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White Rabbit

31-07-2017: WR Switch Production Test Suite published

For the past few months we were working with INCAA Computers BV on a new WR Switch Production Test Suite. This system allows to verify during the production or after delivery that all the components of the WR Switch hardware work properly.

White Rabbit core collection

White Rabbit PTP Core v4.1 released

We have just released v4.1 of the WR PTP Core. You can find all the links to download the reference designs binaries and documentation on our release wiki page. This release contains mainly fixes to the previous v4.

OHR Meta Project

29-06-2017: Open Doors for Universal Embedded Design

The article Open Doors for Universal Embedded Design in Embedded Systems Engineering, written by Caroline Hayes, Senior Editor, reads: Charged with finding cost-effective integration for multicore platforms, the European Union’s (EU) Artemis EMC2 project finished at the end of May this year.

White Rabbit

19-06-2017: WR Job vacancy at CERN

CERN has opened a vacancy for a job that is very much White Rabbit related, for applications which need extreme precision: Design Engineer - Analogue electronics

sfp-plus-i2c

SaFariPark now open for public

SaFariPark is not a site to book holidays on the African plains - though with additional personal funding I am willing to add that feature. It is a software tool to read and write the digital interface of SFP/SFP+ transceiver modules.

Hdlmake

HDLMake version 3.0 promoted to Master

HDLMake 3.0 After a massive refactoring & upgrade process, we have finally published the brand-new HDLMake 3.0 version. This version not only sports a whole set of new features, but has been carefully crafted so that the source code providing a common interface for the growing set of supported tools can be easily maintained.

YAM Yet Another Micro-controller

YAM first release at OHR

YAM release V1.4 is now available from CERN OHR. The core has been already used in a number of designs at ESRF . However there is still some pending work.

White Rabbit

26-04-2017: WR Job vacancy at OPNT - NL

OPNT in The Netherlands has opened a vacancy for a job that is very much White Rabbit related: R&D Manager with profile: Time&Frequency, Network synchronization, PTP White Rabbit

White Rabbit

18-04-17: clean that fibre and SFP!

The White Rabbit team at CERN organised a short course about fibre-optic cleaning and inspection*. A special fibre inspection microscope that automatically analyses the image to decide if a cable or SFP passes or fails the norms was demonstrated.