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Learn More About Our Power Utility Timing Systems


The modern smart grid is a highly distributed architecture that is dependent on accurate timing for coordination, protection and control systems. Our portfolio of power utility timing systems (formerly the Tekron portfolio) provides a full selection of GNSS time servers for every substation timing application.  Our products are designed to meet stringent environmental-hardening requirements for power utility substation deployment.   

GridTime™ 3000 GNSS Time Server


  • Next-generation digital substation clock
  • Fully hardened design
  • Support for legacy and digital substation timing interfaces
  • Network Time Protocol (NTP) and Precision Time Protocol (PTP) support for power utility needs
  • Future-proof platform 

Tekron Products


In 2020, Microchip acquired Tekron International Limited, a global leader in providing high-precision GPS and atomic clock time-keeping technologies and solutions for the smart grid and other industrial applications.

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Power Utility Timing Systems -  White Papers and Publications


Date
Title
31 Oct 2014 Best Practices in Substation Time Synchronization Download
01 Oct 2014 Solving Electrical Substations Timing Problems - Thai Download
31 May 2020 Full Digital Substation with Process Bus - Time Synchronization Best Practices Download
01 Oct 2014 Solving Electrical Substations Timing Problems - Vietnamese Download
04 Sep 2017 (Almost) Everything You Need to Know About IRIG-B Time Sync Download
10 Dec 2020 Solving Electrical Substation Timing Problems Download

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