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Projects / White Rabbit Switch - Software
GNU General Public License v2.0 or laterDevelopment of software for the White Rabbit switch, and in particular the embedded Linux system running in the ARM9 processor. More info at the Wiki page
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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.
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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
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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.
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A project to host all software and hardware developments related to testing the White Rabbit switch.
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A cute-wr is a compact WR-node implementation with minimum components required. The initial design is derived from SPEC, but would work in an opposite manner as a FMC wr-nic, providing 2 DIO channels, external CLK input, EEPROM, JTAG, RS232, and expandable IOs through FMC connector. The gateware and software of cute-wr would also keep maximum compatibility with SPEC. Project is obsolete. See cute-wr-dp for a similar board.
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Projects / Software for White Rabbit PTP Core
GNU General Public License v2.0 or laterWhite Rabbit PTP Core software for LatticeMico32. It consists of a software wrapper for running a PTP daemon without an operating system and device drivers for WRPC HDL internals.
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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.
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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).
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Projects / Beam Positoning Monitor - Software
GNU General Public License v3.0 onlySoftware 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.
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Projects / FMC Bus
GNU General Public License v2.0 or laterThe FMC bus abstraction implements a Linux kernel bus named fmc. This allows to deal with FMC mezzanines in a carrier-independent way
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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.
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Software support for the SVEC board, including kernel and user-space Linux code.
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Libre-FDATool is a Python package aimed at helping in the analysis and design of HDL filters from high-level specifications. This Free/Libre Open Source software supports both VHDL and Verilog code generation and relies on a collection of Free scientific and EDA tools for providing advanced features -- simulation, graphics, debugging, etc.
In order to overcome the problems often related with deploying open design toolchains from the ground up across different host environments, Libre-FDATool and the associated third-party tools are alternatively distributed in a customized GNU/Linux virtual machine image. This virtualized solution is ready to use right out of the box and can be easily deployed by only using free software in any mainstream Operating System (GNU/Linux, Windows, OS-X, Solaris).
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Distribution of clock signals over a White Rabbit network. It uses an PLL with a numerically controlled (DDS) oscillator to extract the characteristics of a signal that in turn are distributed over a White Rabbit network to receiving nodes with a DAC that regenerate exactly the same signal in phase. More info at the Wiki page
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Detailed documentation on how to get ready to work with the Simple PCI Express Carrier, including hardware deployment instructions, full required toolchain setup and and a collection of step-by-step demonstrative tutorials.
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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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