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GBT-based Expandable Front-End GEFE
The GEFE project @ BI Technical Board (09/09/15)
The status and outlook of the GEFE project have been presented during the BI Technical Board meeting on the 09/09/15 at CERN
The slides of the presentation can be downloaded from the “DOCUMENTS” section of this site.
White Rabbit Switch - Software
WR Switch firmware v4.2 released
After some months of hard work we’re happy to announce a brand new v4.2 stable firmware release for the WR Switch. It is full of new features and stability improvements. As usual, you can find all the links to download the firmware binaries and manuals on our release wiki page.
White Rabbit Switch - Software
v4.2-RC2 is available for testing
After some months of work we would like to share with you release
candidate 2 for the upcoming WR Switch firmware v4.2. You can find
the
binaries
and
manual
in the Files section.
GBT-based Expandable Front-End GEFE
The GEFE project @ RadWG meeting (02/07/15)
The GEFE project has been presented during the Radiation Working Group (RadWG) meeting on the 02/07/15 at CERN
The slides of the presentation can be downloaded from the “DOCUMENTS” section of this site.
White Rabbit
12-06-2015: first beam with WR based timing system at GSI
GSI in Germany reported that for
the first time there is a beam in the injector of CRYRING at GSI
controlled by a White Rabbit based timing system.
The White Rabbit system controls the beam chopper of the CRYRING linac
section YRLE
“[1]":https://www-acc.gsi.de/wikis/Timing/TimingSystemGroupsAndMachines#CRYRING
and triggers the data acquisition of beam instrumentation to detect the
signal of the pulsed beam after the chopper
“[2]":https://www-acc.gsi.de/wikis/pub/Timing/WebHome/YRT1DC2_2015-06-09_16-28-26.049.png.
White Rabbit
VLBI Workshop presentations available
The Third International VLBI Technology
Workshop featured four presentations (out
of 55) with White Rabbit.
These workshops, which evolved from the highly successful 10-year series
of International e-VLBI workshops, aim to encompass all areas of
hardware or software development relevant to VLBI.
White Rabbit
7-5-2015: article in Xcell Journal
The Xcell Journal from Xilinx features a nice article giving an 8-page
introduction to the technology.
White Rabbit: When Every Second Counts, Xcell
Journal,
Issue 91, Q2 2015.
The article is written by Seven Solutions.
VXS DSP FMC carrier
04-09-2012 VXS-DSP-FMC Carrier V2
A second version of the VXS-DSP-FMC Carrier was launched after a series of tests with the V1.
Main issues addressed by this new release are:
- DSP ICE JTAG connector pattern mirror image correction
- Change of FMC FPGA type from XC5VLX110T-1FFG1136C to XC5VSX95T-1FFG1136C to get 10x more DSP resources for FMC IP cores
- Add another XCF32PFS48C prom to support the new FPGA type
- Bug fixes in power connections
- Change power inductor L8 for one with a 5A rating.
- Bug fixes in JTAG chain
- Front panel now of type ELMA 26D604-6 (with easy insertion / extraction handles)
- Bug fix polarity reversal of GTP TX X0Y4_TX0 and X0Y6_TX0
- Bug fix I2C pull-up resistors of buses Main2F0 and Main2F2 must be powered from P2V5
VXS DSP FMC carrier
06-08-2013 VXS-DSP-FMC Carrier V3
A third version of the VXS-DSP-FMC Carrier was launched after a series of tests with the V2. The pre-series of V2 prototype boards already achieved full functionality but required minor hardware tweaks to be functional.