Northeastern-Electric-Racing / Northeastern-Electric-Racing/Calypso

Fetch accurate hardware time from CAN messages

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Rust
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Description

With the impending switch to microseconds, we wanna timestamp messages from the hardware reception of the message to increase sequencing and accuracy of our messages. Requires/blocked by https://github.com/socketcan-rs/socketcan-rs/issues/22.

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Research direction

Start by reading the linked socketcan-rs issue #22, which blocks this work, then trace how Calypso currently timestamps CAN messages. Done means timestamps represent hardware reception time with microsecond accuracy and preserve message sequencing.

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Assessment

Tech stack
rust
Domain
embedded-iot, networking
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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