The FMC PCIe Carrier called SPEC7 is an FMC carrier that can hold one FMC card and an SFP connector.
This board uses a Xilinx Zynq FPGA with Dual-Core ARM processor integrated and is optimised for low jitter and cost and is usable with most of the FMC cards designed within the OHR project (e.g. ADC cards, Fine Delay).
The design is done in a collaboration between NIKHEF (NL) and CERN as both need a card with a similar functionality.

The SPEC7 is the follow-up of the SPEC of which the design started in 2010 and for which certain components are obsolete.
Boards with a very similar architecture are available for the VME bus (SVEC - Simple VME FMC Carrier) and for the PXI Express bus (SPEXI - Simple PXI express FMC Carrier Board).
Other FMC projects and the FMC standard are described in FMC Projects.

The SPEC7. It was meant to be a follow-up of the SPEC board.

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