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papers/ISPCS2018/wrApplicationsOverview.bib
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@Misc{biblio:GSI-schedule,
title = "{GSI - General Plan of Accelerator Operation 2018}",
}
@Misc{biblio:OHWR,
title = "Open Hardware Repository (OHWR)",
howpublished = {\url{https://www.ohwr.org/}},
}
@Misc{biblio:wr-switch,
title = "White Rabbit Switch",
howpublished = {\url{https://www.ohwr.org/projects/white-rabbit/wiki/switch}},
}
@Misc{biblio:wr-node,
title = "White Rabbit Node",
howpublished = {\url{https://www.ohwr.org/projects/white-rabbit/wiki/node}},
}
@Misc{biblio:spec,
title = "Simple PCIe FMC carrier (SPEC)",
howpublished = {\url{https://www.ohwr.org/projects/spec/wiki}},
}
@Misc{biblio:svec,
title = "Simple VME FMC Carrier (SVEC)",
howpublished = {\url{https://www.ohwr.org/projects/svec/wiki}},
}
@Misc{biblio:crio,
title = "CompactRIO White Rabbit (cRIO-WR)",
howpublished = {\url{https://www.ohwr.org/projects/crio-wr/wiki}},
}
@Misc{biblio:AFC,
title = "AMC FMC Carrier (AFC)",
howpublished = {\url{https://www.ohwr.org/projects/afc/wiki}},
}
@Misc{biblio:AFCK,
title = "AMC FMC Kindex Carrier (AFCK)",
howpublished = {\url{https://www.ohwr.org/projects/afck/wiki}},
}
@Misc{biblio:cute-wr-dp,
title = "Compact Universal Timing Endpoint Based on White Rabbit with Dual Ports (CUTE-WR-DP)",
howpublished = {\url{https://www.ohwr.org/projects/cute-wr-dp/wiki}},
}
@Misc{biblio:spexi,
title = "Simple PXI express FMC Carrier Board (SPEXI)",
howpublished = {\url{https://www.ohwr.org/projects/spexi/wiki}},
}
@Misc{biblio:MTCA,
title = "White-Rabbit for MTCA.0 \& MTCA.4",
howpublished = {\url{https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/13247/contributions/13585/attachments/11417/14074/White-Rabbit\_for\_MTCA.0\_and\_MTCA.4.pdf}},
}
@Misc{biblio:STRUCK,
title = "SIS1160 8 LANE GEN3 PCI EXPRESS CARRIER FOR DIGITIZER FMCS",
howpublished = {\url{http://www.struck.de/sis1160.html}},
}
@Misc{biblio:sundance,
title = "Sundance PXIe700",
howpublished = {\url{http://www.sundance.technology/som-cariers/pxi-boards/pxie700/}},
}
@Misc{biblio:spdevices,
title = "ADQ7DC - Data Acquisition Unit - Digitizer: 14-bit, 10 GSPS digitizer platform, 1-2 channels",
howpublished = {\url{https://spdevices.com/products/hardware/14-bit-digitizers/adq7dc}},
}
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papers/ISPCS2018/wrApplicationsOverview.tex
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......@@ -79,13 +79,12 @@ is a Bridged Local Area Network (IEEE 802.1Q \cite{biblio:802.1Q}) that uses Eth
(IEEE 802.3 \cite{biblio:IEEE802.3}) to interconnect network elements and
Precision Time Protocol (PTP, IEEE 1588-2008 \cite{biblio:IEEE1588}) to synchronize
these network elements. A WR network consists of two types of network elements
that implement WR enhancements: WR switches and WR nodes. Network elements that
do not implement WR enhancements, non-WR switches and nodes, can be connected
to the WR network and they will see it as a standard PTP Ethernet LAN. WR switches
and nodes, on the other hand, can benefit from the following enhancements:
that implement WR enhancements: WR switches and WR nodes. While any standard
Ethernet network element can be connected to WR network, WR nodes and WR switches
provide:
\begin{enumerate}
\item Sub-ns accuracy and picoseconds precision of synchronization between all
WR switches and WR nodes provided by the WR extension PTP (WR-PTP,
WR switches and WR nodes, such synchronization is provided by the WR extension to PTP (WR-PTP,
\cite{biblio:WRPTP}) and its supporting hardware, described in
\cite{biblio:ISPCS2011}\cite{biblio:TomekMSc}\cite{biblio:WRproject}.
\item Deterministic and low-latency communication between WR nodes provided by
......@@ -107,32 +106,56 @@ Since its conception in 2008, the number of WR applications has grown beyond
any expectations. The reasons for such a proliferation of applications
are the open nature of the WR project and the fact that the WR technology is based
on well-know and well-established standards. The former encourages collaboration,
reuse of work, adaptations and prevents vendor locking. The latter allows to use
of of-the-shelf solutions (hardware/software) with WR networks and catalyzes
reuse of work, adaptations and prevents vendor locking. The latter allows using
of-the-shelf solutions (hardware/software) with WR networks and catalyzes
collaboration with companies.
What started as a project to renovate one of the most critical systems at CERN,
GMT \cite{biblio:GMT}\cite{biblio:GMTJavierPres}, is now a multilaboratory,
multicompany and multinational collaboration developing a technology that is
commercially available, used all over the world, and being incorporated into
the original PTP standard \cite{biblio:P1588WG}\cite{P1588-HA-enhancements}.
% What started as a project to renovate one of the most critical systems at CERN,
% GMT \cite{biblio:GMT}\cite{biblio:GMTJavierPres}, is now a multilaboratory,
% multicompany and multinational collaboration developing a technology that is
% commercially available, used all over the world, and being incorporated into
% the original PTP standard \cite{biblio:P1588WG}\cite{P1588-HA-enhancements}.
This article attempts at providing a snapshot of the various WR applications,
ongoing work on enhancing WR and WR's evolution into IEEE1588.
The article briefly describes in Section~\ref{sec:wrElements} portfolio of
readily available WR network elements. It then explains in
Sections~\ref{sec:time-and-freq}-\ref{sec:RFoverWR} different types of
WR applications, their basic concept and examples of existing system,
summarized in Table~\ref{tab:applications}. Some of the described applications
requires enhancements of WR performance, this enhancements are described in
Section~\ref{sec:WRenhancements}. Finally, in Section~\ref{sec:WRin1588} we
describe the about-to-complete integration of WR in the upcoming revision of the
IEEE1588 standard and conclude in Section~\ref{sec:conclusions}
\section{WR Network Elements}
\label{sec:wrElements}
WR network elements are openly available on the Open Hardware Repository
(OHWR) \cite{biblio:OHWR} and available off-the-shelf from companies, see Figure~\ref{fig:WRN}.
While all of the WR networks use the same design of
WR switch \cite{biblio:wr-switch},
the design of WR nodes depends on application. Thus, WR node design is available
as open-source IP core \cite{biblio:wr-node} that can be easily used in one of
the supported boards or integrated into a custom design. WR-compatible boards
are available on OHWR in various form factors, including:
Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) \cite{biblio:spec},
Versa Module Europa bus (VME) \cite{biblio:svec},
Advanced Mezzanine Card (AMC)\cite{biblio:AFC}\cite{biblio:AFCK},
FPGA Mezzanine Card (FMC) with two WR ports \cite{biblio:cute-wr-dp},
National Instrument's CompactRIO (cRIO) \cite{biblio:crio} and
PCI eXtensions for Instrumentation (PXI) \cite{biblio:spexi}.
All of these boards are commercially available. Morover, more and more
companies integrate WR into their products, e.g.
\cite{biblio:MTCA}\cite{biblio:STRUCK}\cite{biblio:sundance}\cite{biblio:spdevices}.
Such a variety of WR nodes facilitaties
implementations of WR applications described in the following sections
WR Network consists of WR Switches and WR Nodes.
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\begin{figure}[!ht]
\centering
\vspace{0.1cm}
\includegraphics[width=0.4\textwidth]{misc/zoo-v2.jpg}
\includegraphics[width=0.45\textwidth]{misc/zoo-v2.jpg}
\caption{White Rabbit Network.}
\label{fig:WRN}
\end{figure}
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\newpage
\section{Radio-Frequency Transfer (RF)}
\label{sec:RFoverWR}
\subsection{Basic Concept}
Radio-frequency (RF) transfer allows to digitize periodic signals in a WR node, send
their digital form over WR network to other WR nodes, and then regenerate them
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\multicolumn{9}{|l|}{} \\ \hline
\end{tabular}
\label{tab:rawData}
\label{tab:applications}
\end{table*}
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\newpage
\section{Performance Enhancements}
\label{sec:}
\label{sec:WRenhancements}
\subsection{Temperature Compensation}
\label{sec:}
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\section{WR Standardization in IEEE1588}
\label{sec:}
\label{sec:WRin1588}
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\section{Conclusions}
\label{conclusions}
\label{sec:conclusions}
conclusion
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