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White Rabbit presented in CERN's fieldbus WG
WR was successfully presented in CERN's fieldbus working group. You can find the slides and some pictures, including the latest and greatest 18-port switch box at http://www.ohwr.org/documents/148
Basic Ethernet switching demonstrated
The WR v2 switch demonstrated real-life Ethernet packet switching in the last WR developer meeting by transferring a big video file between two laptops.
WR switch PTP compliance tested in ISPCS 2010 plugfest
Tomasz went to ISPCS 2010 and tried the prototype WR switch with other PTP-compliant devices during the plugfest. The switch successfully talked PTP with hardware from Hirschmann, Beckhoff, Oregano, Ruggedcom, Semtech and ZHAW.
First two-month development cycle for WR switch started
The WR switch design effort is transitioning into a new development model, with two-month cycles that include a kick-off meeting for planning the two months of work and a meeting at the end to check results. The project is now split into HW (lead by Tomasz Wlostowski) and SW (lead by Alessandro Rubini) development. A separate sub-project has been created for the SW part. The goals for this first two-month effort can be seen in the wiki pages of both projects.
Report on measuring propagation delay in FPGAs published
See the report at http://www.nikhef.nl/pub/services/biblio/technicalreports/ETR2010-01.pdf
Planning for basic switch design published
See SwitchPlanning2010.
20-4-2010 - 9 rolls of fibre received at CERN
We have received five rolls of 10 km and four rolls of 5 km single mode fibre with LC connectors on them. These can be used for the testing of long White Rabbit links.
MCH v2 working
Version 2 of the White Rabbit switch uplink port card is back from production. Tomek has successfully tested two units and he will now proceed to organize the production of ~10 more.
WR presented in ISPCS 2009
WR presented in ISPCS 2009
WR presented in ICALEPCS 2009
WR presented in ICALEPCS 2009
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