News

HiCCE-FMC-128

Alpha board is mostly working.

It looks like the alpha_0 is (mostly) working. Still ironing a few kinks. Andres and Maria Liz have carried out electrical tests on Sanjee’s alpha board, and have written stub FPGA code that allows to read from any channel.

White Rabbit

7-5-2013: Job offer for developer

Embedded Systems Developer, MSc or Diploma in electronics, computer-science or equivalent GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany. The main task for the position is the development of a high-precision time synchronization and event distribution system based on White Rabbit PTP, in particular the development of VHDL or embedded software that is required to bridge the gap from FPGAs to higher levels of the control system stack.

TimEX3

Our first board designed with KiCad finished and validated

The TimEX3 board is now in use at SOLEIL. It was designed with the open source EDA KiCad. Overall, our experience with KiCad was positive. It was easy to learn and to use, especially compared to some commercial software.

White Rabbit Node

White Rabbit Core hands-on course published

The slides and code examples for the CERN White Rabbit Core Hands-on Training are available here More will come after the 2nd day of the training.

White Rabbit

21-02-2013: GSI receives V3.3 switches

GSI in Germany has received their first production quality V3.3 switches. They were connected to V3.2 switches (upstream) and to another node (downstream) and it worked in a plug and play fashion.

White Rabbit

24-01-2013: switch passes CE label tests

The White Rabbit switch v3.3. passed successfully all the electrical tests related with power, electrical safety, labels, etc… related to the CE label for industrial facilities. Last year it had already passed all the EMI tests (emission, etc).

Simple PCIe FMC carrier SPEC

16-01-2013: Production test improved

Open Hardware doesn’t stop at just having a good hardware design. We at CERN believe it is also important to provide a good production test system with the hardware to ease the manufacturing process.

White Rabbit

10-01-2013: LHAASO extends WR usage to 7344 nodes

LHAASO, the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observation project will be deploying 10,000 detectors over 1 square km in China. LHAASO has confirmed using WRhite Rabbit for all detectors, including WCDA.

FMC DEL 1ns 4cha

09-01-2013: 70 Fine Delay FMC cards shipped

INCAA Computers in the Netherlands has produced and tested seventy Fine Delay FMC cards. These cards have a resolution better than 1 ns.