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A Trigger/Timing Logic Unit designed for use with High Energy Physics beam-tests. Provides a simple and flexible interface for fast timing and triggering signals at the AIDA pixel sensor beam-telescope. Connects to a FPGA carrier card via a FMC connector.

( N.B. Use the sub-project Git repositories, not the top level repository )

IPBus is a FPGA Core that controls a Wishbone bus via Ethernet. Currently the transport protocol is UDP/IP, although there are plans for an ATA over Ethernet (AoE) implementation. There are reference designs for the SP601 and SP605 Xilinx FPGA boards.

Details at http://ipbus.web.cern.ch/ipbus/

This project defines data structures, to be embedded in the FPGA memory address space, to enumerate the devices that have been synthetized in the current design. The same structure is also used as a simple flash file system. AKA Self-Describing Bus (SDB) Specification for Logic Cores. The layout is simple enough to be parsed both by the host and by the internal soft-core, if any.

The documentation is public, and related code is GNU GPL licensed.

A project devoted to developing and discussing the CERN Open Hardware Licence. More info at the Wiki page

A Time to Digital Converter core for Spartan 6 FPGAs.

A level conversion board between TTL and 24V blocking levels in VME64x form factor. The project uses a rear transition module for connectivity and a front module with the active conversion and diagnostics electronics. More info at the Wiki page

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

An FMC board with an analog 125 MS/s input and an analog 600 MS/s output for RF applications.

More info at the Wiki page

Software support for the SPEC board, including kernel and user-space Linux code. The package also include the fmc-bus driver, which is expected to be used by other carriers as well.

An FMC for clock & data recovery from optical sources.

The FmcAdc1G8b2cha is a 2 channel 1GSPS 8 bit ADC card in FMC (FPGA Mezzanine Card, VITA 57.1) format using a Low Pin-Count (LPC) connector.

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.

A project to describe techniques and gather results of the time transfer between CERN and LNGS for the neutrino Time Of Flight experiment.

An LPC FMC board which seeks to distribute digital I/O. It is designed to operate at least at 10 MHz, however a better design could allow this board to operate at much higher frequencies. This board is compatible with "PMOD" Connectors.

We have designed an FPGA Mezzanine card (standard FMC/Vita 57) for high-channel-count electrophysiology, with 128 channels (potentially up to 512), based upon Intan Tech's RHA2132 (2 uV rms input-referred noise), sampled at 25kHz 18bit by AD7982. We are basing our design on the reference design provided by Reid Harrison of Intan Tech for their 16-channel evaluation board. The expected cost of the device should be under 5000$.

In order to have an integrated solution we intend to have as default carrier the Opal Kelly Shuttle LX1, an inexpensive USB FMC carrier with an excellent USB controller. The integrated solution will be completed with software on the PC side to grab to disk continuously and/or display in some fashion all 128 channels.

Our status: We have an alpha card. It has passed most tests---we can grab from any channel at 1MS/s. We have an alpha microcode: it grabs from any channel and stores on the PC.

Our current team: Marcelo Magnasco (Rockefeller University, New York), design. Andres Cicuttin (ICTP, Trieste), schematics + fpga Maria Liz Crespo (ICTP, Trieste), fpga Sanjee Abeytunge (MSKCC, New York) layout Nicholas Joseph (RU) Macintosh drivers

A QDR II RAM controller for the Virtex 6 FPGA family. This core is compliant with the Wishbone bus.

A level conversion board in VME64x double-height form factor between TTL and RS485. Direction and levels are configurable. The project uses a Rear Transition Module for connectivity and a Front module with the active conversion and diagnostics electronics. More info at the Wiki page

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

The FmcAdc250M12b2cha is a 2 channel 250MSPS 12 bit ADC card in FMC (FPGA Mezzanine Card) format using an LPC connector. The gain can be set by software in three steps: /-50mV,/-0.5V, /-5V. An advanced offset circuit is used in the front-end design of the ADC board, and allows a voltage shift in the range of/- 5V that is independent on the chosen gain range.

A simple card that measures temperatures using low cost external Silicon sensors (just ordinary bipolar transistors). On the front panel it has 8 mini-jack connectors to quickly rearrange the setup. We use this kind of the cards for measurement of the temperature distribution of key components on PCBs. The card has also application in our GEM detector readout system to monitor temperatures inside the detector box - it is attached to the rear transition module with an FMC connector. The card uses only an I2C interface which can be connected to the I2C bus of the card or to the LA lanes.