10th White Rabbit Workshop - 6-7 October 2018
The 10th WR workshop will be held at CERN, Geneva (Switzerland) on 6-7 October 2018. Topics will include WR technology evolution, applications and the process of standardisation under IEEE 1588. There will also be an introduction for newcomers and ample time for informal discussion in between sessions and during the workshop dinner. If you would like to give a presentation, please send a short abstract and a rough estimate of the duration to Javier Serrano.
We are purposely organising this workshop right after ISPCS, which will also be held at CERN, so that those of you who want to can attend both events. We will post more details about the workshop here as the date approaches. In the meantime, the ISPCS site contains relevant information for things such as travel. For information regarding accommodation in the CERN Hostel, see below. If you are not a subscriber yet, feel free to join the white-rabbit-dev mailing list. This will be the main channel of communication for anything related to the workshop.
Accommodation in CERN Hostel
For the WR Workshop participants, we have pre-booked a block of rooms 5-8 October in the CERN Hostel. Participants can reserve a room by filling in the booking form and sending it to the CERN Housing Service via email, as instructed in the form. Such a reservation can be made until the 4th of September, on a first-come first-served basis. After 4 September or when the block is filled up, reservations can still be made but will depend on the availability of places in the CERN Hostel.
NOTE: In the GUARANTEE (mandatory) section of the booking form, if you do not know what the "Team account" or "Budget code" are, you need to leave these fields blank, send the form and then call the CERN Hotel at the number provided in the form to confirm your reservation with you credit card number.
If you are attending both ISPCS and the WR Workshop, and you want to stay in the CERN Hostel for the both events:
- send via email to the CERN Housing Service both booking forms: WR Workshop booking form and ISPCS booking form (available also from the ISPCS page)
- mention in the email that these two bookings are adjacent and you want to stay in the same room
For accommodation outside of the CERN Hostel, please see information on the ISPCS page.
Registration
WR Workshop participants need to register in order to obtain access to CERN for the duration of the workshop.
The registration will close 14 days before the WR Workshop (i.e. on 21st September 2018). If you are planning to come with a companion who will not participate in the WR Workshop but will stay with you in the CERN Hostel, you need register him/her as well.
Preliminary agenda
Saturday 6 October 2018
Time | Title | Speaker(s) |
08:30 - 09:15 | Introduction to White Rabbit | Javier Serrano |
09:15 - 09:45 | WR switch: status and plans | Greg Daniluk, Adam Wujek |
09:45 - 10:15 | WR PTP core: status and plans | Greg Daniluk, Adam Wujek |
10:15 - 10:45 | WR demo | Greg Daniluk, Adam Wujek |
10:45 - 11:15 | Coffee break | |
11:15 - 11:45 | PPSi: status and plans | Adam Wujek, Maciej Lipiński, Jean-Claude Bau |
11:45 - 12:15 | WR absolute calibration | Peter Jansweijer |
12:15 - 12:45 | IEEE 1588 standardisation update | Maciej Lipiński |
12:45 - 14:00 | Lunch break | |
14:00 - 14:30 | Long Distance White Rabbit | Paul Boven |
14:30 - 15:00 | Frequency & Time Performance Review of a 500km cascaded WhiteRabbit Link | Florian Frank |
15:00 - 15:30 | Towards distributed fault-tolerant timekeeping based on a WR-network | Anders Wallin |
15:30 - 16:00 | White Rabbit Industrial Timing Enhancement | Martina Gertosio |
16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break | |
16:30 - 16:45 | DMTD clock generation using FPGA internal PLLs | Hongming Li |
16:45 - 17:00 | WR development and deployment for the LHAASO project | Guanghua Gong |
17:00 - 17:30 | White Rabbit in Financial Markets | Andreas Lohr |
17:30 - 18:00 | White Rabbit case study: preliminary results | Luis Felipe Murillo, Laia Pujol, Pietari Kauttu |
Sunday 7 October 2018
Time | Title | Speaker(s) |
09:00 - 09:15 | RF distribution over WR | John Gill |
09:15 - 09:30 | WR eXtensions for Instrumentation (WRXI): status and plans | Dimitris Lampridis |
09:30 - 10:00 | On Time - In Time: Successful Operation of the GSI Facility by White Rabbit (except UNILAC) | Dietrich Beck |
10:00 - 10:30 | WR developments in University of Granada (final title tbd) | Javier Díaz |
10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break | |
11:00 - 11:15 | On the black box use of WR supporting the time calibration of GNSS installations for metrological use | Carsten Rieck |
11:15 - 11:30 | The TOWR project | Ricardo Píriz |
11:30 - 12:30 | Discussion session on next-gen WR switch design | All |
Abstracts
- Introduction to WR: an easy introduction to the technology, status, plans and a survey of its current users, mainly aimed at newcomers. We will also briefly discuss the basic delay calibration procedure for switches and nodes, in view of placing Peter's later discussion on absolute calibration in context.
- WR switch: status and plans: the WR switch is the core of any WR network. This talk presents its internal workings in detail and discusses the latest release of the gateware and software, along with plans for the near future.
- WR PTP core: status and plans: designs of WR nodes typically use the WR PTP core. It is an HDL core which gets instantiated in the node's FPGA and ensures basic interfacing with WR. This talk provides details about the internal design, the latest release and plans for the short-term future.
- WR demo: putting together all the bits and pieces that make a WR network, and testing timing and determinism. The demo will also showcase the latest tools for WR network monitoring and diagnostics.
- PPSi: status and plans: PPSi is the PTP stack we use in WR, implementing the WR extensions. It is Free and Open Source and it can run in hosted environments (such as the Linux running in the WR switch) and in bare-metal systems (such as the soft-core CPU inside the WR PTP core). The talk describes its basic design, the details of the latest release and plans for the short-term future.
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WR absolute calibration: On-site network calibration can be
avoided when using absolute calibrated components, which can be
freely exchanged without recalibration.
Absolute calibration of network components (i.e WR devices and electro-optical converters) enables independent developers and/or vendors to exchange their calibrated components while achieving absolute sub ns timing. Absolute calibration enforces standardization. - IEEE 1588 standardisation update: A new revision of the IEEE 1588 standard is approaching publication. This new revision includes concepts derived from WR under the "High Accuracy" denomination. In the future, WR gear will also comply with this new revision, making the extensions outside of the standard superfluous. We will present the current status of the standardisation process and the plans for the coming months.
Files
- ISPCS_Accommodation-28.09.docx
- WR_Workshop_Accommodation-_05.10.docx
- WRPC_status_plans.pptx
- WRPC_status_plans.pdf
- wr_workshop_10_intro.pdf
- WRS_status_plans.pptx
- WRS_status_plans.pdf
- wr_demo.odp
- WR_Absolute_Calibration_WorkShop10.pdf
- WR_Absolute_Calibration_WorkShop10.pptx
- WR_standardization.pptx
- WR_Workshop2018-PPSi-v2.pptx
- Wallin_WRworkshop_2018_v0.pdf
- WRITE.pdf
- WR_workshop_2018_PUJOL_KAUTTU_MURILLO.pdf
- Long_Distance_WR.pdf
- 500km_cascaded--ffrank-v1.pdf
- wr-in-finance-20181006.pdf
- wr-in-finance-20181006.pptx
- WR_development_and_deployment_for_the_LHAASO_project.pdf
- DMTD_clock_generation_using_FPGA_internal_PLLs.pdf
- WRXI_wr_workshop_2018.pdf
- WR_2018_db_v0-13.pdf
- RFoWR.pdf
- ESRF_Timing_10thWRworkshop.pptx
- ESRF_Timing_10thWRworkshop.pdf
- WRWorkshop10_UGR_7Sv02.pptx
- WRWorkshop10_UGR_7Sv02.pdf
- WRWS2018CERN_RIECK_RISE_1.pptx
- TOWR_prez_WR-workshop-2018.pptx
- TOWR_prez_WR-workshop-2018.pdf
- WR_Workshop_2018.jpg