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CernFIP

20-04-2011: 19 nanoFIP agents running continuously..>>

19 NFTC boards have been received and are all running continuously in our lab!

FPGA Configuration Space

Initial Draft of Specifications

The initial draft of the specifications for the FPGA configuration space has been released. You can grab a copy at: https://www.ohwr.org/project/fpga-config-space/blob/master/sdwb.pdf Comments and criticism are welcome :-)

OHR Support

OHWR maintenance on 2011-04-29 morning (Friday)

added by Enrique García on 2011-04-27 10:52:11.382028 Hello everyone, The ohwr site will be under maintenance next Friday morning. On this update, we’ll be updating the libraries that handle Git integration with OHWR.

White Rabbit Switch - Software

wr-switch-software will now undergo major revision

Exploiting an exceptionally quiet perion in svn activities, I pushed the current software code before I’ll start merging quite some stuff in this repository. Build scripts, testing and such stuff will be integrated, but I’ll take a few days (up to a week) before I may really push to

EtherBone Core

version from workshop demo uploaded

-Repo file clean up and renaming done -Serialiser/Deserialiser to/from std_logic_vector implemented as top_level EB_CORE_std_lgc_vec.vhd TODO: - cleanup code according to style guide - rename signals with new nomenclature - minor performance improvements

VME FMC Carrier VFC

11-04-2011: small production finds assembly problems

To allow other people to start developments for the VFC card, ten additional boards have been produced. During the assembly, problems with the FMC connectors appeared that could be circumvented by using a thicker stencil (that will apply more solder) and then reworking some capacitors manually.

CernFIP

01-04-2011: Preparations for the radiation tests at PSI ☢

Preparations for nanoFIP’s radiation tests! We have decided to do the tests in two parts. A first test of 1-2 boards will take place at 15-17 April and 8-9 more boards are planned for the end of May.

FMC ADC 100M 14b 4cha

29-03-2011: V2 works on the SPEC

A first version of the firmware (single shot) has been tested on the SPEC along with a python test program. The acquired ADC data are read from DDR3 via DMA.