CernFIP

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 includes different hardware designs as an FPGA agent, FMC mezzanine cards for use as master or agent, while for the master a full gateware and software stack has been written with Linux driver support.

The designs are available under the CERN Open Hardware Licence or other open licences.

All the projects still make use of the Alstom components FielDrive and FieldTR.
These components are available for purchase from Alstom.

Contact

Eva Gousiou

Latest News

03-09-2012: Reception of the First Batch ☜

Sep 3, 2012

We have just received, according to schedule, 4992 A3P400-PQG208X6 (X6 = single lot date code) devices from the same wafer lot!

30-07-2012: Microsemi First Articles validated ✓

Jul 30, 2012

For the validation, we have: 1) Run nanoFIP JTAG VERIFY cycles: one of the boards was acting as the target TAP, and another was receiving JTAG frames corresponding to the VERIFY_6A11.svf firmware. The cycles were completed successfully! Also for confirmation a different VERIFY firmware was sent and the JTAG cycles failed. 2) Kept the boards (each one with a different configuration in terms of speed, var size, model/constructor etc) running in loopback mode for 3 days, with the heaters at 100% (temperature measured on surface by the sensor: 40oC). No error occurred!

12-06-2012: ProASIC3 components purchase $-)

Jul 26, 2012

2 x (5'000 A3P400-PQG208 devices from the same wafer lot) have been purchased! The first batch of 5'000 devices is expected at the end of September 2012. The second batch of 5'000 devices, all programmed as nanoFIPs (ohwr.org v254 checksum 6A11) and engraved with the nanoFIP logo, are expected at the end of November 2012.