This project aims at distributing periodic (mainly clock) signals of arbitrary frequencies over a White Rabbit network. A clock is encoded at a master node and unidirectionally broadcast to any number of receiver nodes, which recover an in-phase copy of the original signal. Number of distributed clocks depends only on network bandwidth, required latency and acceptable accuracy level.

Possible applications in the accelerators are:

• Beam-synchronous timing
• RF clock distribution
• RF or beam-synchronous signal acquisition

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