An ATCA and FPGA-based Data Processing Unit for PANDA Experiment

Author

Xu, H. ; Liu, Z.-A. ; Wang, Q. ; Jin, D. ; Muenchow, D. ; Kuehn, W. ; Lange, J.S. ; Spruck, B.

Author_Institution

Inst. of High Energy Phys., Chinese Acad. of Sci., Beijing, China

fYear

2010

fDate

24-28 May 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

An ATCA and FPGA-based Data Processing Unit for PANDA Experiment has been developed. The Unit features 5 Xilinx Virtex-4 FX60 FPGA chips and up to 10 GBytes DDR2 memory. High bandwidth connectivity is provided by 8 additional optical links using RocketIO ports and 5 Gbit Ethernet links to receive data from front-end electronics and transmit the data passed high level trigger to mass storage. A single ATCA shelf can host up to 14 boards which are interconnected via a full mesh backplane. A prototype system has been set up and some tests have been made.

Keywords

data acquisition; field programmable gate arrays; nuclear electronics; parallel processing; telecommunication computing; ATCA shelf; DDR2 memory; Ethernet links; FPGA-based data processing unit; PANDA experiment; RocketIO ports; Xilinx Virtex-4 FX60 FPGA chips; front-end electronics; high bandwidth connectivity; high level trigger; mesh backplane; optical links; Bandwidth; Computer architecture; Data acquisition; Data processing; Ethernet networks; Field programmable gate arrays; Optical fiber communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Real Time Conference (RT), 2010 17th IEEE-NPSS

Conference_Location

Lisbon

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7108-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RTC.2010.5750331

Filename

5750331