News
HiCCE-FMC-128
Alpha board is mostly working.
It looks like the alpha_0 is (mostly) working. Still ironing a few kinks.
Andres and Maria Liz have carried out electrical tests on Sanjee’s alpha board, and have written stub FPGA code that allows to read from any channel.
White Rabbit
7-5-2013: Job offer for developer
Embedded Systems Developer, MSc or Diploma in electronics,
computer-science or equivalent
GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt,
Germany.
The main task for the position is the development of a high-precision time synchronization and event distribution system based on White Rabbit PTP, in particular the development of VHDL or embedded software that is required to bridge the gap from FPGAs to higher levels of the control system stack.
TimEX3
Our first board designed with KiCad finished and validated
The TimEX3 board is now in use at SOLEIL. It was designed with the open
source EDA KiCad.
Overall, our experience with KiCad was positive. It was easy to learn
and to use, especially compared to some commercial software.
We didn’t encounter any major problem or bug and the development of the
board progressed almost flawlessly.
White Rabbit core collection
White Rabbit Core hands-on course published
The slides and code examples for the CERN White Rabbit Core Hands-on Training are available here
More will come after the 2nd day of the training.
White Rabbit
21-02-2013: GSI receives V3.3 switches
GSI in Germany has received their first production quality V3.3 switches. They were connected to V3.2 switches (upstream) and to another node (downstream) and it worked in a plug and play fashion. GSI was also happy to see that their input for improvements to the switch were all taken into account.
White Rabbit
24-01-2013: switch passes CE label tests
The White Rabbit switch v3.3. passed successfully all the electrical tests related with power, electrical safety, labels, etc… related to the CE label for industrial facilities. Last year it had already passed all the EMI tests (emission, etc).
Simple PCIe FMC carrier SPEC
16-01-2013: Production test improved
Open Hardware doesn’t stop at just having a good hardware design. We at CERN believe it is also important to provide a good production test system with the hardware to ease the manufacturing process. For this we have set up a testing environment, called PTS.
White Rabbit
10-01-2013: LHAASO extends WR usage to 7344 nodes
LHAASO, the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observation project will be deploying 10,000 detectors over 1 square km in China. LHAASO has confirmed using WRhite Rabbit for all detectors, including WCDA. The total number of nodes increased to 7344 via 583 WR switches. Four subsystems should be separated via VLAN, and the redundancy configurations similar to CERN should be applied.
FMC DEL 1ns 4cha
09-01-2013: 70 Fine Delay FMC cards shipped
INCAA Computers in the Netherlands has produced and tested seventy Fine Delay FMC cards. These cards have a resolution better than 1 ns.