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White Rabbit Switch

WR Switch firmware release v4.0 is out

We are happy to announce that the stable v4.0 release of the WR Switch firmware is out. As usual you can find all the links to download the firmware binaries and manuals on our release wiki page:

White Rabbit Switch

wr-switch-sw release 4.0 rc1

we finally tagged wr-switch-sw-v4.0-rc1 and made an official release. What is it? wr-switch-sw It is the package for the complete “firmware” that runs in a white rabbit switch. It includes all the ARM software in source form, the

FMC POF 10M R3ch T1ch

Consolidation of Alpha Design

The alpha version (called FIBRE3IN1OUT) made by F. Aglietti for the CERN PS power control system is being consolidated and formatted ready for intial release to the OHWR.

FMC POF 10M R4ch

Consolidation of Alpha Design

The alpha version (called FIBRE4IN) made by F. Aglietti for the CERN SPS power control system is being consolidated and formatted ready for initial release to the OHWR.

Simple VME FMC Carrier SVEC

Release 2.0 of gateware available.

We are glad to announce the 2.0 release of the official SVEC gateware, including the Golden and Bootloader bitstreams. The bitstreams, documentation, instructions and change log are available on the Release 2.

White Rabbit

04-03-2014: Greetings from Siberia!

We received the following message from DESY who has a test setup for the HiSCORE-Tunka experiment: ?? Btw, Greetings from Siberia: our 9 WR-field stations doing an excellent job! First physics calibrations, sending a light beam over hundreds of meters to our station grid (0.

FMC DTX 4CHA

Testing of the output functions of prototypes completed

Outputs have been tested by running a manchester encoded signal through the individual outputs and they have been succesfully decoded by a standard decoder module. Different output frequencies have been tested succesfully as well.

White Rabbit Node

The White Rabbit PTP Core v2.1 release is out

This is the first official release with PPSI as the WR PTP engine. The release is indicated with wrpc-v2.1 git tag inside wr-cores and wrpc-sw repositories. With the release we provide: documentation on how to build and run the core, complete source code tarball and the binaries ready to be downloaded into the FPGA.

Simple PCIe FMC carrier SPEC

18-12-13: Labview drivers for SPEXI and SPEC

The company INCAA has written Labview drivers for the FMC DEL 1ns 4cha and FMC TDC 1ns 5cha mezzanine cards. These drivers work both for the PCIe-based SPEC carrier and PXIe-based SPEXI carrier board.