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OHR Meta Project
25-06-2015: Work at CERN as electronics engineer?
Electronics engineering at its best in a challenging, unusual context? Are you interested in working for the biggest accelerator complex in the world, taking responsibility for design, development and support of the hardware and HDL code of the control systems?
White Rabbit
12-06-2015: first beam with WR based timing system at GSI
GSI in Germany reported that for the first time there is a beam in the injector of CRYRING at GSI controlled by a White Rabbit based timing system. The White Rabbit system controls the beam chopper of the CRYRING linac section YRLE “[1]":https://www-acc.
OHR Meta Project
8-6-2015: Open Business Lunch about OH
“Accélération de l’innovation et partage des savoirs grâce à l’open hardware”* is the title of the speech that Javier Serrano, co-author of the CERN Open Hardware License and creator of the Open Hardware Repository will give on 12 June at the Open Business Lunch in Lausanne.
White Rabbit
VLBI Workshop presentations available
The Third International VLBI Technology Workshop featured four presentations (out of 55) with White Rabbit. These workshops, which evolved from the highly successful 10-year series of International e-VLBI workshops, aim to encompass all areas of hardware or software development relevant to VLBI.
White Rabbit
7-5-2015: article in Xcell Journal
The Xcell Journal from Xilinx features a nice article giving an 8-page introduction to the technology. White Rabbit: When Every Second Counts, Xcell Journal, Issue 91, Q2 2015. The article is written by Seven Solutions.
VXS DSP FMC carrier
04-09-2012 VXS-DSP-FMC Carrier V2
A second version of the VXS-DSP-FMC Carrier was launched after a series of tests with the V1. Main issues addressed by this new release are: DSP ICE JTAG connector pattern mirror image correction Change of FMC FPGA type from XC5VLX110T-1FFG1136C to XC5VSX95T-1FFG1136C to get 10x more DSP resources for FMC IP cores Add another XCF32PFS48C prom to support the new FPGA type Bug fixes in power connections Change power inductor L8 for one with a 5A rating.
VXS DSP FMC carrier
06-08-2013 VXS-DSP-FMC Carrier V3
A third version of the VXS-DSP-FMC Carrier was launched after a series of tests with the V2. The pre-series of V2 prototype boards already achieved full functionality but required minor hardware tweaks to be functional.
VXS DSP FMC carrier
February 2014 First Series Production
A series production of 25 VXS-DSP-FMC Carrier modules intended for the PSB Booster and for MedAustron was being received and tested. Of these modules 5 had issues, the rest is operational.
VXS DSP FMC carrier
October 2014 Second Batch Series Production
A second batch of 10 additional modules was being received and tested. One module out of 10 was inoperable.