Overview
White Rabbit is a fully deterministic Ethernet-based network for general purpose data transfer and synchronization. The aim is to be able to synchronize ~1000 nodes with sub-ns accuracy over fiber and copper lengths of up to 10 km. The key technologies used are physical layer syntonization (clock recovery) and PTP (IEEE 1588).
- Subprojects: Portable PTP software stack, White Rabbit Network Interface Card, White Rabbit Network Robustness, White Rabbit switch HDL, White Rabbit Switch software, White Rabbit Switch Testing
- Status: Alpha
Latest news
White Rabbit presented in CERN's fieldbus WG
Basic Ethernet switching demonstrated
WR switch PTP compliance tested in ISPCS 2010 plugfest
First two-month development cycle for WR switch started
Report on measuring propagation delay in FPGAs published
A great report by Nikhef's Peter Jansweijer and Henk Peek, with lots of interesting material on Xilinx Gb/s transceivers.
Members
Manager: Dietrich Beck, Erik van der Bij, Javier Serrano
Developer: Achim Vollhardt, Alessandro Rubini, Cesar Prados, Emilio G. Cota, Grzegorz Daniluk, Henk Peek, José Gabriel Ramírez, Juan Luis Manas, Maciej Lipinski, Mathias Kreider, Miguel Baizan, Pablo Alvarez, Pedro Moreira, Peter Jansweijer, Tibor Fleck, Tomasz Wlostowski, Wesley W. Terpstra