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Workshop 27-28 November Madrid
The 7th White Rabbit workshop will be held in Madrid on 27 and 28 November 2012. Anyone interested can register, there are no costs involved.
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WR @ ISPCS2012
ISPCS2012 conference is the PTP conference. Since WR extends PTP, it is very important for the project. At the conference, WR was very visible thanks to as many as 3 WR-related papers which were presented and our participation in the PlugFest.
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3-10-2012: White Rabbit studies for Spanish accelerator
After an extensive study, White Rabbit has been chosen as the most promising option for the synchronization network at ESS Bilbao, a light ion linear accelerator. Therefore, first SPEC to SPEC tests have been performed.
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2-10-12: White Rabbit in Tibet?
LHAASO, the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observation project will be deploying 10,000 detectors over 1 square km in Tibet. The LHAASO project has passed the technical review on the WR timing distribution plan that consists of 4 layers of WR switches (461 in total) covering the 6880 nodes of the Square Kilometer Array (KM2A).
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White Rabbit presented in CERN's fieldbus WG
WR was successfully presented in CERN’s fieldbus working group. You can find the slides and some pictures, including the latest and greatest 18-port switch box at https://www.ohwr.org/project/white-rabbit/wikis/Documents/White-Rabbit-as-a-fieldbus-(presentation)
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Basic Ethernet switching demonstrated
The WR v2 switch demonstrated real-life Ethernet packet switching in the last WR developer meeting by transferring a big video file between two laptops.
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WR switch PTP compliance tested in ISPCS 2010 plugfest
Tomasz went to ISPCS 2010 and tried the prototype WR switch with other PTP-compliant devices during the plugfest. The switch successfully talked PTP with hardware from Hirschmann, Beckhoff, Oregano, Ruggedcom, Semtech and ZHAW.
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First two-month development cycle for WR switch started
The WR switch design effort is transitioning into a new development model, with two-month cycles that include a kick-off meeting for planning the two months of work and a meeting at the end to check results.
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Report on measuring propagation delay in FPGAs published
See the report at http://www.nikhef.nl/pub/services/biblio/technicalreports/ETR2010-01.pdf