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FMC ADC 200k 16b 11cha
200 ksps ADC documented
Ross Millar, student at the University of Glasgow, has worked for six months at CERN to debug the 200 ksps ADC, write firmware for it and develop a new version of the circuit board.
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)
OHR Meta Project
23-01-2012: Creotech produces 4 CERN OHR designs
The Polish company Creotech, that was already involved in the design of the SPEC PCIexpress FMC carrier, has decided to commercialise three Open Hardware designs that were initiated by CERN: SPEC, FMC ADC 100M 14b 4cha, the FMC DEL 1ns 4cha and the FMC DIO 5ch TTL a.
CERN Open Hardware Licence
18-01-2012: Call for Comments on OHL v1.2
From: cernohl-request@ohwr.org [mailto:cernohl-request@ohwr.org] On Behalf Of Myriam Ayass Sent: 18 January 2012 11:15 To: cernohl@ohwr.org Subject: CERN OHL v.1.2 Hi, Thanks to all the feedback we have received on the CERN OHL v.
CERN Open Hardware Licence
11-01-2012: CERN's Director General cites OHL
In his New Year’s presentation 2012 to all CERN’s personnel, CERN Director General Rolf Heuer devoted one slide on the CERN Open Hardware Licence. The slide reads: Implementing new IP schemes to bridge the gap between CERN and society
OHR Meta Project
13-01-2012: Journal of Instrumentation published OH article
The article Open Hardware for CERN’s Accelerator Control Systems, by E. van der Bij et al, has been published in the Journal of Instrumentation JINST Vol.7, January 2012. It presents concisely the different aspects of CERN’s Open Hardware developments.
CERN Open Hardware Licence
06-01-2012: Tinkerforge German startup uses CERN OHL
The German start-up company Tinkerforge explains its modular hardware kit at http://youtu.be/3DwzskCmTgE According to their Press release, they have chosen the CERN Open Hardware License for their designs.
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.
Gennum GN4124 core
05-01-2012: Gennum allows open publishing of modified cores
CERN has adapted for its particular applications the original GN4124 VHDL and Verilog examples from Gennum. Alan Hutton, Gennum director of Global Distribution Sales & Marketing, has given CERN the green light to publish this modified code as open source.