MicroTCA.4 Basic Training

3 Feb 2021, 10:00 → 4 Feb 2021, 17:00 Europe/Berlin

Seminar Room BAH1,ground floor, building 3 (DESY Hamburg)

Cagil Guemues (DESY), Gohar Ayvazyan (DESY), Jan Marjanovic (DESY), Nadja Mäder (DESY)

 

MicroTCA.4 Basics: Training for Beginners
 

Topics

• Introduction to MicroTCA
  • Requirements
  • History of MicroTCA
• Components
  • Crate
  • Advanced Mezzanine Card (AMC)
  • Rear Transition Module (RTM)
  • MicroTCA Carrier Hub (MCH)
  • Backplane
  • RF-Backplane
  • Power Supply
  • Cooling Unit
  • JSM
• Backplane
• Management
• Interface to MCH
• Data plane
  • Introduction
  • Gigabit Ethernet
  • PCI Express
• Point-to-point links
• Timing, Triggers and Interlocks
• Troubleshooting
• Application Talk

Hands-On Sessions

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