News
White Rabbit
7-11-2014: VLBI workshop presents 4 x WR
The Third International VLBI Technology Workshop will feature four presentations (out of 55) and one poster that feature 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 Switch - Software
wr-switch-sw-v4.1.1
This release fixes a few problems we found in the release 4.1 - upgrading from v4.0 was not actually preserving the MAC address - upgrading from v4.0 without a management USB connection was going
White Rabbit
13-10-2014: Workshop presentations available
The Eighth White Rabbit Workshop was held at CERN on 6 and 7 October 2014. It discussed applications and developments of the White Rabbit project. All the presentations are available at the Workshop page.
White Rabbit Switch - Software
WR Switch Software v4.1
The release includes support for the new motherboard (a.k.a. scb). It include SDB support for hardware identification, an update procedure that can replace the boot loader, better code in the web server and
Furnarius Rufus PCB Milling Machine
FR PCB Milling Machine V1.0 Released
We would like to invite all interested in open hardware to help us build a community of users, makers, and developers around an Open Source Printed Circuit Board prototyping machine.
Conv TTL Blocking - Gateware
Gateware v3.0 release
The CONV-TTL-BLO gateware now uses the converter board common gateware as a sub-module and implements external logic to adapt for levels needed by this module. These are the differences from the previous version:
USB ADC 2k 12b 4ch DAC 2k 10b 2ch dio 8ch
Documentation files
We have set-up a wiki page describing the 3 different versions of hardware, and we have uploaded the necessary files (schematics, assembly drawing, BOM, and GerberX) for the OEM PCB version.
USB ADC 2k 12b 4ch DAC 2k 10b 2ch dio 8ch
Initial set-up
We have set-up the first page of the wiki as well as the overview page. The actual device is completed, and prototypes are available.
White Rabbit
15-09-2014: WR part of NI's long-term strategy
Jim Truchard, president, CEO and cofounder of National Instruments said in his keynote speech at NI week: Technology from advanced-physics research institute CERN will form part of National Instruments’ long-term strategy to improve the ability of distributed systems to support real-time control.