W-TSN Evaluation Kit
Experience the benefits of extending TSN capabilities to Wi-Fi networks with a pre-installed hardware setup.
W-TSN evaluation kit features and modalities
Hardware
Wireless Hardware - Access Point
1 W-TSN access point (Zync ZCU102 board, AD-FMCOMMS4 RF front-end, antennas, AD-TRXBOOST1 power amplifier)
Hardware
Wireless Hardware - Stations
2 W-TSN clients (Zedboard Zync-7000, AD-FMCOMMS4 RF front-end, antennas, AD-TRXBOOST1 power amplifier)
Hardware
Wired Hardware
1 wired client (PC Engine apu2e4) and 1 Linux TSN switch (Qotom Q818GE)
Hardware
Controller
1 Intel NUC 10 acting as Central Network Controller (CNC)
Hardware
Other
Power and Ethernet cables and manual
Software
Wireless stack
Linux mac80211 compatible full-stack Wi-Fi supporting 802.11a/g/n, 20MHz bandwidth, AP/STA/ad-hoc mode, DCF
Software
Synchronization
openwifi HW timestamping, linuxptp for sync accuracies < 1.5μs
Software
Scheduling
802.1Qbv wired scheduling, imec’s 802.1Qbv extension for openwifi access point and clients with 4 HW queues, cycle lengths from 512 to 65636 μs, slot lengths from 128 to 16384 μs
Software
Monitoring
Real-time in-band telemetry to collect in real-time statistics of network flows.
Software
Control
Central controller for management, end-to-end scheduling, visualization of monitoring data

Modalities

Scope & use
For internal evaluation purposes
Duration
For 6 months: start upon delivery / goods to be returned upon termination
Support
Training manual + 1 training day. Dedicated support of maximum 2 days.

W-TSN in action!

Balance ball demo: impact of normal Wi-Fi (2nd part of video) and Wi-Fi with TSN extensions (first part of video) on a closed wireless control loop
Deterministic handover capabilities