Development of the optical multiplexer board prototype for data acquisition in TileCal experiment

Author

Torres, J. ; González, V. ; Sanchis, E. ; Soret, J. ; Martos, J. ; Castelo, J. ; Castillo, V. ; Cuenca, C. ; Ferrer, A. ; Fullana, E. ; Higón, E. ; Poveda, J. ; Ruiz, A. ; Salvachúa, B. ; Solans, C. ; Vails, J.A. ; Munar, A. ; Iglesias, C. ; Valero, A.

Author_Institution

Dept. Ingenieria Electronica, Univ. de Valencia

fYear

2005

fDate

10-10 June 2005

Abstract

The optical multiplexer board is one of the elements present in the read out chain of the tile calorimeter in ATLAS experiment. Due to radiation effects, two optical fibers with the same data come out from the front end boards to this board, which has to decide in real time which one carries good data and pass them to the read out driver motherboard for processing. This paper describes the design and tests of the first prototype, implemented as a 6U VME64x slave module, including both hardware and firmware aspects. In this last, algorithms for cyclic redundancy code checking are used to make the decision. Besides, the board may be used as a data injector for testing purposes of the read out driver motherboard

Keywords

calorimeters; cyclic redundancy check codes; data acquisition; firmware; multiplexing equipment; readout electronics; cyclic redundancy code checking; data acquisition; firmware; optical multiplexer board prototype; readout driver motherboard; tile calorimeter; Cyclic redundancy check codes; Data acquisition; Hardware; Microprogramming; Multiplexing; Optical fibers; Prototypes; Radiation effects; Testing; Tiles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Real Time Conference, 2005. 14th IEEE-NPSS

Conference_Location

Stockholm

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9183-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RTC.2005.1547475

Filename

1547475