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Production and functional tests for FMC ADC 100M 14b 4cha.

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4-channel 16-bit 130 MS/s (700 MHz analog input bandwidth) ADC (LTC2208) FMC module.

Software to support the fmc-adc-100m14b4cha mezzanine, including Linux device driver, library and test program.

This project covers all efforts geared to standardize White Rabbit, with a view to providing a stable specification which everyone can use to build compliant products.

A White Rabbit compliant Network Interface Card (NIC) based on the SPEC and the DIO FMC. This project hosts the HDL and associated software to configure the SPEC so it behaves as a NIC under the Linux OS.

Projects around SFP modules (Small-Form-factor Pluggable optical transceivers) are subprojects of this project.

FmcDIO32chTTLa is a 32-bit port digital IO card in FMC form-factor. More info at the Wiki page

Signal conditioning electronics for BPM pick-ups providing 4-channel RF signal analog filtering, amplification, digitally controlled attenuation and several calibration schemes.

Software to support the MasterFIP, including Linux device driver, library and test program.

This project deals with the distribution of RF signals over a White Rabbit network. In particular, it describes ways of extracting the characteristics of an RF signal (I/Q, Amplitude/Phase...) using a WR sampling node and the way to distribute those characteristics through Ethernet frames and generate the RF on the receiving nodes.

This is a port of an older Linux ptpd to support White Rabbit extensions and run both in hosted and freestanding environment. In the future we plan to replace it with PPSI, which has a much better design, but ptp-noposix is currently working pretty well despite being difficult to maintain.

Project hosting different types of Physics Particle Detectors and their associated electronics (breakout cables, read-out circuits). The Sub-projects are the actual projects.

FMC DIO 32CH LVDS is a universal 32-channel bi-directional LVDS card. It uses a VHDCI connector compatible with standard SCSI cables. There is also micro-HDMI connector on the front panel with I2C and some LVDS signals so that standard HDMI cables can be used. Each channel may be optionally AC-coupled (0R resistors need to be removed) and is ESD-protected. All channels are terminated to 1.65V by two 50 Ohm resistors. The direction of each channel is programmed via a serial interface. The VHDCI connector has also 3.3V supply and buffered I2C interface. The direction of each channel is programmed via a serial interface. More info at the Wiki page

The TimEX3 is a multipurpose compact PCI board designed to perform simple to medium complex logical functions. It is mainly used for the synchronization system of SOLEIL (signal duplication, top-up gating, etc.). This board is based on a Spartan-6 FPGA and PLX PCI9030 interface. It is designed with KiCad software, and released under CERN OHL License.

Software for Beam Position Monitor, including digital signal processing chains, data acquisition engines, ADC and analog front-end peripherals control/monitoring, timing and control system interface.

This project covers the hardware development of the White Rabbit switch.

Gateware (HDL design) for FMC ADC 100M 14b 4cha on SPEC and SVEC carriers.

The FMC bus abstraction implements a Linux kernel bus named fmc. This allows to deal with FMC mezzanines in a carrier-independent way

The project is a set of Kicad Symbols and Footprints that are used in a collection of smaller Kicad based sub projects. Each sub project will use the common library to ease and standardise design but will be a related implementation or documentation of a design. The topic for the Library and designs are Photo Multiplier Tube (PMT) based particle and optical detectors.

Whilst it is envisaged that each project will feature a PMT in some way. Some designs may not, but will be tangibly related in some useful way to particle detection and PMT's. For example a Divide by 10 HV PSU tester has no PMT but is used when working with the HV supply’s for PMT's. A High Voltage supply similarly has no PMT but is used with. A Geiger Muller Tube based detector may be used as a trigger source for PMT based particle detectors.

Each sub project is expected to be fully self contained (In it's own subdirectory within the same repository as PMTLib) with the exception of common Kicad Libraries and the inclusion of the PMTLib libraries and foot prints. A sub project may include a simulation of the design. Such simulations will be constructed using Open source Tools (ie QUCS or similar). PCB Layouts, Datasheets, PDF's and Photographs of finished designs may also be included. A sub project will contain at a minimum a Schematic and a README doc detailing attribution,licensing and any additional notes the designer wants to add.

Having mentioned the README doc the principle place for design related notes is on the Schematic that defines the sub-project.