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A small PCB that generates 3.3 Volt so that a SVEC can work in older type of VME crates. The SVEC is a VME64x board where usually the 3.3 Volt supply is delivered by the crate itself. Older VME types do not generate this 3.3 Volt.

The Fmc ADC 100M 14b 16cha DAC 2M 14B 4cha is a 16 channel 100MSPS 14 bit ADC and 4 channel 2MSPS 14 bit DAC card in FMC (FPGA Mezzanine Card) format. The board is also equipped with 4 DIO channels.

The Fmc DAC 100M 14b 16cha ADC 2M 14B 4cha is a 16 channel 100MSPS 14 bit DAC and 4 channel 2MSPS 14 bit ADC card in FMC (FPGA Mezzanine Card) format. The board is also equipped with 4 DIO channels.

USB-controlled data acquisition and instrument controller, 4 analog inputs, 2 analog outputs, 4 digital inputs and 4 digital outputs. Maximum sampling rate of 3000 samples per seconds in continuous stream mode. On-board averaging at 50000 samples per seconds max. Available in 3 versions:

BNC connectors Terminal Block connections OEM Header

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The Furnarius Rufus PCB Milling Machine is an open-source digital fabrication tool designed to lower the costs of prototyping and small scale manufacturing of scientific and educational instruments. More info at the Wiki page

The WandAdapter is a simple PCI-Express x1 card which allows a Wandboard (or any other EDM compatible device) to be connected via it's PCI-Express interface to a mainboard. The card provides power to the Wandboard and breaks out the gigabit ethernet, serial and both USB host and device interfaces. More info at the Wiki page

EPICS support for Wishbone peripherals: This project consist of a Generic EPICS IOC AsynDriver to support wishbone peripheral. It include the following features:

Driver for X1052, Gennum, Etherbone WB master. Direct access to any register in the wishbone bus Auto-generation of EPICS Database file using wbgen2 Automatic real number convertion (2 complements, fixed point, signess) using .wb file Support for WR Core and other internal bus protocols (i2c, spi, etc.)

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A low-pin-count (LPC) FMC board with 16 LVDS inputs. A possible application is to connect a CMOS image sensor such as the 4 Mpx sensor CMV4000.

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Yocto Project / OpenEmbedded meta layer supporting the use of the Simple PCIe Carrier (SPEC) in x86 and x86-64 embedded Linux hosts. It features:

SPEC software (kernel, userspace, library, gateware) White Rabbit Interface Card support. White Rabbit Starting Kit demos. Getting started with the SPEC demos (python, gateware) Ready to go minimal and sato image recipes.

A VHDL core for a PCI slave. The other side behaves like a Wishbone master.

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A White Rabbit Timing Receiver in PMC (PCI Mezzanine Card) format. More info at the Wiki page

FMC MasterFIP is an interface card for the WorldFIP network in an LPC FMC form-factor. More info at the Wiki page

Intel Arria V based VME64x carrier for one high pin count FMC with six SFP connectors, DDR3 memory and clocking resources to support White Rabbit. For more details please refer to the wiki pages.

The GBT-based Expandable Front-End (GEFE) is a multipurpose FPGA-based radiation tolerant card. It is foreseen to be the new standard FMC carrier for digital front-end applications in the CERN BE-BI group. Its intended use ranges from fast data acquisition systems to slow control installed close to the beamlines, in a radioactive environment exposed to total ionizing doses of up to 750 Gy. More info at the Wiki page

Couples a MAROC ASIC (64 channels each with a fixed threshold discriminator and a slow shaper + sample-and-hold + 12-bit ADC) to a FPGA. Read-out by Gigabit Ethernet (firmware supplied supports IPBus). Multiple boards can be plugged together to increase the channel count. Clocking circuitry compatible with the White Rabbit implementation of PTP. More info at the Wiki page

WorldFIP is a deterministic rad-tol fieldbus used at CERN's LHC for a variety of control systems. Cryogenics, Power Converters, Beam Instrumentation and other critical systems are using WorldFIP for the exchange of data between their sensors and actuators and the control and supervision level. With Alstom phasing out WorldFIP support in 2009, it was decided to insource this technology at CERN.

The insourcing project has started with , a rad-tol FPGA that acts as an agent in the communication over the WorldFIP fieldbus.

nanoFIP project details, specifications, design and users information

In view of reorganizing the project, the nanoFIP project contains a copy of the CERNFIP wiki pages, Documents and Issues made on 24 March 2015

FMC mezzanine board that connects to an Xilinx Virtex-6 FPGA ML605 evaluation board that allows transmitting through 12-channel MPO optical devices a set of 72 links aimed for low-speed (general I/O from the Virtex 6, up to 480 Mbps) and 8 links for high-speed multigigabit transmitters of the Virtex 6 (up to 1600 Mbps). This boards is used for testing other devices. More info at the Wiki page

Power supply unit for emergency luminaires that may need to be used in areas with radiation. The power supply consists of a transformer, a diode bridge, capacitors and an optional voltage stabilisation device. It converts a 207V to 253V 50Hz AC to a stable DC voltage and current, as required by the LED load. Due to design constraints this is best for loads under 7-8W. 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.