Simple PCIe FMC carrier SPEC

The FMC PCIe Carrier is an FMC carrier that can hold one FMC card and an SFP connector. On the PCIe side it has a 4-lane interface, while the FMC mezzanine slot uses a low-pin count connector. This board is optimised for cost and is usable with most of the FMC cards designed within the OHR project (e.g. ADC cards, Fine Delay). The board is commercially available.

Labview and Linux drivers are available for the FMC DEL 1ns 4cha delay and FMC TDC 1ns 5cha TDC mezzanine cards.

Boards with a very similar architecture are available for the VME bus (SVEC - Simple VME FMC Carrier (SVEC)) and for the PXI Express bus (SPEXI - Simple PXI express FMC Carrier Board (SPEXI)).
Other FMC projects and the FMC standard are described in FMC Projects.

SPEC 1.1 first prototype

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Grzegorz Daniluk

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PCIe FMC FMC Carrier White Rabbit WR Node TRL9 Commercial

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Latest News

SPEC Fan design files released

We have released the official documentation for the mezzanine cooling fan designed to fit the SPEC board. The fan design is described on this page.

18-12-13: Labview drivers for SPEXI and SPEC

The company INCAA has written Labview drivers for the FMC DEL 1ns 4cha and FMC TDC 1ns 5cha mezzanine cards. These drivers work both for the PCIe-based SPEC carrier and PXIe-based SPEXI carrier board. The source code of the drivers is available under the GPL license.

16-01-2013: Production test improved

Open Hardware doesn’t stop at just having a good hardware design. We at CERN believe it is also important to provide a good production test system with the hardware to ease the manufacturing process. For this we have set up a testing environment, called PTS.