# Sinara/DIOT and White Rabbit: Towards a Reusable Timing Platform

- Institution: CERN
- Speaker: Mikolaj Sowinski
- Year: 2026
- Language: English
- Source: [CERN](https://videos.cern.ch/record/3025751)
- Licence: [CERN](https://copyright.web.cern)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Sinara and DIOT provide a concrete opportunity to bring White Rabbit timing into a broader class of scientific control systems, including—but not limited to—quantum computing and quantum networking. The White Rabbit Timing proposal already identifies the need for a reusable layer above WR, with APIs, test programs, documentation, and demonstrators that make precise timing easier to adopt. This talk will use Sinara/DIOT as a practical use case to discuss the value expected from such a reusable layer: clear abstractions, predictable timing behavior, calibration infrastructure, low barrier to first use, portability across hardware and software environments, long-term maintainability, and confidence through testing and documentation. The goal is not to promote a particular implementation path, but to gather feedback from potential users on what would make WR-based timing genuinely usable, reusable, and sustainable across different scientific communities.

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## Lectures

1. [Sinara/DIOT and White Rabbit: Towards a Reusable Timing Platform](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/cern/3025751/0c3089847a90), 18 min (CERN's player)