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White Rabbit Starting Kit

wr-starting-kit-v2.0 is released

The second wr-starting-kit release is now available and it is tagged wr-starting-kit-v2.0 !!! The pdf can be found here: wr-starting-kit-v2.0.pdf It has been tested under Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 12.04 (LTS versions), and Seven Solutions now ship it with a USB pendrive to test it without any installation.

Conv TTL Blocking - Gateware

Gateware v2.2 release

Gateware v2.2 is now released. It fixes a bug whereby a pulse was generated on startup when the board is in TTL-BAR repetition mode and with the glitch filter on. The bug was due to an issue in the first pulse inhibit logic inside the pulse generator block.

Conv TTL Blocking - Gateware

Golden gateware v0.1 released

Due to the porting of code from the release development branches to the golden gateware branch, the v0.0 golden gateware did not contain a glitch filter. This issue has been fixed and is now obtainable from the golden gateware page.

Simple VME FMC Carrier SVEC

Release 2.0 of gateware available.

We are glad to announce the 2.0 release of the official SVEC gateware, including the Golden and Bootloader bitstreams. The bitstreams, documentation, instructions and change log are available on the Release 2.

E-bone SoC interconnection and cores

E-bone first stable release (time stamp 27 March 2014)

E-bone first stable release is now available from the FILES section. The specification moves to revision 1.3. Extensive tests have been run on different hardware platforms. More specifically dumping large (DDR) memory blocks to the PCIe root complex

Getting Started with the SPEC

Release v1.0 (March, 2014) published

After being reviewed & corrected, the first official version of the Getting Started with the SPEC project has been released. You can get the code for this release from the repository by using the “spec-getting-started-v1.

White Rabbit

04-03-2014: Greetings from Siberia!

We received the following message from DESY who has a test setup for the HiSCORE-Tunka experiment: ?? Btw, Greetings from Siberia: our 9 WR-field stations doing an excellent job! First physics calibrations, sending a light beam over hundreds of meters to our station grid (0.

Getting Started with the SPEC

First Beta version released!

The Getting Started with the SPEC project provides a detailed tutorial on how to get ready to work with the (SPEC), including hardware deployment instructions, full required toolchain setup and a collection of step-by-step demonstrative tutorials.

FMC DTX 4CHA

Testing of the output functions of prototypes completed

Outputs have been tested by running a manchester encoded signal through the individual outputs and they have been succesfully decoded by a standard decoder module. Different output frequencies have been tested succesfully as well.