Conveners
Intercompatibility/ Further Standard Development
- Friedrich Fix (Elma electronic GmbH)
Dr
Peter Goettlicher
(DESY)
12/12/2012, 14:30
Session 5: Intercompatibility / Further Standard Development
The xTCA standard is a crate standard for high speed digital processing and data transfers. In MTCA.4, extended MTCA for research, also analogue circuits are installed into the same crate. By that it will be a mixed mode design without closed shielding to the different regions.The difference of modern differential digital and of analogue signal transfers and the sensitivity of analogue...
Mrs
Irene Hahner
(Kontron Europe GmbH)
12/12/2012, 14:45
Session 5: Intercompatibility / Further Standard Development
The Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) offers a lot of data about a
system and/or board. This data provide information like voltages, temperatures, fan speed on system level and many others.
The questions that arise are:
• How can we get access to this data?
• How can we make use of this data?
• How can applications benefit from the available information?
The presentation...
Mr
Vollrath Dirksen
(N.A.T. GmbH)
12/12/2012, 15:00
Session 5: Intercompatibility / Further Standard Development
This presentation shows, how to optimize the space in MTCA.4 chassis by saving up to 6 AMC slots. This solution maximize the number of available IO slots up to 12 slots.
Even so rear transition modules are defined in MTCA.4 standard the number of AMC slots is limited to 12 AMC slots plus 12 µRTM slots.
So far some AMC slots are used for CPU, SATA storage and graphic boards. In redundant...
Dr
Krzysztof Czuba
(ISE, Warsaw University of Technology)
12/12/2012, 15:15
Session 5: Intercompatibility / Further Standard Development
Modern accelerator control systems take advantages of the MTCA.4 platform to implement parallel processing of tens of RF signals within one crate. The analog front-end electronics require distribution of many high-freqency signals (like phase reference and Local Oscillator (LO)) to all cards located in the crate. This can be realized by coaxial cables but it reduces system reliability,...
Mr
Niels Koll
(TEWS Technologies GmbH)
12/12/2012, 15:30
Session 5: Intercompatibility / Further Standard Development
FPGA AMCs compliant to MTCA.4 are very generic modules that are available in a broad range of computing capabilities. To adapt them to different applications, an application-specific µRTM is needed.
For a successful µRTM design, several aspects have to be observed which will be discussed in detail.
Dr
Frank Ludwig
(DESY)
12/12/2012, 15:45
Session 5: Intercompatibility / Further Standard Development
To improve the compatibility and modularity of AMC and RTM boards we present a classification recommondation of the undefined Z3 connector pin assignment in the MTCA.4 standard for analog and digital applications. This implies a zone description, electrical specification, electrical protection sequence, E-keying and grounding and shielding options.
