White Rabbit eXtensions for Instrumentation
Project description
The aim of this project is to define and implement a standardized communication protocol for instrumentation over a white-rabbit network, which will allow:
- precise synchronization and timestamping
- remote control and test sequence programming
- message exchanging and event distribution
- data acquisition and aggregation
- ...
The CERN BE-CO-HT standard hardware toolkit already includes several WR-enabled projects (eg. fmc-tdc and fmc-delay-1ns-8cha mezzanine cards installed on spec and/or svec carrier boards).
Furthermore, work is currently underway to add WR support to the fmc-adc-100m14b4cha project. More details and current status available here.
Despite the clear applications of such a protocol within CERN (and the accelerator complex in particular), an important goal for this project is to design the WRXI protocol in a "CERN-agnostic" way, so that it can be adopted and re-used by individuals, academic organizations and industrial/commercial entities outside of CERN. See also the list of White Rabbit users.
Requirements
TBD
Project repositories
N/A (yet)
Documentation & HowTo-s
Contacts
General questions about project
- Dimitris Lampridis - CERN
Status
Date | Event |
01-02-2016 | Project started |
Dimitris Lampridis - 11 February 2016