Timing Receiver: Usage For using a Timing Receiver (TR) please follow the directions here. What is Needed * TR hardware, see here what is supported by the cur...
(Some) Basics of Networking and White Rabbit The prime source for information for White Rabbit project is the Open Hardware Repository. The aim of this page is to...
Data Master, UNILAC PZ and Various Gateways An Overview Introduction Today (December 2021) there exist two Machine Timing Systems at GSI. First, the General Ma...
How To: White Rabbit UNILAC PZ (wr unipz) Coding and Deployment Introduction Stack of the White Rabbit Pulszentrale Figure: Overview on the White Rabbit Pul...
Data Master Manuals DM Technote: DM Manual. A DM Firmware and API Documentation. WIP, about 80% complete. Still trying to keep up with all the implemented feature...
Documentation Data Master Test System Hardware SuperMicro fel0069 The data master for the test system is hosted on SuperMicro fel0069 with two PEXARIA5d (fel006...
How to run and develop tests for the Datamaster General Framework The tests for the datamaster are designed for use during development of datamaster features and...
Einleitung Das Gateway hat die Aufgabe, das zeitbasierte White Rabbit Timingsystem mit der eventbasierten UNILAC Pulszentrale (UNIPZ) zu verbinden. Bei UNIPZ wurd...
Irradiation of Fibres at HHD Cave (SIS18 beam dump) Introduction For FAIR, timing sensitive equipment will be installed in the niches of SIS100. It might be poss...
Irradiation of Fibres at SIS18 Introduction For FAIR, timing sensitive equipment will be installed in the niches of SIS100. It might be possible, that fibres to ...
Timing Network Networks There are several instances of timing networks on the campus. * Productive * production: everything starting with the end of TK ...
Connection to EE Labor This is just a temporary document, to be replaced by some proper documentation. Note on calculating cable lengths The cable length has bee...
Description of the features for the UNILAC Datamaster This describes the planned features for the UNILAC datamaster. The features were presented at the Workshop U...
Main.MichaelReese 14 Aug 2023 Device Driver Tutorial EB slave WB master over PCIe The goal is to write an Etherbone slave that controls a wishbone master on the ...
Main.MichaelReese 15 Feb 2018 PCIe WB bridge direct access mode PCIe timing hardware where the PCIe bridge has been modified to support the "direct access mode" ...
Run the ordinary and boundary clocks using linuxptp The linuxptp package is a PTPv2 implementation according to the IEEE 1588 standard for Linux. It includes the ...
How To: eb rest Introduction This tool has been written to easy 'reset of FPGA'. This cycles the FPGA and (re)loads the image from the flash to the FPGA. Use too...
Test the interoperability of the IEEE 1588 capable network adapters with the White Rabbit switches Introduction This report presents the interoperability between...
GHDL coupling to C via VHPI Motivation It is often useful to call into c libraries from within a VHDL simulation/testbench * because VHDL standard library is ...
Etherbone Introduction The idea behind the EtherBone (EB) protocol is to extend the reach of the embedded Wishbone (WB) V4 System on a chip (SoC) bus system to r...
Install etherbone library on tsl101 server * login on acc8 dev cluster (e.g. asl751) and clone repo and checkout correct branch git clone https://github.com/GS...
Synchronize the clock of non WR devices in the WR network 1. Introduction This document presents specific configurations of White Rabbit (WR) switches, which are...
WR PTP synchronization of WRS under excessive PTP and LLDP traffic 1. Introduction The White Rabbit (WR) technique is specially developed to provide sub nanose...
How To: eb console Set a static IP Timing receivers not connected to a bootp server require a static IP for full operation. This is to be set via the eb console ...
Use port mirroring on a WR switch (WRS) 1. Introduction Although port mirroring is supported by WRSs a corresponding command option is not documented in the user...
Authentication of network nodes and assginment of virtual LAN using the White Rabbit switches 1. Introduction The 802.1x authentication standard is supported by ...
Booster Test December 2021 TL;DR For 'booster mode': * timing the beam transfer from UNILAC to SIS18 works with ~98% efficiency, if rf conditioning at UNILAC ...
Booster Test November 2021 Introduction The so called 'Booster Mode' shall be used to accumulate beam from multiple SIS18 injections into SIS100 at a rate of abo...
How To: White Rabbit UNILAC PZ (wr unipz) Betrieb Betrieb und Rufbereitschaft Kurzversion * keine Einstellungen fuer Betrieb notwendig * nach SCU Reset ...
White Rabbbit UNILAC PZ (wr unipz) Introduction UNIPZ Figure: Most simplified view on UNIPZ (upper part). It is a combination of a Super UNIPZ and seven UNI...
Remote debugging of a running saft daemon with GDB It is possible to connect GDB to a running SCU, set breakpoints, step through the code, print variables, etc. T...
Monitor local system time of a WRS via SNMP 1. Introduction WRS synchronises its local time with an external NTP server, if one is specified in CONFIG_NTP_SERVER...
PEXP Testing and Commissioning Guide Attention: This guide does not check the whole PCIe standard! Attention: This is NOT for FAT Required component...
Saftlib Latency Measurements During the startup of the accelerator in February 2021, issues have been observed with the so called function generator (FG): Occasio...
Reading the DM status To get an overview on whats running on a DM, you can get the basic status by issuing root@tsl017 ~ # dm cmd dev/wbm0 or root@tsl017 ~ # dm...
Documentation of Data Master Error Messages Parser Errors caused by faulty schedule data If any of the following error messages are reported to you or appear in ...
Sending Stuff from GSI Elsewhere THIS HOWTO IS DEPRECATED Requirements * ebiss Account @ GSI, see here * Account number ("Kostenstelle" or "Auftragsnumme...
How To: TMIS Introduction TMIS (Timing Message Information Service) is a quick evaluation on distribution of timing messages via the ACC controls network. The ma...
Timing Messages: How To Snoop the Timing System News FEC for FESA class is now scuxl0143. Introduction This is a first simple solution to view what is going on ...
How To: Configuring and using Altera Ethernet Blaster to flash DM PRO * Download current gateware archive, unpack * Copy jic file to tmp directory on tsl021...
How To: Setting Up a Linux Box Intended usage: E Release For older releases please check out the history of this Wiki page. Introduction This how to describes se...
How To: saft dm Introduction This tool (saft dm: "saft Data Master") is intended to provide a primitive Data Master for local operations in the FEC. This tool mi...
White Rabbit, BuTiS, Clocks and Time Introduction Two systems exist for distribution of time stamps and clocks: 1. The General Machine Timing System provides ...
Testing and Commissioning Guide for Pexaria5 Required components * Pexaria5 under test (named as P5UT in this guide) * PC with Intel Quartus (version 18...
Enigma Release (DEPRECATED) Previous releases are Asterisk, Balloon, Cherry and Doomsday. This release has been replaced by release Fallout. New Features and Bu...
Gateware and Firmware Gateware and firmware are provided with releases. * Gateware: synthesized (V)HDL code * Firmware: compiled code for the lm32 soft CPU ...
Releases and Snapshots of the Timing System Release A Timing Firmware Release packs together new features and requirements defined in our Development Road Map, ...