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CERN BE-CO-HT contribution to KiCad

a commitment to freedom

In his message KiCad: A commitment to freedom, Javier Serrano thanks the KiCad supporters for their generous donations through the CERN & Society Foundation.

DCES-DTRHF-SER1CH-v1

DCES at CHEP 2016

DCES will be presented in at CHEP 2016 in San Francisco during the poster session. https://dces.web.cern.ch/DCES/assets/Poster-CHEP2016_s.png

Hdlmake

HDLMake v3.0 release candidate: call for beta testers

Version 3.0: a major HDLMake release milestone. After a massive refactoring & upgrade process, we have just taped-out the brand-new HDLMake 3.0 release candidate. This version supersedes v2.2 as the future Master candidate, as it features some new features that were planned as critical for spreading the usage of the HDLMake tool.

White Rabbit

06-09-2016: New papers

Two new White Rabbit papers have been published recently: White Rabbit Precision Time Protocol on Long Distance Fiber Links Sub-nanosecond synchronization accuracy for time-sensitive applications on industrial networks

CERN BE-CO-HT contribution to KiCad

CERN devs demo SPICE integration in KiCad

Our colleagues Maciej Sumiński (Orson) and Tomasz Włostowski recently submitted a proposal in the KiCad dev mailing list to integrate SPICE simulation into KiCad, using ngspice as a shared library. The demo video can be seen here.

White Rabbit

CSN1 Spanish TV

The visit of a CERN delegation to the Universidad de Granada and to the company Seven Solutions on 24 June was presented on the news of the Andalucía regional TV station CSN1.

White Rabbit

13-06-16: A job with White Rabbit

Software architect and VHDL developer Stepstone.de (in German)

AIDA-2020 TLU

Schematic of FMC mini-TLU version "c" ready for review

Moved to fixed threshold comparators only ( from fixed + CFD ). Increased number of trigger inputs from 4 –> 6 Added low jitter clock generator Added external LVDS Rx/Tx chips ( instead of relying on FPGA I/O ).

DDR3 controller for Spartan6

New release

version#126 is now available with tag “1.0” in the repository.