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FMC DEL 1ns 4cha
02-09-2011: V2 works
The just-arrived V2 prototype was confirmed to work with the new VHDL firmware on a SPEC card. See Measurements for details.
Simple PCIe FMC carrier SPEC - Software
New release of the spec-demo manual
The new spec-demo manual is released, in the new “software support for SPEC” ohwr package. It includes new advances in vhdl and lm32 code by Tomek and Greg. The synchronization
FMC DEL 1ns 4cha
31-08-2011: Received V2 boards
We received assembled prototypes of V2 of the fine delay module. The firmware for the Fine delay module on a SPEC card is being developed and should be ready for demonstration in around two weeks time.
Simple PCIe FMC carrier SPEC
26-08-2011: Absolutely ready for production!
The modification for a better mechanical fit has been made and halogen-PCBs will be ordered to start the first series production of SPEC boards. A serious piece of automated test software has been made that will check all soldered connections on the board and that will measure the different supply voltages.
FMC Carrier tester
24-08-2011: 5 production test cards working
Five of the FMC carrier tester cards are working. Two of them will be sent to the company that will produce the Simple PCI express carrier.
CernFIP
24-08-2011: nanoFIP exceeds 10K JTAG cycles over summer ☼
10 nanoFIP chips were left running continuously the last 3 weeks programming and verifying Actel ProASIC3 A3P250 FPGAs through JTAG. Each one of the 2 nanoFIPs running at 2.5 Mbps has completed successfully more than 10000 programming/ verification cycles.
Simple PCIe FMC carrier SPEC
22-08-2011: V3 ready, let's go for V4!
The V3 of the design was ready for production on 22 July. We’d like to produce 70 of those cards of this version, apart from the fact that a user at GSI just found a mechanical problem that could appear with a certain combination of SFP plugin and PC type.
EtherBone Core
Etherbone Dissector for Wireshark
I’ve written this a while ago to inspect the EB packets generated from my testbenches and test for conformity. This is for the not yet exisiting version 0.2, so it will need some work from Wesley
RHINO
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We now have 8 Rhino boards in the ether and a manufacturer in the US willing to provide you with you very own platform for a few $$$. We thought it would be a good time to more actively update the community on progress and the efforts of the various pioneers through social media.