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FMC ADC 100M 14b 4cha

4-08-2010: The board is working

Since mid July we have one board plugged in on Xilinx development kit and powered. Two channels are working as limited by Xilinx development kit clock connections (we’ll change our FMC connections on a V2 to cope with this).

Conv TTL NIM 3in 30out

7-7-2010: Schematics ready

The schematics is now ready for review. Check the schematics review page Schematics review.

White Rabbit

Report on measuring propagation delay in FPGAs published

See the report at http://www.nikhef.nl/pub/services/biblio/technicalreports/ETR2010-01.pdf

Simple PCIe FMC carrier SPEC

23-06-2010: Project started

After having seen the complexity of the FMC PCI carrier project, with its many resources that are likely not used for many applications and that increase the cost, it has been decided to make a cost optimised version of this card.

FMC DEL 1ns 4cha

15-06-2010: Functional system specification review held.

A review of the functional system specification has been held. It resulted in some minor clarifications and in the simplification that input pulses will be ignored until the previous input pulse delay has expired.

FMC ADC 100M 14b 4cha

28-05-2010: The board is a beauty!

For bringing the SMC connectors I passed by the assembly workshop and had a chance to have a look at the three assembled PCBs. The boards look really beautiful with the four rows of black Panasonic switches clearly visible.

FMC ADC 100M 14b 4cha

3-05-2010: PCIe System Functional Spec process started

See HDLSPecs.

White Rabbit

Planning for basic switch design published

See SwitchPlanning2010.