specgather.md

@@ -10,20 +10,24 @@ SPEC7.
 
 #### NIKHEF/JRP, CERN: as high-precision PCIe and stand-alone White Rabbit design
 
-\* Aim: the JRP want to disseminate UTC from metrology partners to
-European research institutes and industry partners with a target
-frequency instability of 1e-13 over 100 sec.
+\* Aim: White Rabbit node with target frequency instability of 1e-13
+over 100 sec.
 
-\* Users will be first: research institutes, metrology institutes.
-Later: high performance users, telecom, ....
+\* Users will be first: research institutes and metrology institutes
+with the aim to disseminate UTC from metrology partners to European
+research institutes and industry partners. Later: high performance
+users, telecom, ....
 
 * All users profit from an inherent high performance, relatively
-cheap, design without the bother of buying an expensive stable external
-oscillator that the metrology users need.
+cheap (?), design without the bother of buying an expensive stable
+external oscillator that the metrology users need.
 
-\* Other possible user for 1 GSPS ADC cards requiring HPC FMC
+\* Other possible user for 1 GSPS ADC cards requiring HPC FMC? Needs to
+be worked out as fast ADCs nowadays use many serial links and have no
+parallel readout.
 
-\* Quantity: 100 in 5 years for metrology
+\* Quantity: 100 in 5 years for metrology and research needing high
+timing performance.
 
 \* Priority
 
@@ -32,7 +36,11 @@ oscillator that the metrology users need.
 
 #### CERN: as SPEC replacement
 
-\* Aim: smooth replacement of existing SPEC (cheap and simple)
+\* Aim: smooth replacement of existing SPEC that is a cheap FMC carrier
+with WR support.
+
+* The existing SPEC with WRS are the two flagship OH projects and the
+SPEC7 therefore may not fail as project.
 
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