Documents

Technical Documents

General Machine Timing System

• Timing System @ GSI
  • Master (10/2019)
  • Network (04/2015)
  • Current Snapshot , Release (current) , All Releases (09/2020)
  • Simplified API For Timing (saftlib) (09/2020)
  • Etherbone (05/2018)
  • Related to UNILAC (and MIL)
    • Overview DM, UNIPZ, Gateway ... (12/2021)
    • DM-UNIPZ: Gateway from (Ring) Data Master to UNILAC (11/2024)
    • WR-UNIPZ: White Rabbit interface for the legacy UNILAC Pulszentrale (08/2020)
    • UNI-CHOP: Firmware and Monitoring for UNILAC Chopper (@ICU) (11/2024)
    • WR-MIL: White Rabbit to MIL Gateway (11/2024)
    • WR-F50: 50 Hz synchronization at UNILAC (11/2024)
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  • Message Format (08/2020)
  • MIL Event Telegram Format) (10/2024)
  • Group Numbers (02/2025)
  • Event Numbers (10/2024)
  • Reports and Measurements (04/2024)
  • Policies (11/2014)
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  • Description of the General Machine Timing System (01/2013)
  • Description of Timing Receivers (07/2014)
  • Gateware and Firmware (09/2020)
  • ECA Unit
    • Design Document (05/2013)
    • Appendix Design Document (08/2013)
    • Scheduling (03/2015)
    • presentation by Wesley (04/2023)
  • Concepts for FAIR Timing (02/2014)

White Rabbit

• Emilio G. Cota et al. White Rabbit Specification: Draft for Comments (3/2019)
• Cesar Prados and Maciej Lipinski White Rabbit and Robustness: Draft for Comments (9/2011)
• White Rabbit Switch v6.1, wiki
  • user manual, pdf
  • developer manual, pdf
  • failures and diagnostics, pdf
  • radiusvlan, pdf
• White Rabbit Switch Hardware 4.0
• T. Włostowski Note on using WR Switch in Grandmaster mode (10/2012)
• Grzegorz Daniluk White Rabbit PTP Core User’s Manual v4.2 (12/2019)

Application of White Rabbit at CERN

• Discussion On A White Rabbit based CERN Control and Timing Network (11/2011)

Talks, Papers, Thesis work

General Machine Timing System

• Talk, White Rabbit Workshop Mar 2024, Dietrich Beck: WRC Related Activities at GSI, pdf (12/2024)
• Paper, Zs. Major et al: High-Energy Laser Facility PHELIX at GSI: Latest Advances and Extended Capabilities, section 3.4, https://doi.org/10.1017/hpl.2024.17 (05/2024)
• Talk, White Rabbit Workshop Mar 2024, Dietrich Beck: WR at GSI - Status and Near Future, pdf (03/2024)
• Talk, MicroTCA Workshop DESY, Dietrich Beck: The White Rabbit based Timing System for GSI and FAIR, pdf (12/2023)
• Talk, Meeting Jan 2023, Enkhbold Ochirsuren: Probing the FBAS event signaling via the WR timing network, pdf (02/2023)
• Talk, White Rabbit Workshop Oct 2022, Dietrich Beck: Operational experience with a WR-based timing system in GSI, pdf (10/2022)
• Talk, White Rabbit Workshop Oct 2021, Dietrich Beck: White Rabbit Infrastructure at GSI, pdf (11/2021)
• Talk, Presentation in Meeting Aug 2020, Martin Skorsky: Data Master Test - Validation in CarpeDM, pdf (08/2022)
• Talk, White Rabbit Workshop Oct 2018, Dietrich Beck: On Time - In Time: Successful Operation of the GSI Facility by White Rabbit (except UNILAC), pdf (03/2019)
• PhD Thesis, Jiaoni Bai: Development of the timing system for the Bunch-to-Bucket transfer between the FAIR accelerators, PhD J. Bai, 2017 (11/2017)
• PhD Thesis, Mathias Kreider: On Time, in Style: Nanosecond Accuracy in Network Control Systems, PhD M. Kreider, 2017 (08/2017)
• Talk, GSI How To Flash a Timing Receiver from the Command Line (12/2016)
• PCaPAC 2014, Karlsruhe, Germany, Inexpensive Scheduling in FPGAs, talk (03/2015)
• PCaPAC 2014, Karlsruhe, Germany, Launching the FAIR Timing System with CRYRING, talk (03/2015)
• PCaPAC 2014, Karlsruhe, Germany, New developments on the FAIR Data Master, talk (03/2015)
• 2nd PhD Science Day, Frankfurt, Germany, First Idea on Bunch to Bucket Transfer for FAIR, poster (08/2014)
• GSI Scientific Report 2013, White Rabbit Applications for FAIR Experiments (11/2014)
• GSI Scientific Report 2013, Paving the Way for the General Machine Timing System (11/2014)
• ICALEPCS 2013, San Francisco, USA, FAIR Timing System Developments Based on White Rabbit, poster (12/2013)
• Talk HepTECH Workshop zu Open Hardware, Darmstadt, Germany, Experience and Perspectives of Open Hardware “at GSI” talk, (06/2013)
• Talk R3B Meeting, Darmstadt, Germany, Status General Machine Timing System, talk, (05/2013)
• PCaPAC 2012, Kolkata, India, Facility-Wide Synchronization of Standard FAIR Equipment Controllers, poster. proceeding (12/2012)
• PCaPAC 2012, Kolkata, India, The New White Rabbit Based Timing System for the FAIR Facility, invited talk, proceeding (12/2012)
• GSI Scientific Report 2011 White Rabbit Technology as Basis for the FAIR Timing System (06/2012)
• Talk, GSI, Towards the FAIR Timing System using White Rabbits (01/2012)
• FAIR Technical Note, Tibor Fleck et al., Integration and Linking between FAIR Timing System and BuTiS (05/2010)
• Talk, GSI, FAIR Timing System and White Rabbit (07/2010)
• FAIR Accelerator Control System Baseline Technical Report General Machine Timing (GMT) System (11/2009)

White Rabbit

• Talk: Maciej Lipiński and Adam Wujek Status of the WR Switch (current v3 and new v4), White Rabbit Workshop 2022, CERN, Switzerland (11/2022)
• Tutorial: Mathias Kreider To the very nanosecond - Tutorial on high precision timing ITA 2015, Wrexham, UK (09/2015) (LibreOffice > 4.2 req)
• Talk: Mathias Kreider, GSI White Rabbit Timing System (3/2011)
• Mathias Kreider et al., Open borders for system-on-a-chip buses: A wire format for connecting large physics controls Phys Rev Spec Top Acc Beams 15 (2012) 082801
• W.W. Terpstra, The Case For Soft-CPUs in Accelerator Control Systems (proceeding) (talk), THCHMUST05, Proceedings of ICALEPCS (2011) Grenoble, France (03/2015)
• Opencores, Wishbone B4 WISHBONE System-on-Chip (SoC) Interconnection Architecture for Portable IP Cores (2010) Standard (03/2015)
• Publications on ohwr.org http://www.ohwr.org/projects/white-rabbit/wiki/WRpublications (6/2012)

Related to White Rabbit

• Talk: Enkhbold Ochirsuren, PTP OC and BC with Linuxptp (pdf), Timing Team Meeting @ GSI, (11/2022)
• Talk: Peter Moritz, GSI, Talk: Bunchphase-Time Synchronization System „BuTiS“ (10/2010)
• Doc: LOBI requirements, lobi_ftrn_requirements_v3.2.pdf (04/2016)

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