Complete status
Status
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 22-06-2010 | Start of project. Design will be done by an external company,based on the FMC PCIe Carrier. Reviewing will be done by CERN. |
| 29-06-2010 | Main features reviewed by JS, PA, MC & EB. Design can start. |
| 12-07-2010 | First schematics published. Ready for review. |
| 16-07-2010 | First review held. Considered as a preliminary review as schematics not finished. |
| 24-07-2010 | Second version schematics published. |
| 03-08-2010 | Second schematics review held. FMC to Xilinx bank connections not correct. Clock missing. Supply Xilinx wrong. Cleanup required. |
| 03-09-2010 | Schematics corrected. Waiting for a final schematics review from CERN. |
| 07-09-2010 | Third schematics review held. review07092010 |
| 10-09-2010 | Review comments integrated review07092010comments. Start of PCB layout. |
| 21-09-2010 | PCB layout being made. Will fit on a 6-layer board. |
| 27-09-2010 | PCB layout 'ready'. |
| 01-10-2010 | PCB layout modified before review. |
| 04-10-2010 | Preliminary PCB layout review requiring modifications to layout. review04102010 |
| 05-10-2010 | PCB layout review held. review05102010 |
| 08-10-2010 | Order placed for production of three prototypes. |
| 18-10-2010 | Some final mods to the schematics and PCB. Design passses CERN's design office for standard production files. |
| 19-10-2010 | Board could not generate interrupts. Found before finalising production files. |
| 20-10-2010 | Vias designed next to BGA pads which may cause production problems. Needs rework of layout. |
| 29-10-2010 | Received improved layout. Will pass via CERN's design office. |
| 05-11-2010 | Design finished. Expect ordered boards by mid December January. |
| 20-12-2010 | Production of 3 prototype board finished (see photo above) |
| 19-01-2011 | Three prototypes arrived at CERN. |
| 19-01-2011 | Started testing V1 TestingV1 |
| 04-02-2011 | First DDR3 access |
| 04-02-2011 | WhiteRabbit port GTP transceiver working. Packet Tx/Rx in progress... |
| 06-02-2011 | Packet transmission and reception works! |
| 24-02-2011 | All ICs and most slow lines of FMC connector tested. Not yet gigabit lines. |
| 02-03-2011 | Review of "V1.1" schematics and PCB. |
| 07-03-2011 | Ordered 10 "V1.1" boards for CERN. Company will produce extra for WR development. |
| 11-04-2011 | Improved version of "V1.1" layout sent for verification by CERN's design office. Planned ready by 29-04-2011. |
| 18-04-2011 | First V1.1 prototypes received, start testing them. |
| 02-05-2011 | V1.1 partly tested. Cleaning up schematics for production. Found missing pull-ups. |
| 09-05-2011 | Review of updated schematics planned to be held on 11-05-2011. review11052011 |
| 16-05-2011 | Schematics, layout and production documents for V2 are available in EDMS |
| 20-05-2011 | CERN sent out price enquiry for production of 70 boards. Delivery of pre-series in October. |
| 31-05-2011 | Sent order for 3 production prototypes. Order (CERN only). Demo of production test software shown. Needs only minor modifications. |
| 16-06-2011 | V2 boards being built. |
| 01-07-2011 | Three V2 boards received. One fully tested OK. Two only shortly tested. |
| 14-07-2011 | Modifications for V3 (OHL v1.1, 1 crossover SATA), changelog |
| 17-07-2011 | Order placed for 70 SPEC cards at Seven Solutions. First batch expected end October. |
| 25-07-2011 | V3 released. But never built. |
| 23-08-2011 | V4 released. Solves a minor mechanical problem with the SFP connector. |
| 21-11-2011 | Pre-production serie of 10 boards was not compliant to IPC-A-610 (Class 2). |
| 16-01-2012 | Will receive 8 11 boards by mid February 7 March. (Update 24-02-2012), another 59 by end April. |
| 14-03-2012 | CERN accepted the 10 preseries boards that were received on 7 March. |
| 26-04-2012 | Will receive another 27 cards from Seven Solution by mid-June. And 33 out of the order of 70 later. |
| 12-06-2012 | SPEC boards passed most restrictive EMC tests for industrial and domestic classes. Test report. |
| 13-06-2012 | CERN ordered 60 cards at INCAA for delivery end September. |
| 03-07-2012 | Seven Solutions delivered 52 cards. 8 to be delivered later. |
| 18-07-2012 | Seven Solutions delivered final 8 cards. |
| 10-09-2012 | CERN entered the modules in the stock for later use in LHC and other accelerators. |
| 30-04-2013 | 60 SPEC boards received from INCAA. |
| 13-06-2012 | Board available from three commercial producers. |
| 03-12-2013 | Labview Driver available for FMC DEL 1ns 4cha and FMC TDC 1ns 5cha. |
| 02-12-2016 | PCIe bridge component (Gennum GN4124) obsolete and not available anymore. A new card should be designed. |
Erik van der Bij - 14 December 2016