8th MicroTCA Workshop for Industry and Research

Session

Session 7: Facility Status Reports

5 Dec 2019, 14:00

CFEL (DESY)

Conveners

Session 7: Facility Status Reports

• Axel Winter (Max Planck Institut für Plasmaphysik)

0. Overview and experience related to MicroTCA applications at the European XFEL Experiments

Mr Bruno Fernandes (European XFEL)

05/12/2019, 14:00

Since start of user operation two years ago, the European X-Ray Free Electron Laser facility (European XFEL) is relying on the MicroTCA platform for timing distribution, data processing from large 2D detectors, fast digitization and processing of pulse signals as well as low latency communication protocol for VETO and Machine Protection System. To cope with the experiments that use the...

14. Firmware and software synchronization for MicroTCA roll-out in the LLRF at CERN

Mr Maciej Suminski (CERN)

05/12/2019, 14:15

During the long shutdown from 2019 to 2020, CERN's Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) is undergoing a comprehensive upgrade of its Low Level RF system, using MicroTCA as a hardware platform. The new system, currently under development, attempts to maximise firmware reuse by implementing its functionality as independent IP cores, each of which must be supported by corresponding software components...

42. ALBA DLLRF using commercial uTCA platform

Angela Salom (ALBA)

05/12/2019, 14:30

The Digital LLRF of ALBA has been implemented using commercial cPCI boards with Virtex¬4 FPGA, fast ADCs and fast DACs. The firmware of the FPGA is based on IQ demodulation technique and the main feed¬back loops adjust the phase and amplitude of the cavity voltage and also the resonance frequency of the cavity. But the evolution of the market is moving towards uTCA technology and due to the...

37. Overview of the MYRRHA project and its LLRF MTCA developments

Mr Wouter De Cock (SCK-CEN)

05/12/2019, 14:45

This talk will discuss the status of the MYRRHA project with a focus on the current and planned LLRF developments for the first phase of the project

21. Development of MTCA.4-Based LLRF System at SSRF

Dr Junqiang Zhang (Shanghai Advanced Research Institute,CAS)

05/12/2019, 15:00

Since we got the first MTCA.4 platform in 2014, MTCA.4-based Low Level RF system has been widely used in many linear accelerators at SSRF. This talk gives an introduction of all accelerator projects, the development of the software and the firmware, and also the performance of the LLRF system.

34. Influences for the cooling performance of a MTCA.4 Crate

Ralf Waldt (nVent Schroff GmbH)

05/12/2019, 15:15

A MicroTCA Crate shall be capable to cool 80W per slot under standard conditions. This presentation shows under which circumstances the cooling performance is tested by the crate vendor. Based on real experience it will show how different slot air impedances, air short cuts or air blocks affects the cooling performance of the crate.

13. Device error handling in ChimeraTK

Martin Killenberg (DESY)

05/12/2019, 15:30

ChimeraTK is a tool kit to write application servers for control systems. When integrating devices into a control system, the device servers usually contain a large fraction of error handling code. Many of these errors are runtime errors which occur when communicating with the hardware. Not only malfunctioning of the hardware can cause these errors, but also a board which is turned off via...

2. Redundant CPU on MicroTCA System with PCI Express Non Transparent Bridge

Mr Ludwig Petrosyan (DESY)

05/12/2019, 15:45

One of the main characteristics of any control system is reliability and uninterrupted operation. Reaching that lofty target, however, requires more than having reliable hardware, hot-swap repair capabilities and robust software design. High availability need help from many redundant components, including redundant CPUs. The PCI Express standard is currently the most widely used...