News
White Rabbit Switch - Software
release candidate 3 of wr-switch-sw
The complete software support for the switch is almost ready. Several switches are operational in production. The official release is expected to happen in a few days, after we compete the review/update
SDB - Self-describing Bus
SDB Specification Version 1.0 is released
The tag sdb-v1.0 has been in the reposity since July 24th 2012, and now the specification is available on our document section (Document).
FPGA Configuration Space
sdb-v1.0.pdf is out
The tag sdb-v1.0 has been in the reposity since July 24th, and now the pdf is available from the “files” tab of the project.
CernFIP
30-07-2012: Microsemi First Articles validated ✓
For the validation, we have: 1) Run nanoFIP JTAG VERIFY cycles: one of the boards was acting as the target TAP, and another was receiving JTAG frames corresponding to the VERIFY_6A11.
CernFIP
12-06-2012: ProASIC3 components purchase $-)
2 x (5'000 A3P400-PQG208 devices from the same wafer lot) have been purchased! The first batch of 5'000 devices is expected at the end of September 2012. The second batch of 5'000 devices, all programmed as nanoFIPs (ohwr.
CernFIP
23-07-2012: Microsemi First Articles arrived ☜
We just received from Microsemi 5 first In House Programmed ProASIC3 FPGAs (according to the Microsemi/ Actel First Article protocol) They are being soldered on 5 NFTC testing boards , they will be tested in our lab and then the green light for the IHP of 5'000 devices will be given.
FPGA Configuration Space
The specification is published
The current specification is available in pdf format here . It is “final” because we already have gateware in place that uses it. We are still refining some details and we’ll soon add a complete
White Rabbit Standardization
WR submission accepted for the Special Session of ISPCS2012
The Special Session of ISPCS2012 is devoted to the revision of IEEE1588-2008 standard. In other words, all the proposals/suggestions for changes to be included in version 3 of the PTP standard will be presented there.