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White Rabbit
White Rabbit presented in CERN's fieldbus WG
WR was successfully presented in CERN’s fieldbus working group. You can find the slides and some pictures, including the latest and greatest 18-port switch box at https://www.ohwr.org/project/white-rabbit/wikis/Documents/White-Rabbit-as-a-fieldbus-(presentation)
Simple PCIe FMC carrier SPEC
05-01-2012: 70 SPEC cards produced in 2011
In the year 2011 the company Creotech has produced and sold fifty SPEC boards. With the twenty cards from the pre-production of the seventy that CERN has ordered from the company Seven Solutions, in total seventy SPEC boards have been produced in 2011.
Simple PCIe FMC carrier SPEC
11-11-2011: 20 cards commercially produced
The pre-series of the first commercial series production of SPEC cards has succeeded. After repairing some assembly problem with the FMC connector, all twenty cards passed the test on the test bench that was prepared by CERN. The cards will be sent to CERN for a final inspection before giving the OK to produce another fifty.
FMC DIO 5ch TTL a
07-11-2011: 5ch Digital I/O commercially available
The 5 channel digital I/O FMC module will be commercialised by the Spanish company Seven Solutions in Spain. This same company produces the SPEC board and is currently developing the White Rabbit switch. These three modules together can be used to demonstrate the performance of a White Rabbit timing network. All these modules are available under the CERN Open Hardware Licence, meaning that any company may produce and commercialise these designs.
FMC ADC 100M 14b 4cha
03-11-2011: FMC ADC in company's catalog
The FMC ADC 100M 14b 4cha FMC card designed at CERN is available as a product in the catalog of the Dutch company INCAA Computers. It is the first CERN Open Hardware product that is available this way.
Simple PCIe FMC carrier SPEC
13-10-2011: CE EMC tests will be made
CERN has placed an order for EMC testing according to EN 55022(2006) /A1(2007) + EN 55024(1998)/A1 (2001)/A2(2003). Once these tests are done, it will allow the board to carry the CE approval.
FMC ADC 100M 14b 4cha
10-10-2011: Feedback from fabricator improves design
INCAA, the company who will make the first series production of the ADC card, reviewed the design before production. They found a problem in the schematics (the 6 Volt rail could be 6.2 Volt) and raised an issue about the PCB layout (thermal brakes too large). These issues were handled and also some minor improvements that we had still had in the Issues list are now included in the V5 design. INCAA will produce 40 of those boards for delivery in early January 2012.
FMC ADC 100M 14b 4cha
20-09-2011: Production of 40 cards starts
After a succesful price enquiry, CERN has decided to use the company
INCAA Computers in The Netherlands to
produce 40 FMC ADC cards. They will be delivered in January 2012. CERN
needs to finalise the production test software still before shipping a
test bench to INCAA.
This card is the second CERN Open Hardware product that will be produced
in quantity by industry. The first one was the SPEC FMC
carrier that is being produced
by Seven Solutions from Spain.
Note that according to the CERN Open Hardware
Licence any company may
produce these designs.