News
OHR Meta Project
07-06-2011: OHR in CERN Courier
The CERN Courier, aka the International Journal of High-Energy Physics has a full article titled Hardware joins the open movement describing the Open Hardware Repository, the CERN Open Hardware Licence and the White Rabbit timing protocol.
FMC Carrier tester
01-06-2011: design files verified, can start production
The schematics and PCB design files have been verified by CERN’s design office. We will produce soon 12 cards. The FMC carrier tester will be used for the production tests of the SPEC FMC carrier.
Simple PCIe FMC carrier SPEC
31-05-2011: Production test software working
For the production of the SPEC cards specific production software has been written and demonstrated. This software provides a simple go/no-go interface with logging facilities to easily find production errors. The software is written in Python and uses a CERN-written test environment called Bakara.
FMC TDC 1ns 5cha
30-05-2011: 3 prototypes assembled
Three prototypes of the Time to Digital converter have been built. We made a start of the VHDL coding for use on the SPEC PCI Express FMC carrier.
CernFIP
20-05-2011: nanoFIP wiki pages revamped
We have updated our wiki pages! We hope you will have an easier navigation :-) please report any inconvenience or broken link!
Simple PCIe FMC carrier SPEC
13-05-2011: V2 ready. Pre-production boards will be built.
The layout of the V2 of the SPEC board is ready. It is an improvement of version “1.1”. We will build 3 of these pre-production boards before we will order 70 boards.
CernFIP
09-05-2011: 6th WorldFIP insourcing meeting
Presentation of nanoFIP’s progress followed by a discussion with the users. Minutes-of-6th-meeting
Simple PCIe FMC carrier SPEC
11-05-2011: Design review of V2 held
Five engineers have reviewed version 2 of the SPEC card. Many small changes have been made to make the board better producable. E.g. instead of 23 resistor values only 10 will be needed.
nanoFIP Test Board
12-04-2011: 20 V2 cards received
20 NFTC boards pre-validated at HLP have been received and are now being tested