Timing Architecture
Multidirectional Multidirectional
Timing Flows Timing Flows
ePRTC/PRTC B ePRTC/PRTC B
GNSS + Cesium GNSS + Cesium
Firewall
Firewall
Bidirectional PTP Timing Flows
PTP PTP
West
Class C BC < 5 hops, Class D BC < 20 hops East
HPBC
HPBC HPBC
HPBC High Performance PTP G.8275.1 No GNSS
Boundary Clock Southbound
PRTC 100
vPRTC vPRTC
nanoseconds
timing timing
Timing Flow
Services Services
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Optical Timing Channel Vs Optical Supervisory
Channel Bidirectional
Optical Timing Channel
T-BC / 3R
over single fiber
DWDM Transponders DWDM Transponders
OTC Filters
DWDM Traffic
DWDM Traffic
Mux/Demux ROADM Optical OSC ILA OSC Optical ROADM Mux/Demux
Amps Filters Filters Amps
Node
DWDM Node A DWDM Node B
Optical Supervisory Channel
over two fibers
Optical Supervisory Channel: Optical Timing Channel:

• Main purpose – node-to-node management • Dedicated channel optimised for timing/sync
communications performance
• Secondary purpose – Optional use for timing • Used by Microchip and Infinera in OTC2.0
• Used by many vendors
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Main Methods for Accurate PTP transfer
Distribution over Long Distance
• OTC - Optical Timing Channel
• leverages dedicated lambda for
timing and optical splitters &
CWDM filters to by-pass ROADM
• OSC – Optical Supervisory

Channel
• SFPs depend on operator

choice and optical vendor, we
are agnostic
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What are the Next Hot Topics
Improve ePRTC Holdover
Reduce the learning

and locked phase
Enhance holdover
Locked days/Holdover
6/6
14/14
30/30
40/40
Official Consent target in
December 2023
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What are the Next Hot Topics?
Coordinated Cesiums
Excellent capabilities
BUT Requires dual Cesium at same site
Compelling value prop for customers

Can leverage installed base remote Cesiums
Enhanced holdover and resiliency
Not cnPRTC (does not eliminate GNSS)!!
Cesium A Cesium B
DWDM
TP4100 TP4100
SyncE
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National Metrology Lab as a Source
• Metrology Labs may only have
1PPS and 10MHz outputs, no
ToD
• TP4100 ePRTC & Gateway
clock now allow combination :
• 1PPS
• any ToD epoch as a Time source :
a) NTP, b) PTP, c) GNSS, d) ToD e)
manual time.
• Two Scenarios for official time
• TP4100 at country time institute
• TP4100 at customer connected to
time institute
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cnPRTC • Not a standard yet, NO ONE has cnPRTC, we are NOT LATE
• Joint article to be published in April ’23, Standard ‘24 or
later
• cnPRTC requires multiple products, it is an architecture
• ePRTC TP4100 units are the cornerstone of cnPRTC
• Agreement Algorithm is main piece of innovation (software
on server)
• Atomic Clock Systems (Cesiums and/or successors)
• Total of 6 : 2x local dual Cesium, 2xCesiums on E direction,
2xCesium on W direction
• TP4xxx units used in long distance mesh
• What are customers doing to prepare for cnPRTC

• Country-wide planning
• Buy Cesiums
• Buy ePRTC systems
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White Rabbit
• Real question : what do customers need?
• What level of accuracy do they really need?
• High accuracy is the need
• White Rabbit is an example of how to achieve it
• We now meet 1ns !!! Sufficient for 99% of

customers today
• TP4100 v2.3.12 and above : 15ns for a chain of 15 HP BC
• Equates to 1ns per hop for the whole chain
• TP4100 today is much better than class D
• Future we will support pico seconds

• Requires TP4xxx
• Hardware changes needed
This is a comparison
by a customer • TP4100 and TP4xxx are alternatives to White
Rabbit implementation
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BlueSky Firewall 2200
Update
BlueSky GNSS Firewall Deployment models
Firewall using Firewall using Firewall deployed for monitoring, not

Validated Output Hardened Output in GPS signal path
Optional Cesium
GPS Splitter
Optional MAC
Validated
Hardened
Rb
SyncServer S600/S650
Equipment requiring
Equipment requiring GPS/L1 signal
GPS/L1 signal
RF Power Detection – example of a “knock-off”
 GPS RF Power level operates at a very low signal
level (both SNR and C/No)
 Typically, when connected to antenna, signal is in

the 60db to 90db range
 Knock-off signals are small power shifts, just

enough to take over the reception of the receiver
(can also occur for relatively short periods of time)
 BlueSky Performance monitoring in

TImePictra shows characteristics of
knock-off signal
 BlueSky GNSS Firewall Dashboard

is also convenient for seeing alarm
condition
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Time Jump Anomaly
 Timing anomalies can be both sudden jumps in time or
more gradual time shifts
 The timescale internal in the BlueSky GNSS Firewall is the
detector for identifying these anomalies
300nS jump
 When detected, the firewall continues to operate using its
internal timescale
Anomaly detected; however

Timescale remains stable
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Position Movement Anomaly
 Anomaly position detector can be set to
the desired threshold, for example 10
Position Movement
meters
Position Movement  Once threshold is crossed, alarm is

generated
Position Movement
Threshold set to 10meters
 BlueSky Performance Monitoring

provides time based plot of
movement
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Market Momentum
Deployments across the globe and in multiple sectors
Global Deployments
• Norway, Spain, Germany,
Israel, Canada, Mexico,
Columbia, Vietnam, Japan,
South Korea, China, USA,
India, France, Finland, South
Africa, United Kingdom,
Ireland, Netherlands, Serbia,
Libya
Critical Infrastructure Sectors

• Airports, Data Centers,
Telecom, Power Utility,
Nuclear Plants, Emergency
Services, Government
Agencies, Military/DoD,
Metrology Labs, Automotive
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BlueSky GNSS Firewall 2200 - NEW
Wider band to allow
pass-through of Beidou
BlueSky GNSS Firewall 2200 and L5
Local Console Port

L1/L2+L5 L1/L2+L5
TOD port enabled
GNSS Receiver RF Power Detection
More Features as reference for
anomaly detection
Same Price
BlueSky GNSS Firewall
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New Software Release 3.0 - NEW
• New Trusted Time Anomaly Detector
• Compare Network Time and GNSS Time at
multiple locations simultaneously
• New GPS Subframe Reference

Detection
• Compare live sky data with received data
from remote BlueSky GNSS Firewall
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GPS Subframe Reference Detection
Subframes from Remote Firewall compared to Local Firewall
Firewalls can be in:
- Different locations of building
- Different buildings
- Remote locations
- Across the globe
Subframe data sent

Remote Firewall #1 (network)
from remote firewall
vs.
Network
Local Firewall #2 (Live Sky)
Firewall #1
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Comprehensive Threat Detection
TimePictra + BlueSky GNSS Firewall provides BlueSky GNSS Firewall includes
embedded “local analysis” like
visibility across entire critical infrastructure
BlueSky Option in SyncServer
• Real-time sensing over large geographical area

• Programmable thresholds for real-time alarming
• Overlay and analyze data from multiple locations
• Centralized and historical database of GNSS data
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TimeCesium Updates
New Product
ePRC vs ePRTC
• ePRC defined in G.811.1 – • ePRTC defined in G.8272.1 –

Frequency Source Time Source
• Applies to Cesium Only • Applies to Cesium with UTC Source
• Defines: (GNSS, Grandmaster)
• Frequency Accuracy • Defines
• MTIE • Time Accuracy
• TDEV • MTIE
• TDEV
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TimeCesium Updates
• Microchip has been providing ePRTC
systems since 2020. As we have
gained experience through
manufacturing and improved
modeling, we have decided to offer
two grades of TimeCesium going
forward for ePRTC solutions with our
TP4100 and , standard performance
and enhanced performance.
• Standard performance units provide
1 holdover compliance to G.8272.1
• Enhanced performance units provide
2 holdover compliance to G.8272.1
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TimeProvider 4100
Update
TimeProvider 4100
A Track Record of Fast Paced Improvements
• V1.0 Feb’19 Gateway Clock

• V2.0 Sep ’19 10G support
• V2.1 June’20 HP BC
• V2.1.10 Aug ’20 ePRTC
• V2.2 May’21 Redundancy
And now….v2.3

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TimeProvider 4100 2.3
Recap on v2.3.8 Key Focus Areas
• Scalability
• Up to 1,000 Unicast clients at 128 pps
• Both IPv4 and IPv6 unicast profiles
• Security
• TACACS+ & Radius 2FA with full AAA.
• IEEE 1588-2019 multi-pronged security model
• Prong C: Architecture Guidance
• Prong D: Monitoring and Management Mechanisms
• Deployment Flexibility Resiliency

• Dual PTP Master profiles per port (ETH3-8 & EXP1-8)
• “Ultra Resilience” for APTS - 3 PTPc Input References,
Asymmetry, Majority Vote (IEEE 1588-2019)
• Composite Clock (CC) & Japanese Format (JCC)
• ePRTC Mode Redundancy
• 10G Expansion Module Optical Link Shutdown
• GNSS Software Enhancements
• Frequency Monitoring

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Sync Solution Update

A Leading Provider of Smart, Connected and Secure Embedded Control Solutions

4 Microchip Proprietary & Confidential

• 13,000+ units to date

Bidirectional PTP Timing Flows

TP4100 Connected to:

Cesium Atomic Clock

 Highly reliable PRS/PRTC

Satellites are in half

PTP can deliver Microseconds QoS PTP requires effort

Mobility and Fixed Wireless Broadband

Frequency Band Spectrum Use Case

MC1 lowercased words that do not need capitalization

Source of Time Transport Network Application

PRTC-A BC Class CPRI

When using network-based timing services a time error

Partial On Path Support Full On Path Support

• Source clock 30 nanoseconds • vPRTC 100 nanoseconds

DWDM Transponders DWDM Transponders

Optical Supervisory Channel: Optical Timing Channel:

• OSC – Optical Supervisory

• SFPs depend on operator

Reduce the learning

Compelling value prop for customers

• What are customers doing to prepare for cnPRTC

• We now meet 1ns !!! Sufficient for 99% of

• Future we will support pico seconds

Firewall using Firewall using Firewall deployed for monitoring, not

 Typically, when connected to antenna, signal is in

 Knock-off signals are small power shifts, just

 BlueSky Performance monitoring in

 BlueSky GNSS Firewall Dashboard

Anomaly detected; however

Position Movement  Once threshold is crossed, alarm is

 BlueSky Performance Monitoring

Critical Infrastructure Sectors

Local Console Port

• New GPS Subframe Reference

Subframe data sent

• Real-time sensing over large geographical area

• ePRC defined in G.811.1 – • ePRTC defined in G.8272.1 –

• V1.0 Feb’19 Gateway Clock

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• Deployment Flexibility Resiliency

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