MicroTCA developments for PANDA data acquisition

Author

Drochner, M. ; Kämmerling, P. ; Kleines, H. ; Wüstner, P.

Author_Institution

ZEL, FZ Julich, Julich, Germany

fYear

2010

fDate

24-28 May 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

For data acquisition frontend developments as ADCs, TDCs and custom logics, we are moving to MicroTCA based systems. Our current backplane interconnect, based on a 80MB/S differential parallel (SCSI-like) data link is hitting its throughput limits. MicroTCA gives us enough bandwith for the foreseeable future, and allows to choose from a broad range of carrier and power supply options. The new frontend boards uses a XILINX Virtexδ FPGA for logics and serial interconnects, and a Microchip PIC32 microcontroller for board management.

Keywords

analogue-digital conversion; data acquisition; field programmable gate arrays; interconnections; microcontrollers; nuclear electronics; ADC; MicroTCA; PANDA data acquisition; TDC; XILINX Virtex5 FPGA; board management; current backplane interconnect; custom logics; data acquisition frontend; differential parallel data link; frontend boards; microchip PIC32 microcontroller; power supply options; serial interconnects; Availability; Backplanes; Conferences; Data acquisition; Field programmable gate arrays; Physics; Power supplies;

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.2010.5750395

Filename

5750395