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MicroTCA.4 Basic Training

Europe/Berlin
Seminar Room 304, Building 3 (DESY Hamburg)

Seminar Room 304, Building 3

DESY Hamburg

Description

MicroTCA.4 Basics: Training for Beginners

Agenda

  • Specification & History of MicroTCA
  • Components of MicroTCA
    • AMC, RTM, MCH, Backplane, RF-Backplane, Crate, Power Supply, Cooling Unit, JSM and Chassis
  • Remote Management
    • IPMI
  • MCH Configuration
  • Data Plane Overview & Configuration
    • PCIe
    • Gigabit Ethernet
    • Point-to-Point connections
    • Timing, Triggers and Interlocks
  • Troubleshooting

 

Hands-On Sessions

  • Enabling and using the management plane
  • Configuring the data plane
  • Backplane viewer, sensors, FRU-Editor
  • Operating the MicroTCA.4 system