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White Rabbit
WR @ ISPCS2012
ISPCS2012 conference is the PTP conference. Since WR extends PTP, it is very important for the project. At the conference, WR was very visible thanks to as many as 3 WR-related papers which were presented and our participation in the PlugFest.
White Rabbit
3-10-2012: White Rabbit studies for Spanish accelerator
After an extensive study, White Rabbit has been chosen as the most promising option for the synchronization network at ESS Bilbao, a light ion linear accelerator. Therefore, first SPEC to SPEC tests have been performed.
White Rabbit
2-10-12: White Rabbit in Tibet?
LHAASO, the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observation project will be deploying 10,000 detectors over 1 square km in Tibet. The LHAASO project has passed the technical review on the WR timing distribution plan that consists of 4 layers of WR switches (461 in total) covering the 6880 nodes of the Square Kilometer Array (KM2A).
Simple PCIe FMC carrier SPEC - Software
Release 2.0 of spec-sw, with wr-nic
I’m proud to announce version 2.0 of the spec-sw package, including wr-nic and simple-dio support with working examples. You can update your git repository, or if you miss one you can clone
White Rabbit Standardization
Temperature tests in an environmental chamber performed
White Rabbit (WR) is designed to compensate changes of the temperature of the physical medium (e.g. fiber). It has been tested and proven that such a compensation works (here) . However, since WR was presented to ITU-T in March 2012, the influence of WR devices’ temperature variation on the
PPSi
PPSi v12.08-rc1 released
First (candidate) official release is available at: https://www.ohwr.org/project/ppsi/uploads/e90a22509af65d12d98a21f12885469e/ppsi-12.08-rc1.tgz Please report any kind of problems.
CernFIP
03-09-2012: Reception of the First Batch ☜
We have just received, according to schedule, 4992 A3P400-PQG208X6 (X6 = single lot date code) devices from the same wafer lot!
White Rabbit core collection
The White Rabbit PTP Core v2.0 release is out
The release is indicated with wrpc-v2.0 git tag inside wr-cores and wrpc-sw repositories. With the release we provide: documentation on how to build and run the core, complete source code tarball with compiled documentation included and the binaries ready to be downloaded into the FPGA.
White Rabbit Switch - Software
wr-switch-sw-v3.0 is released
This release is the work of myself, Federico Vaga, Benoit Rat and Tomasz Wlostowski, in no particular order (and with contributions by others). The HDL code in the switch it mainly by Tomasz Wlostowski but