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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

The programmable bench power supply project was an attempt to create reliable, modular, open and programmable power supply. Various voltage single range operation (i.e. 0 – 30 V, 0 – 40 V or 0 – 50 V per channel). Various current single range operation (i.e. 0 – 3 A or 0 – 5 A per channel)

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The PFC is a 4-lane PCIe carrier for a single VITA 57 (FMC) mezzanine. It has many memory and clocking resources and supports the White Rabbit timing and control network. For more details please refer to the Wiki pages. *Warning. This project is on hold. Refer to the SPEC*

Software to support the FMC ADC 130M 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

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.

The Dual AMC carrier enables stand-alone operation of an AMC FMC carrier or any other AMC board. It has 4 SFP connectors, 2 QSFP cages, 8 trigger I/O routed to the MLVDS ports and power entry. Two versions, allowing the use of a RTM or not. More info at the Wiki page

Software to support the FMC DIO 32CH TTL A mezzanine, including: configuration application and HDL firmware, with functionality for data acqusition. For use with FCS application. More info at the Wiki page

This project guides new users to start in the White Rabbit “World” with simple experiments. The starting kit uses two SPEC + FMC-DIO cards. Each node allows basic operations such as input timestamping or programmable output pulse generation. Additionally, specific software and gateware layers allow to use it as a standard network interface card implementing the White Rabbit technology functionalities.

Programmable attenuator of RF signals with very high voltage range (50mV – 1000 V) for protecting digitizers against damage by high voltage signals. Four channels with SMA connectors; Three attenuation values: 0, -20, -40 dB; Bandwidth: DC – 2 GHz.

Etherbone is an FPGA-core that connects Ethernet to internal on-chip wishbone buses permitting any core to talk to any other across Ethernet.

A software suite written in Python to help with production tests of PCBs. AKA PTS.

%(red)This pts-base project is used to re-organise the current pts project In the future this project will replace the existing pts project.

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E-bone first aims at interfacing an FPGA based PCIe Endpoint core to a collection of other cores. The E-bone release contains a number of general purpose cores within that scope. E-bone specifications cater for both a Control Interconnect and a Fast Transmitter. The Control Interconnect defines a 32 bit wide interconnection between a number of masters and slaves. The Fast Transmitter is a one way path (up to 256 bit wide) aiming at dumping large data sets to the root complex. E-bone is nevertheless not restricted to PCIe interfacing and may be used for developing sub-systems in others environments.

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SDB (Self-describing Bus) allows to enumerate the cores that are live in the current FPGA binary, either from the host computer or from the internal soft-core CPU in the FPGA itself. The project provides the software support and the specification. More info at the Wiki page

The level conversion board project hosts a set of boards in VME form factor, with additional remote diagnostics/monitoring via I2C.

Software to support the PandABox is common between all platforms using the PandABlocks framework and is developed on Github:

PandABlocks-rootfs: Github repository for building onboard rootfs from source PandABlocks-server: Github repository for onboard TCP server PandABlocks-webserver: Github repository for onboard webserver PandABlocks-client: Github repository for Python client side tools ADPandABlocks: Github repository for EPICS areaDetector driver