News
Simple PCIe FMC carrier SPEC
03-07-2012: Delivery of 52 SPEC boards
It’s getting serious now as we received at CERN four boxes with in total 52 SPEC boards from the company Seven Solutions. All boards are individually packed and have an LHC barcode on it that will ease us entering the cards in our equipment database.
OHR Meta Project
27-06-2012: CERN Annual Report highlights OH initiative
CERN’s President of Council writes in his message in the CERN Annual Report 2011: “The launch of the Open Hardware Initiative follows other ‘open innovations’, such as the famous example of the web and open access in publishing.
FMC Projects
12-06-2012: ELMA produces FMC front-panels
As of June 2012, the Swiss company ELMA produces FMC front-panels. In addition, they provide a service to drill and print (even in color) the panels. For details see FMC components and design tips.
Simple PCIe FMC carrier SPEC
12-06-2012: SPEC passes EMC tests
The SPEC board together with a 5 channel Digital I/O card have passed the most restrictive EMC tests of each class (domestic and industrial) successfully: EM Radiated Emission: Class B (Domestic) EN 55022 (2006) / A1 (2007) EM Immunity (Industrial): EN 61000-4-3 (2006) / A1 (2008) / A2 (2010), EN 61000-4-4 (2004) / A1 (2010) / Corr (2010), EN 61000-4-6 (2009), EN
OHR Support
OHWR hotfix on 2012-06-04 (Tuesday) 08:00 CEST
added by Enrique GarcÃa on 2012-06-04 12:01:04.935926 Hello everyone, Tomorrow morning morning (Tuesday, July the 5th) we’ll test a new update process on the ohwr site, called “hotfix”. This new procedure should allow us to fix small bugs or add small new features while the site is running - with no “maintenance” stop.
FMC DAC 250M 16b 4cha
Hardware V2 finished
Version 2 of the hardware finished. Added HW V2 data to the repository and the new images to the wiki page. Tests will be started in the mid June..
White Rabbit Standardization
White Rabbit presented at IEEE 802.1 (AVB Gen 2) meeting
A report by Rodney on presentation of WR at IEEE 802.1 York meeting can be found here
OHR Meta Project
22-05-2012: Brazil and China join ohwr.org
ohwr.org started with projects designed in Europe and soon it was followed by the RHINO project run in South Africa. Now also projects from Brazil and China are hosted on the site.
OHR Support
OHWR maintenance on 2012-05-21 (Monday) 08:30 CEST
added by Enrique GarcÃa on 2012-05-18 10:03:46.995342 Hello everyone, Next monday morning we’ll be making a short maintenance halt on the site. This change involves a couple minor presentational and back-end fixes.