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FMC carrier equipped with a Power PC embedded processor. In addition to the SPEC it has 2 gigabit Ethernet ports, one mini PCIe connector and USB 2.0 HS. It is supplied from a single 12V and runs Linux. The FPGA is configured from the processor and also interfaced using PCI Express x1 and a local bus. The system boots from on-board NAND or NOR flash memory.

It is a simple, low-cost measurement device equipped with GPS, GPRS modem, keyboard, display and LiOn battery. It can be also supplied/charged via a USB connector. It is enclosed in a nice-looking Hammond enclosure. It also has 3 RJ50 connectors that enable connection of various types of sensors. Each sensor can be connected using UART, I2C, SPI, 1-wire or analog interface. The device connects with a remote server which is also part of the development. We want to use them at Warsaw University of Technology to build a distributed network of sensors.

A project to host all software and hardware developments related to testing the White Rabbit switch.

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.

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.

nanoFIPdiag is a WorldFIP node dedicated to monitoring and diagnostics. It uses the nanoFIP chip in stand-alone mode and echoes the received data (through hardwired contacts it copies the received payload to the produced one). The module is designed to be radiation-tolerant

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.

Sub-micrometer resolution beam position monitoring system (BPM) for accelerators. It provides real-time orbit monitoring, buffered data readouts, fast orbit feedback capabilities and advanced beam diagnostics tools.

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

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

The B-Train integrator is a 2 differential channel 2MSPS 18 bit ADC card in FMC (FPGA Mezzanine Card) format. It uses an LPC VITA57 connector. The gain can be set by hardware (default = 1). A gain & offset self-calibrating function is also implemented. This function uses a 1ppm 20-Bit DAC (AD5791) as a reference and can be programmed as a differential voltage source. The card also includes 8 input/output LVDS pairs and a 10-bit port digital IO where each single-bit port can be configured individually as input or output. The I/Os that are on micro-HDMI connectors are TTL or LVDS compatible.

The Peak Position Detector is a 2 differential channel 10MSPS 16 bit ADC (AD7626) card in FMC (FPGA Mezzanine Card) format. It uses an LPC VITA57 connector. The gain can be set by hardware (default = 41). Two general purpose 50MSPS 16-Bit DAC are implemented and can be programmed as a voltage source. The card also includes 6 input/output LVDS pairs and a 10-bit port digital IO where each single-bit port can be configured individually as input or output. The I/Os that are on micro-HDMI connectors are TTL or LVDS compatible.

The AsyncArt Project is comprised by a set of Open-Source HDL libraries and examples targeted to the efficient implementation of Globally Asynchronous, Locally Synchronous (GALS) design architectures over Commercial-Off-The-Shelf FPGA devices.

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.

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

4-channel 16-bit 250 MS/s (700 MHz analog input bandwidth) ADC (ISLA216P25) FMC module.

The GSI Timing Starter Kit is a functional snapshot of the eventual FAIR timing system, which is under active development. It demonstrates real-time coordination of two front-end equipment controllers. The product consists of a data master (Linux PC) which coordinates events, a timing master which synchronizes clocks (White Rabbit switch), and two front-end equipment controllers (either SPECv4 or SCUv2).

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.

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

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.