White Rabbit Project
White Rabbit (WR) is a solution to the generic problem of transferring data in a fast, deterministic and safe manner. Although its initial scope is mainly targeted at timing systems for experimental physics facilities, care has been taken to come up with a solution which is as generic as possible. The aim is to be able to synchronize ~1000 nodes with sub-ns accuracy over fiber and copper lengths of up to 10 km. The main technologies used are physical layer syntonization (clock recovery) and PTP (IEEE 1588). Compliance with established standards such as Ethernet and PTP is a key goal of the project.
The White Rabbit project is an on-going collaborative project for which first generation components have been designed and evaluated for use in real, mostly scientific, applications. The list of users is expanding rapidly with metrological institutes and astronomical observation centres evaluating White Rabbit.
The hardware design for the White Rabbit switch is licensed under the CERN Open Hardware Licence while the firmware and driver software also is available under "open" licences.
Main White Rabbit features:
- sub-nanosecond synchronization
- connecting thousands of nodes
- typical distances of 10 km between nodes
- Ethernet-based gigabit rate reliable data transfer
- fully open hardware, firmware and software
- multi-vendor commercially produced hardware
EMC² Project
EMC² – ‘Embedded Multi-Core systems for Mixed Criticality applications in dynamic and changeable real-time environments’ is an ARTEMIS Joint Undertaking project in the Innovation Pilot Programme ‘Computing platforms for embedded systems’ (AIPP5).
Embedded systems are the key innovation driver to improve almost all mechatronic products with cheaper and even new functionalities. They support today’s information society as inter-system communication enabler. A major industrial challenge arises from the need to face cost efficient integration of different applications with different levels of safety and security on a single computing platform in an open context.
EMC² finds solutions for dynamic adaptability in open systems, provides handling of mixed criticality applications under real-time conditions, scalability and utmost flexibility, full scale deployment and management of integrated tool chains, through the entire lifecycle.
The objective of EMC² is to establish Multi-Core technology in all relevant Embedded Systems domains.
EMC² is a project of 99 partners of embedded industry and research from 19 European countries with an effort of about 800 person years and a total budget of about 100 million Euro.
The Square Kilometre Array Project
The Square Kilometre Array will be the world’s largest and most sensitive radio telescope.
Thousands of linked radio wave receptors will be located in Australia and in Southern Africa. Combining the signals from the antennas in each region will create a telescope with a collecting area equivalent to a dish with an area of about one square kilometre.
The SKA will address fundamental unanswered questions about our Universe including how the first stars and galaxies formed after the Big Bang, how galaxies have evolved since then, the role of magnetism in the cosmos, the nature of gravity, and the search for life beyond Earth.
The Square Kilometre Array is a global science and engineering project led by the SKA Organisation, a not-for-profit company with its headquarters at Jodrell Bank Observatory, near Manchester, UK.
An array of dish receptors will extend into eight African countries from a central core region in the Karoo desert of South Africa. A further array of mid frequency aperture arrays will also be built in the Karoo. A smaller array of dish receptors and an array of low frequency aperture arrays will be located in the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in Western Australia.
Construction is scheduled to start in 2016.
RECOMP European Project (Reduced Certification Costs Using Trusted Multi-core Platforms)
"RECOMP" stands for Reduced Certification Costs Using Trusted Multi-core Platforms and is a European funded project from ARTEMIS JOINT UNDERTAKING (JU). The project started April 1th of 2010 and has duration of 36 months.
RECOMP research project pretend to form a joint European task force contributing to the European Standard Reference
Technology Platform for enabling cost-efficient certification and re-certification of safety-critical systems and mixed-criticality systems, i.e. systems containing safety-cr
itical and non-safety-critical components. The aim is establish methods, tools and platforms for enabling cost-efficient (re-)certification of safety-critical and mixed-criticality systems. Applications addressed are automotive, aerospace, industrial control systems, and lifts and transportation systems.
RECOMP recognizes the fact that the increasing processing power of embedded systems is mainly provided by increasing the number of processing cores. The increased numbers of cores is a design challenge in the safety-critical area, as there are no established approaches to achieve certification. At the same time there is an increased need for flexibility in the products in the safety-critical market. This need for flexibility puts new requirements on the customization and the upgradability of both the non-safety-critical and safety-critical parts. The difficulty with this is the large cost in both effort and money of the re-certification of the modified software.
RECOMP will provide reference designs and platform architectures, together with the required design methods and tools, for achieving cost-effective certification and re-certification of mixed-criticality, component based, multicore systems. The aim of RECOMP is to define a European standard reference technology, supported by the European tool vendors participating in RECOMP.
Previous Projects
- "Técnicas de interacción para entornos inmersivos con dispositivos móviles y de bajo coste: Aplicación a videojuegos y museos" (Professional MSc. Degree Thesis - year 2011)
- "Uso de un sistema GRID para la extraccion de medidas del sensor MERIS del satelite ENVISAT" (MSc. Thesis - year 2008)