Oregano Systems syn1588® Dual NIC is a 2-channel PCI Express network interface card with IEEE1588 hardware support. The first function available for this brand new product will offer two independent network interfaces with high-accuracy hardware clock support following IEEE1588. Other functions for HSR and PRP will follow.

The syn1588® Dual NIC basically acts as a standard 100/1000 MBit/s PCI Express Network Interface Card (NIC) offering two independent SFP type network interfaces. Both network interfaces are enhanced to provide highly accurate clock synchronization following the IEEE1588 standard.

The syn1588® Dual NIC includes a full-featured IEEE1588 hardware clock as well as complex timestamping hardware for every of the two network interfaces. All time critical elements of an IEEE1588 system are embedded in the syn1588® Dual NIC thus removing all timing constraints from the software. There are no real-time requirements for the operating system or the software stack. Due to its special structure, the CPU load for the required IEEE1588 stack (e.g. Oregano Systems syn1588® PTP Stack) is negligible.

Beside acting as a dual network interface card with full IEEE1588 support the syn1588® Dual NIC is intended as evaluation platform for special PTP timing architectures like HSR or PRP. For these special timing architectures, Oregano Systems will offer customized PTP solutions in both hardware and software in the future.