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company [Alstom](http://www.alstom.com/). However Alstom has been
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gradually stopping all the WorldFIP support, as new Ethernet based
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solutions are now dominant.
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At CERN though we need to provide WorldFIP support until at least 2035,
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the end-of-life of the HL-LHC as it would be very costly to change all
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the cabling and the equipment to another Ethernet-based solution.
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At CERN we need to provide WorldFIP support until at least 2035, the
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end-of-life of the HL-LHC as it would be very costly to change all the
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cabling and the equipment to another Ethernet-based solution.
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The fact that there is no more WorldFIP support by Alstom is the main
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reason we need to design and support our own WorldFIP equipment at CERN.
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is targeted for the middle of 2018, CERN's Long Shutdown 2.
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The masterFIP board, is a WorldFIP master, the replacement of the Alstom
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WorldFIP master board. It is an [FMC
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mezzanine](https://www.ohwr.org/project/fmc-worldfip/wiki), to be
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combined with a [SPEC PCI
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Express](https://www.ohwr.org/project/spec/wiki)
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WorldFIP master board. It is an [FMC mezzanine called
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fmc-masterFIP](https://www.ohwr.org/project/fmc-masterfip/wiki), to be
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combined with a [SPEC PCI Express
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card](https://www.ohwr.org/project/spec/wiki)
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carrier.
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[![](/uploads/a50978afe987738f0315f3cf18dbfebe/topolody_500x300.png)](https://www.ohwr.org/project/masterfip/uploads/b44426896c542d23b8a81f0371c8bbf3/topolody_1200x900.png)
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<td>01-2017</td>
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<td><strong>Hardware V3</strong> ready for production; no ADC diagnostics on the board based on high production and maintenance costs</td>
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<td>28-03-2017</td>
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<td>15 V3 prototype cards received, ready for testing.</td>
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</table>
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*E.Gousiou, E.Van der Bij, 27 February 2017*
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*E.Gousiou, E.Van der Bij, 29 March 2017*
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