Speaker
Ms
Min Li
(physics electronics)
Description
The new-generation particle and nuclear physics experiments are run with more channels and larger amount of data transmission. For example, in the high speed and high resolution waveform digitization, more than 10 Gbps date rate in one channel is necessary, thus the traditional architecture based on shared-bus, such as PCI and VME, is of low efficiency and inevitable deadtime. A prototype system based on the Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture (ATCA) is designed, with the purpose of achieving high bandwidth data transmission and less deadtime for the readout electronics in particle and nuclear physics experiment, especially for the waveform digitization.
The prototype system is designed based on the PICMG 3.0 ATCA standard, including hub board and several node boards, all on an 8U shelf. Two methods of point-to-point links, Peripheral Component Interconnect Express TM (PCIe) and fiber, are researched to evaluate the connection of the hub board and node boards through the ATCA dual-dual star backplane. Each node board is designed to produce above 20 Gbps data by Gsps Analog to Digital Converter (ADC) or Filed Programming Gate Array (FPGA), which is also for controlling, data buffering and transmission. The hub board collects all the data transferred from node boards via ATCA backplane. With the abundant inner connections and logic resources in FPGA on it, event selection, data packing and real-time correction can be implemented. Meanwhile, a Gigabit Ethernet port connected to the PC is designed for processed data output.
The initial board testing has been performed and the prototype system has proven to be successful. More laboratory tests will be conducted for further study.
Primary authors
Ms
Min Li
(physics electronics)
Prof.
Qi An
(University of Science & Technology of China)
Prof.
Shubin Liu
(University of Science & Technology of China)
Mr
Zhe Cao
(physics electronics)
