The European Spallation Source is currently in its most intense phase of construction.
The first scientific user programme is planned to start in 2023. ESS is currently installing
a large scale MicroTCA system deployment and getting the systems ready for test and
commissioning. Hundreds of MicroTCA systems will be deployed including beam instrumentation,
control system, interlock and...
User facilities require an accelerator uptime as high as possible. To help achieve availability of 95% and higher a low level radio frequency (LLRF) on-call service was set in place at DESY to support operation of the European XFEL and FLASH. In this contribution, operational statistics summarizing experts interventions, types of failure and associated downtime will be presented.
nVent SCHROFF has released its new MicroTCA.4 1U chassis and shipped first units. The presentation will take a closer look at the configuration with its 2 slots for Double Mid-size AMC + RTM slots, its additional 2 Single Mid-size slots, the integrated eMCH and its option to mount an additional embedded Clock Module. The backplane topology with its unique ability to switch between 2 fat-pipe...
Increasing demands for modularity and bandwidth especially in Physics applications create a constant challenge to meet the requirements of application from the “low end” (i.e. Industrial PLC type of control) to the “high end” (i.e. data acquisition and processing with high-end FPGAs). Existing switched MOSA (modular open system architecture) approaches such as MicroTCA, which are heavily used...
CAEN ELS FMC-based picoammeters (FMC-Pico-1M4) have been used for a large variety of applications such as beam position monitors, beam loss monitors and as parts of beam stabilization systems and machine protection systems.
With this contribution we present an overview of the CAEN ELS FMC picoammeters installations worldwide.
Standard FMC-Pico-1M4s are mounted on a DAMC-FMC25 AMC...
In this presentation, we will give an overview about MTCA applications beyond accelerators. We will also touch a DDS demonstration in MTCA, to provide a consistent data pool along several MTCA systems in real time.
The MTCA TechLab at DESY officially opened in 2018 with the directive to foster the MTCA.4 standard to be used in research and industrial automation.
Advancing the establishment of a limited company owned by DESY, we are focusing on three major areas such as Developments in MicroTCA (Hardware, Firmware, Software), High-End Test and Measurement Service and Consulting and highly customized...
The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) is under construction on Cerro Armazones in Chile. MicroTCA.4 will be used as a basis for the new modular ESO detector controller for all future visible and IR scientific detectors. The presentation gives an overview over current MTCA.4 related developments at ESO and how the new controller can continue the legacy of the previous ESO detector controller,...
In a cooperation between BEVATECH GmbH and the MTCA TechLab a MicroTCA.4 based Low Level Radio Frequency (LLRF) system was developed and is currently under testing at BEVATECH. This system will be deployed at the Light Ion Linac (LILAC) at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) for the Nuclotron-based Ion Collider faсility (NICA). The LLRF system controls the amplitude and phase of 6...
Teledyne SP Devices provides world-leading modular data acquisition systems. As a long-term partner of MicroTCA Technology Lab, it offers various solutions in µTCA.4 form. Apart from getting a brief overview of the existing portfolio of products, you will get a glimpse of future developments. New functions and implementations will be highlighted and discussed. For example, a new way to take...
The Lodz University of Technology, Department of Microelectronics and Computer Science is involved in the development of MicroTCA.4, MicroTCA.4.1 and the future standards from 2007 onwards. Since that time, we have developed various MicroTCA.4 components including Intelligent Platform Management, Advanced Mezzanine Cards (AMCs), Rear Transition Modules (RTMs) for data acquisition and...
We present the design and basic performance of the MTCA.4-based electronics developed for the new LLRF and BPM systems in SPring-8, which are substitutes for electronics more than 20 years old. We have developed MTCA.4 modules for the new systems, such as a high-speed digitizer AMC, an LLRF RTM, a BPM RTM, and a clock and RF distribution eRTM. To reduce the number of cables, we employed an RF...
The University of Hamburg, in collaboration with DESY, is developing an electrical ground-support equipment phasemeter, or phasemeter simulator, based on the MicroTCA.4 standard, for the space-based gravitational wave detector LISA, funded by the German Aerospace Agency (DLR). The main task of the phasemeter is to extract the phase of various laser interferometer beat note signals with...
The European X-Ray Free Electron Laser facility (European XFEL) has been receiving users for three years now. Multiple experiments has been conducted using the generated ultra short coherent X-Ray flashes, spaced by 220 ns and with a duration of less than 100 femtoseconds, with results now starting to be published in articles and magazines. The MicroTCA platform is at the centre of timing...
In the last few years FPGA chip-makers have shifted their focus towards the development of System on Chip architectures with an ever growing level of peripherals integration to target the new needs of the telecommunication and datacenter markets. Following these trends, DESY and MTCA Technology Lab started the development a set of AMC cards to enable the MTCA market to benefit from these new...
Various Advanced Mezzanine Cards (AMCs) are developed based on the MicroTCA.4 technology. The standard always requires basic functionality including: Module Management and Rear-Transition Module Controllers, fabric interface, power supply, clock and synchronization. The module usually provides some programable resources that can be used by the final application.
A cost-effective but...
Electromechanically systems are irreplaceable in nearly every technical product. In this technical family piezo converter have a very unique selling proposition: high dynamics, ultra-precision, and very high forces per size. They are used for sensor as well as actuation purposes. Piezo actuators have rather small stroke capability. Thus, they are ideal for high tech systems which require high...
SOLEIL is a third generation Synchrotron source located near Paris, France. During the last 18 years, 29 beamlines have been built and it delivers photon beams in a broad range of wavelengths available from Terahertz to hard X-rays. Today SOLEIL envision a major upgrade of the accelerators and beamlines toward a brighter light source. In order to address some actual obsolescence and to...
The MicroTCA standard has evolved from a telecom oriented market towards industrial and science applications over the years. It still supports actual industrial technologies. To keep the MicroTCA standard able to solve future applications it has to adapt to the progressing technologies. A main goal in the development is to keep all changes compatible with the existing standard to preserve the...
Cooling is always a „hot“ topic when configuring crates. Especially now, with the next generation of MicroTCA currently in discussion within PICMG we will soon see modules that consume much more power, going beyond the existing 80 Watts limit. This talk calls to mind the basics of cooling and what mistakes to avoid to keep the modules cool. It also shows which tools crate manufacturers use to...
Light through a wall - The ALPS experiment is a seemingly proposal to make “light shine through a wall”. To achieve this, a laser beam is directed through a powerful magnetic field generated by decommissioned dipole magnets from the HERA ring accelerator. In the event that WISPs (weakly interacting sub-eV particles) do actually exist, some of the photons (particles of light) in the laser beam...
We will present a set of new open hardware modules in MTCA format developed in a large collaboration of research and private sector institutions including Creotech Instruments, Warsaw University of Technology, US ARL, University of Maryland, University of Oxford, QUARTIQ, M-Labs, CERN and LNLS. The modules allow for efficient and flexible integration of multi-purpose control systems. Use cases...
Atom Computing venture-backed startup in Berkeley, California that is building a quantum computer based on optically-trapped neutral atoms. Inspired by particle accelerator control systems developed for high energy physics, we have selected MicroTCA 4 as the basis for the electronic control system that prepares, manipulates, and reads out qubit states that are the basis of quantum...
The next-generation LLRF control system based on MTCA.4 for the J-PARC RCS was successfully deployed in 2019. The performance of the beam loading compensation is much improved and the high intensity beam up to the design intensity, 8.3e13 protons per pulse, is stably accelerated. During the development, we have been supported by the various ingenuity of Japanese companies. The EPICS IOC on...
The high-energy photon source (HEPS) is a 6-GeV ultralow emittance synchrotron radiation light source being built in China. The HEPS global timing system has been designed using MicroTCA.4 based event timing technologies. A prototype bench test system has been developed, and some critical parameters of the timing system have been tested and confirmed using this prototype system. This report...
The Shanghai soft X-ray Free-Electron Laser facility (SXFEL) is
the first X-band FEL facility in China, being developed in two steps,
the SXFEL test facility (SXFEL-TF) and the SXFEL user facility
(SXFEL-UF).The SXFEL-TF, generates 8.8 nm FEL radiation using an 840 MeV
electron Linac passing through the two-stage cascaded HGHG-HGHG or
EEHG-HGHG (echo-enabled harmonic generation, high-gain...
A digital LLRF control has been implemented at the CW linac ELBE at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf. The system is based on the MicroTCA.4 standard and drives four superconducting TESLA cavities and two normal conducting buncher cavities. The system enables a higher flexibility of the field control, improved diagnostics and field stability compared to the analogue system which was used...
At the free-electron laser FLASH@DESY we use MTCA based devices for several different tasks in the photon diagnostics and for user experiments. In particular ADCs are our main work horse to record information about investigated interactions. Several experimental techniques using ADCs as well as their requirements and limits will be presented. In addition, examples of data recording and...
I will give a short overview of the plans for PETRA IV upgrade and
I will present some MTCA applications, which are currently being tested and
developed at the P24 beamline, and which might be relevant for PETRA IV
ChimeraTK is a software framework for the development of control applications. Recently, version 02.00 of ChimeraTK's DeviceAccess, ApplicationCore and ControlSystemAdapter libraries have been released. They feature a new exception reporting and handling scheme, which has been introduced to work consistently across all libraries of the framework. It implements automatic recovery from device...
The FPGA Mezzanine Cards (FMCs) are commonly used in various industrial and scientific projects. FMCs are also often used as an modular extension of Advanced Mezzanine Cards (AMCs) in MicroTCA.4 systems. However, there is no standardized way of identifying FMC module by the FMC Carrier in such systems. It is especially problematic as the FMCs requires a dedicated IO voltage (Vadj) that must be...
The Module Management Controller (MMC) is a mandatory component of every AMC board. DESY is developing, maintaining and licensing a turn-key MMC solution that is used on several hundred boards in different facilities - on DESY's own products as well as on third-party AMC boards developed by industrial customers and project partners.
With the growing number of different boards, the...
This talk summarizes an effort of the IPMI functionality support for MTCA.4 systems in the ESS facility.
