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A 4-lane PCIe carrier for a low pin count FPGA Mezzanine Card (VITA 57). SPEC carrier based with a larger FPGA. Commercially available. More info at the Wiki page

Software to support the FMC ADC 125M 14B 1CH DAC 600M 14B 1CH mezzanine, including: Linux device driver, HDL firmware, application for data acquisition (ADC) and generating signals (DAC). Included Octave application for card performance measurement (FFT). Uses FMC-bus. More info at the Wiki page

A system to characterise large area silicon pad sensors with several hundred channels. It consists of two PCBs. One is an active switching 512-to-1 matrix. The second one is a passive probe card to contact the sensor. Hardware.

The Multigap RPC is a high precision timing and tracking detector with an active area of 25.6cm x 18.2cm and readout with 24 strips. Charged particles ionise gas in gaps between glass plates in a stack. A large electric field causes small avalanches of ionisation in each gap. The moving charges are picked up on readout strips and the timing of the charge deposition is to be read out on each side of each strip. The differential timing of the ionisation reveals the position along the strip and the precise arrival time of the particle. Multiple MRPCs can be used to measure particle time of flight (ToF). This design is based on the ALICE ToF detector and was built for the Beamline for Schools project. More info at the Wiki page

Collection of WRTD reference designs provided by (and used at) CERN

A simple 4-lane PXIe carrier for a low pin count FPGA Mezzanine Card (VITA 57). It supports the White Rabbit timing and control network. Commercially available. Labview driver available for Fine Delay and TDC mezzanines. More info at the Wiki page

High performance pulse and frequency distribution amplifier for time and frequency metrology. The pulse distribution board is an 1:8-channel (1 Hz and up) logic-level distribution amplifier, while the frequency distribution board is an 1:8-channel sine-wave (1-30 MHz) distribution amplifier. Two 1:8 boards fit side-by-sides in a 1U 19" rack enclosure, with either BNC or SMA connectors.

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FPGA Firmware ( "Gateware" ) for AIDA-2020 TLU and AIDA mini-TLU

Uses "IPBus Build" ( ipbb )

Build instructions at Instructions here

A system to characterize large area silicon pad sensors with several hundred channels. This repository contains the microcontroller firmware.

TiCkS is a flexible White Rabbit based time-stamping board. It is based on the SPEC board developed for the CTA collaboration. It provides an interface to a CTA camera (Inputs: Read-out Trigger signals, Busy Trigger), (Outputs: PPS signal , 10MHz clock, External trigger signal).

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AMC FMC Carrier with Kintex is designed to support FMC boards. Equiped in Xilinx Kintex-7 FPGA. It allows to connect clock source to any clock input More info at the Wiki page

Control of instrumentation over a White Rabbit network. Define and implement a standardized communication protocol for instrumentation over a White Rabbit network (precise synchronization and timestamping; remote control and test sequence programming; message exchanging and event distribution).

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Tool for generating multi-purpose makefiles for FPGA projects.

Main features:

makefile generation for: fetching modules from repositories simulating HDL projects synthesizing HDL projects synthesizing projects remotely (keeping your local resources free) generating multi-vendor project files (no clicking in the IDE!) many other things without involving make and makefiles

Hdlmake supports modularity, scalability, revision control systems. Hdlmake can be run on any Linux or Windows machine with any HDL More info at the Wiki page

A software framework for Linux device drivers aimed at supporting controls and data acquisition hardware. ZIO supports sub-nanosecond timestamps, block-oriented input and output and transport of meta-data with the data samples. Users can change the buffer type and trigger type associated with a device at run time, and all of devices, triggers and buffers are easily implemented as add-on modules.

The PF_ZIO implementation, currently in beta status, implements a network interface to the ZIO transport, which allows each I/O channel to generate or receive network frames. Applications see the network of devices and can talk with several of them from the same socket. We support SOCK_STREAM, SOCK_DGRAM and SOCK_RAW.

Software to support the FMC ADC 250M 16B 4CH mezzanine, including: configuration application and HDL firmware, with functionality for data acqusition. For use with FCS application. More info at the Wiki page

Cosmic Pi - a low cost distributed cosmic ray detector, based on Raspberry Pi. It makes the detection and analysis of cosmic rays accessible to students, educators and ordinary people. It uses a specially designed detector combined with the low cost hardware of the Raspberry Pi computer for data storage and online analysis. More info at the Wiki page

If you're looking for the V1 prototype schematics and PCB layouts you can find them here Our more recent hardware (V1.5 and V2) plus all code is stored on github and can be found here To learn about the project, have a look at our blog

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The project hardware is currently being developed in EagleCAD but we'll be moving to KiCAD fairly soon.

WR-HSR is a research project to implement the High-availability Seamless Redundancy (HSR) protocol on White Rabbit switches and dual-port end nodes. The implementation is not part of the roadmap of the White Rabbit project.

Mock Turtle is an HDL core of a generic control system node, based on a deterministic multicore CPU architecture. Mock Turtle can use White Rabbit as the means of communication and synchronization in a distributed system. More info at the Wiki page