Conveners
Software for MicroTCA.4
- Matthias Drochner (FZ Juelich / ZEL)
Dr
Davit Kalantaryan
(DESY)
11/12/2014, 09:00
Software for MTCA.4
Micro Telecommunications Computing Architecture (MicroTCA) is the new generation system, which should allow more stable and reliable control of the accelerator facilities such as FLASH at DESY and the European XFEL. The photo injector test facility at DESY, Zeuthen site (PITZ) is optimizing the electron source for the European XFEL. The MicroTCA system is also planned to be used at PITZ in...
Mr
Pawel Predki
(TUL / DMCS)
11/12/2014, 09:15
Software for MTCA.4
The new MicroTCA.4 hardware platform facilitates control of complex system with a large number of actuators and sensors. However, the number of available devices and their complexity makes it increasingly difficult to simulate and implement a controller design. The usual work flow includes simulating the system behavior, building and testing a controller in the simulation and, finally,...
Mr
Ludwig Petrosyan
(DESY)
11/12/2014, 09:30
Software for MTCA.4
DESY is developing a universal, modular and expandable PCI Express driver for the use in MicroTCA.4 systems. In the last year the driver has seen many improvements. In collaboration with Cosylab, the performance of the Direct Memory Access has significantly been improved. Currently the driver is going through a full review to solve the remaining bugs, ensure stable hot-plug performance,...
Martin Killenberg
(DESY)
11/12/2014, 09:45
Software for MTCA.4
The main goal of the MicroTCA.4 User Tool Kit (MTCA4U) is to facilitate the development of control applications with MicroTCA.4. It provides a universal PCIexpress driver, a C++ library for accessing the MicroTCA devices and tools for interfacing the control system. We report on the new features which have been established, for example command line tools and python bindings which allow easy...
Mr
Humberto Trimiño Mora
(Max-Planck Institut für Plasmaphysik)
11/12/2014, 10:00
Software for MTCA.4
The dispersion interferometer (DI) diagnostic, which can be used to measure line integrated electron density, currently performs data acquisition and signal processing with an FPGA embedded on the SIS8300-L board. This W7-X interferometer is being developed to calculate a real time estimation of the line integrated electron density, store raw data and transmit processed signal for control...
Mr
Michael Fenner
(Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron)
11/12/2014, 10:15
Software for MTCA.4
The MTCA standard provides advanced management, monitoring and diagnostics functionalities. The hardware management is based on the extended Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) protocol, that was initially developed for the supervision of complex computers operation.
The Module Management Controller (MMC) is required on each card installed in the MTCA chassis to provide IPMI...
