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SPEC Fan design files released
We have released the official documentation for the mezzanine cooling fan designed to fit the SPEC board. The fan design is described on this page.
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18-12-13: Labview drivers for SPEXI and SPEC
The company INCAA has written Labview drivers for the FMC DEL 1ns 4cha and FMC TDC 1ns 5cha mezzanine cards. These drivers work both for the PCIe-based SPEC carrier and PXIe-based SPEXI carrier board.
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16-01-2013: Production test improved
Open Hardware doesn’t stop at just having a good hardware design. We at CERN believe it is also important to provide a good production test system with the hardware to ease the manufacturing process.
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03-07-2012: Delivery of 52 SPEC boards
It’s getting serious now as we received at CERN four boxes with in total 52 SPEC boards from the company Seven Solutions. All boards are individually packed and have an LHC barcode on it that will ease us entering the cards in our equipment database.
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12-06-2012: SPEC passes EMC tests
The SPEC board together with a 5 channel Digital I/O card have passed the most restrictive EMC tests of each class (domestic and industrial) successfully: EM Radiated Emission: Class B (Domestic) EN 55022 (2006) / A1 (2007) EM Immunity (Industrial): EN 61000-4-3 (2006) / A1 (2008) / A2 (2010), EN 61000-4-4 (2004) / A1 (2010) / Corr (2010), EN 61000-4-6 (2009), EN
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25-04-2012: SPEC boards running in Siberia!
First field tests of two SPEC boards running a White Rabbit timing link between them have been made in Siberia. These tests are made by DESY to verify the usability of the board at the Gamma-Ray and Cosmic-Ray experiment HiSCORE-EA at the Tunka site.
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05-01-2012: 70 SPEC cards produced in 2011
In the year 2011 the company Creotech has produced and sold fifty SPEC boards. With the twenty cards from the pre-production of the seventy that CERN has ordered from the company Seven Solutions, in total seventy SPEC boards have been produced in 2011.
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11-11-2011: 20 cards commercially produced
The pre-series of the first commercial series production of SPEC cards has succeeded. After repairing some assembly problem with the FMC connector, all twenty cards passed the test on the test bench that was prepared by CERN.
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13-10-2011: CE EMC tests will be made
CERN has placed an order for EMC testing according to EN 55022(2006) /A1(2007) + EN 55024(1998)/A1 (2001)/A2(2003). Once these tests are done, it will allow the board to carry the CE approval.