5th MicroTCA Workshop for Industry and Research

High Bandwidth Data Acquisition (HBDQ) MTCA.4.1 Platform

7 Dec 2016, 16:15

15m

CFEL (DESY)

New products and developments Session 4

Speaker

Mr Vollrath Dirksen (N.A.T. GmbH)

Description

This presentation shows how the latest technology enhancements, new upcoming sub-standard MTCA.4.1 and more backplane interconnection create a new performance level of data acquisition. NATIVE-R2 HBDQ platform doubles the bandwidth to each IO-Card and CPU card in its 6 AMC slots and quadruples the bandwidth to the aggregation processing nodes inside and outside the chassis. The NATIVE-R2-HBDQ combines a 2U MTCA.4.1 chassis offering 8 PCIexpress lanes to each AMC slot with the NAT-MCH-PHYS80 offering 80 PCIexpress lanes, where two times 16 PCIexpress lanes (128 Gb/s) are routed to high performance aggregation and processing CPU inside and/or outside the chassis. It comes with the infrastructure for Timing Synchronisation solution based on NAMC-psTimer ( compatible to x2-Timer) and/or White-Rabbit Clock module. NATIVE-R2 HBDQ comes with pre-installed Linux operating system and driver and application software for plugged in timing and synchronisation hardware and for high performance DAQ boards. Cascading the NATIVE-R2 HBDQ solution provides in an 8U frame space for 24 AMC (each with a bandwidth of 64 GT/s) and 24 µRTM slots.

Summary

This on the upcoming MTCA.4.1 sub-standard based platform solves the following requirements and limitations of existing MTCA.4 system:

• enough PCIe bandwidth to aggregate data of latest high performance data acquisition FPGA based cards

• full usage of all 8 PCIexpress lanes of High Performance AMC-CPUs, which until now could only use half of their available lanes in current MTCA.4 crates

• support for high accurate synchronisation of distributed systems over long distances without the need of a separate AMC slot

• debugging of multiple AMCs with FPGA via JTAG during runtime at the same time without the need of multiple or even without any JTAG probe

• out-of-the-box start, as operating system, drivers and timing configuration pre-installed

• small foot print of 2U, 19 inch.

Presentation materials

Slides

Vollrath_Dirksen_-_High_Bandwidth_Data_Acquisition_(HBDQ)_MTCA.4.1_Platform_-_Session_4.pdf