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White Rabbit

White Rabbit presented in CERN's fieldbus WG

WR was successfully presented in CERN’s fieldbus working group. You can find the slides and some pictures, including the latest and greatest 18-port switch box at https://www.ohwr.org/project/white-rabbit/wikis/Documents/White-Rabbit-as-a-fieldbus-(presentation)

Simple PCIe FMC carrier SPEC

05-01-2012: 70 SPEC cards produced in 2011

In the year 2011 the company Creotech has produced and sold fifty SPEC boards. With the twenty cards from the pre-production of the seventy that CERN has ordered from the company Seven Solutions, in total seventy SPEC boards have been produced in 2011.

Simple PCIe FMC carrier SPEC

11-11-2011: 20 cards commercially produced

The pre-series of the first commercial series production of SPEC cards has succeeded. After repairing some assembly problem with the FMC connector, all twenty cards passed the test on the test bench that was prepared by CERN.

FMC DIO 5ch TTL a

07-11-2011: 5ch Digital I/O commercially available

The 5 channel digital I/O FMC module will be commercialised by the Spanish company Seven Solutions in Spain. This same company produces the SPEC board and is currently developing the White Rabbit switch.

FMC ADC 100M 14b 4cha

03-11-2011: FMC ADC in company's catalog

The FMC ADC 100M 14b 4cha FMC card designed at CERN is available as a product in the catalog of the Dutch company INCAA Computers. It is the first CERN Open Hardware product that is available this way.

Simple PCIe FMC carrier SPEC

13-10-2011: CE EMC tests will be made

CERN has placed an order for EMC testing according to EN 55022(2006) /A1(2007) + EN 55024(1998)/A1 (2001)/A2(2003). Once these tests are done, it will allow the board to carry the CE approval.

FMC ADC 100M 14b 4cha

10-10-2011: Feedback from fabricator improves design

INCAA, the company who will make the first series production of the ADC card, reviewed the design before production. They found a problem in the schematics (the 6 Volt rail could be 6.

FMC ADC 100M 14b 4cha

20-09-2011: Production of 40 cards starts

After a succesful price enquiry, CERN has decided to use the company INCAA Computers in The Netherlands to produce 40 FMC ADC cards. They will be delivered in January 2012. CERN needs to finalise the production test software still before shipping a test bench to INCAA.

Optical Clock and Data Recovery FMC

has entered the open hardware repository

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