Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Dalesio, Leo" <[email protected]> · Tue, 7 Apr 2015 11:31:35 +0000

Hi Emmanuel,

Our boards are not MTCA. They are pizza boxes. (More appropriate for the NY area).
They have two components:
    The Digital Front End which has
          Xilinz 6
          Event Receiver
          Optical Redundant IO Network for low latency data comm
          4 Ethernet SFPs
          4 GB of DDR RAM
   IO Connector
          Ethernet connection for EPICS
Applications:
       BPM: DFE and a BPM Analog Front End
       Cell Controller: used to distribute BPMs and perform FOFB at 10 Hz, Sends control points over Ethernet to PSs.
       Active Interlock: Cell controller that performs machine protection using 10 kHz machine data
       Correlator: detects events at (50? MHz) - no extra IO used
       Triggered Position Capture: AFE is a general IO board with 8 encoder mirroring signals
       Gerneral Beam line IO: AFE has a set of analog and digital signals that can be captured and time stamped for experiments 8 nsec resolution

LBL is using this platform for their BPMs. THey have a significantly different AFE and they have rewritten the DFE code. The use AXI(SP?), instead of the PLB bus. They plan to make this open source.

BNL has submitted all of the paperwork to make our boards open source.

BNL has ported over the EVR and Synchronous Data Interchange to the ZYNC FPGA. The new DFE is not yet completed.

Bob

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System