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...
Synchrotron beamline is a complex spectroscopic system comprising numerous actuators and sensors. Successful scans demand data acquisition and precise motion control of multitude motors distributed over several parts of the system (diffractometer, monochromator, shutters).
The beamlines at DESY facility use legacy VMEbus motion control cards that are limited in I/O features and processing...
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...
