During last few months we have been involved in the development of FMC TDC software support for Linux, i.e., writing a driver for it along with an user-space library and a bunch of test programs.
But first of all, let me show you what is a Time-to-Digital converter (TDC)
In electronic instrumentation and signal processing, a time to digital converter (abbreviated TDC) is a device for recognizing events and providing a digital representation of the time they occurred. For example, a TDC might output the time of arrival for each incoming pulse. Some applications wish to measure the time interval between two events rather than some notion of an absolute time.
Source: Wikipedia
In summary, it measures the time of arrival of each incoming pulse and saves the timestamp into the memory, ready to be read later on by the user. This time, this is a mezzanine board plugged to a carrier board across the FMC bus, hence its name.
The board was designed by CERN to fulfill their needs in the control system. They published the schematics and all the needed design files under CERN Open Hardware license. You can check them out from its project page at OHWR website. Remember that it is still in the prototyping phase.
The FMC TDC driver depends on ZIO framework and FMC bus driver to work. Also, as we were developing it using the SPEC board as a carrier board, the SPEC driver is needed to perform the I/O operations from/to the FMC TDC board.
There is still work to be done like adapting the code to last ZIO changes and improve the documentation, but it is quite close to what we can call "1.0" version :-)
All the code is hosted in OHWR, under its own project. If you are interested on following its development, I recommend you to subscribe to the mailing list.