Mr
Dietmar Mann
(Schroff GmbH)
10/12/2013, 15:00
Tutorials by experts
This tutorial covers the basics of MTCA.4. It begins with background information on
why the existing MicroTCA and AMC standards did not satisfy the needs of the Physics
community and what new features were required.
The physical features of MTCA.4 like board sizes, connector definitions, module
insertion/extraction and also the management interface between the RTM and the Front
board are...
Mr
Christoph Stechmann
(DESY)
10/12/2013, 15:45
Tutorials by experts
High reliability and serviceability are two of the main requirements on xTCA systems.
Furthermore a system should be flexible and versatile without raising the administration effort.
Management of each single hardware component in a xTCA is therefore inevitable.
The monitoring of parameters like temperatures and voltages inside the shelf, the handling of interconnections and the...
Mr
Ludwig Petrosyan
(DESY)
10/12/2013, 16:15
Tutorials by experts
One of the main characteristics of any computer architecture is reliability and uninterrupted operation. This important if a system allows a possibility to add and remove devices in run.
The Hot-Swap service is irreplaceable not only in the process of development of final devices but also in the use, thus ensuring continuous functioning of the system as a whole. Such feature plays an...
Mr
Vollrath Dirksen
(N.A.T. GmbH)
10/12/2013, 17:15
Tutorials by experts
The configuration and maintenance of a MTCA.4 system is presented and shown in life demos. This is a follow on tutorial to last years one "Bring up a MTCA.4 System“. (see http://webcast.desy.de/?cat=61)
Covered themes are: set up PCIexpress, PCIexpress hotplug, remote firmware update (.hpm), methods to update FPGA, detection mechanism for issues, maintenance
Dr
Holger Schlarb
(DESY)
11/12/2013, 09:15
Raymond Larsen
(SLAC National Accelerator Lab)
11/12/2013, 09:30
Applications in research facilities
The MicroTCA.4 development under the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group (PICMG) is proving successful in meeting a large range of needs for accelerator controls and instrumentation. A number of further extensions have been undertaken by DESY for the XFEL program for RF distribution which raises the question of preserving interoperability within the standard as important new solutions...
Kay Rehlich
(DESY)
11/12/2013, 09:45
Applications in research facilities
MicroTCA will be used for all fast data acquisition systems of the European-XFEL. First MicroTCA installations for this project are currently commissioned. After a longer shut-down FLASH was equipped with several MicroTCA systems as well. These systems are used successfully in the daily operations. Further MicroTCA crates for a second undulatory beam line are being installed these days. The...
Mr
Matteo Di Cosmo
(CERN)
11/12/2013, 10:00
Applications in research facilities
MicroTCA is a candidate platform for modular electronics for the upgrade of the current generation of high energy physics experiments at CERN. Driven by the rising interest in this standard, the Electronic Systems for Experiments group has launched in 2011 an evaluation project with the aim of performing technical evaluations and eventually providing support for equipment procured on a large...
Dr
Stefan Simrock
(ITER)
11/12/2013, 10:15
Applications in research facilities
ITER requires extensive diagnostics to meet the requirements for machine operation, protection, plasma control and physics studies.
Most of the extremely complex ITER diagnostics systems are provided by the ITER Domestic Agencies (DAs) and their partners. On their demand the IO has created several diagnostics use case examples in different form factors (MTCA.4, ATCA, PXIe) to enhance the...
Mr
Christian Schmidt
(DESY)
11/12/2013, 10:30
Applications in research facilities
The Free Electron Laser in Hamburg (FLASH) provides ultra-short laser pulses down to a wavelength of 4.2 nm. Precision regulation of the RF fields is done by a fast digital LLRF system which has been recently upgraded to the MTCA.4 based platform. Installations inside the acceleration tunnel require a stable and reliable system due to a radiated environment and limited access. Installation...
Mr
Michael Kuntzsch
(HZDR)
11/12/2013, 10:45
Applications in research facilities
ELBE (Electron Linac for beams with high Brilliance and low Emittance) is a multi-purpose radiation source at HZDR (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf). LLRF system controls two normal conducting buncher cavities (one operating at 260 MHz and one at 1300 GHz), a super-conducting gun cavity and 4 super conducting TESLA-type accelerating cavities. The existing analog feedback loop satisfies...
Balasubramanya Bellur Hiriyannaiah
(Vadatech Ltd)
11/12/2013, 11:30
New products
Industry expects the capabilities and performance density of systems to improve over time. This presentation will look at how new chassis and infrastructure elements maximise the space available for payload, packing more capability into smaller spaces.
Mr
Vollrath Dirksen
(N.A.T. GmbH)
11/12/2013, 11:40
New products
This presentation shows a solution to overcome the bottleneck in the data path of the main CPU (root complex), if all IO boards transfer their data via 4 lane PCIexpress DMA. By default all AMC slots offer 4 lanes of PCIexpress transfers. By extending the data path to the local CPU of the NAT-MCH-PHYS64 no modification in the backplane of the MTCA.4 crates is needed to offer a 16 lane...
Mr
Dietmar Mann
(Schroff GmbH)
11/12/2013, 12:00
New products
Pentair/Schroff is one of the companies actively contributing in the development of the PICMG MTCA.4 Standard. Since the last MTCA.4 workshop at DESY in December 2012, Pentair/Schroff has upgraded its MTCA.4 product portfolio.
The presentation shows the range of Schroff products which comply with MTCA.4:
- 12 Slot MTCA.4 chassis with redundant Cooling Units in a push-pull configuration.
-...
Mr
Aksel Saltuklar
(ELMA)
11/12/2013, 12:10
New products
This talk will show hardware solutions for different demands in field
ELMA as a hard ware provider will show scalable products from 1U to 9U
Different accesories will round up this presentaion
Dr
Kirsch Matthias
(Struck Innovative Systeme GmbH)
11/12/2013, 12:20
New products
Struck is an early adopter of the MTCA.4 Standard. The well known 125 MSPS 16-bit SIS8300 V2 and SIS8300-L Xilinx Virtex 5 and 6 based cards will be complemented by the 250 MSPS 16-bit SIS8325 shortly. In parallel DESY's 10 channel DWC10 downconverter and the 8 channel downconverter one channel vector modulator DWC8VM1 RTMs are license products for LLRF applications.
Mr
Thierry Wastiaux
(Interface Concept)
11/12/2013, 12:30
New products
The best that the technology can provide in MTCA.4 Signal Processing
Mr
Thomas Berner
(WIENER Plein + Baus GmbH)
11/12/2013, 12:40
New products
The high power and low noise MTCA.4 power supply made by WIENER Plein & Baus GmbH in Germany features 1000W of total DC output power and further reduced noise & ripple figures. The latest version of this unit includes improved functions for setup and maintenance.
Mr
Simone Farina
(CAEN ELS d.o.o.)
11/12/2013, 12:50
New products
Presentation of a new multi-channel High-Voltage power supply module in AMC.0 rev2 format for MTCA.4 rev1 or MTCA.0 rev1 systems.
Mr
Joel Bovier
(IOxOS Technologies SA)
11/12/2013, 13:00
New products
IOxOS Technologies SA introduces a new MTCA.4 product line based on its most powerful VME64x platform, the IFC_1210 FMC/XMC Intelligent FPGA Controller, and a comprehensive family of ADC mezzanines in FMC form factor, already deployed on particle accelerator control systems in some of the most reputed institutes of Physics.
The new MTCA.4 product line features VITA 57.1 FMC High Pin Count...
Dr
Dariusz Makowski
(Lodz University of Technology, DMCS)
11/12/2013, 14:30
New products
Digital systems used in high speed telecommunication applications, complex data acquisition or control systems of modern Physics transmit enormous amount of data. Every day people break the limits introducing new hardware, standards and protocols allowing transmission of data with higher throughput.
The MTCA.4 hardware was successfully verified with protocols sending data via a single...
Mr
Simon Muff
(Ansys Germany GmbH)
11/12/2013, 14:40
New products
A new 3D Layout interface and meshing technology for the industry standard high frequency structure simulator is shown on example of a PCIe interface, enabling fast and parameterized simulation of physical layer structures as well as their optimization. Statistical methods for data eye calculation and the usage of IBIS AMI and spice models are shown, as well as coupling to thermal and...
Mr
Niels Koll
(TEWS Technologies)
11/12/2013, 14:50
New products
This talk describes an MTCA.4 compliant AMC and µRTM for high channel count analog to digital conversion applications, developed within HVF.
The AMC provides 32 ADCs with 12 or 14 Bit resolution. Depending on the ADC used, sample rates up to 20 Msps are possible.
A powerful clock distribution allows the use of backplane-distributed or on-board generated clocks as ADC sample clock.
A...
Dr
Krzysztof Czuba
(Warsaw University of Technology)
11/12/2013, 15:00
New products
Recently developed RF Backplane (uRFB) option for MTCA.4 crates allows for significant extension of crate capabilities. The backplane was developed to distribute low noise RF signals and high-precision, low-jitter clock signals to RTM cards. The hot-swap feature for RF signals allows the MTCA.4 crate users to build system with multi-channel analog signal processing without many coaxial RF...
Maciek Grzegrzółka
(ISE/WUT)
11/12/2013, 15:10
New products
This contribution describes the design of an Advanced Mezzanine Card (AMC) in the MTCA.4 standard suited for direct analog-to-digital conversion of high-frequency signals up to 2.7 GHz with a maximum ADC clock frequency of 800 MHz. Signal conversion is performed using the undersampling technique. This card was designed for the needs of the LLRF and other control and measurement systems of the...
Mr
Manoel Barros Marin
(CERN)
11/12/2013, 15:20
New products
The AMC Bridge (AB) is a small form factor multipurpose interface board
targeted to users of Advanced Mezzanine Cards (AMCs) that has been designed
at CERN by PH/ESE group. Its intended use is to enhance the stand-alone
capabilities of the AMCs by exploiting some features only accessible through
the AMC connector thus forming a compact bench-top system ideal for
development and test...
Mr
Robert Schachner
(RST Industrie Automation.GmbH)
11/12/2013, 15:30
New products
MTCA.4 is an interesting technological approach that is well suited to usage in sophisticated control systems for automation, medical technology and testing. However, for this approach to be successful users need access to appropriate software technologies.
Mr
Friedrich Fix
(Eicsys Embedded Integrated Control Systems)
11/12/2013, 15:40
New products
During hardware work on data acquisition systems, eicSys has evaluated several form factors and mezzanine standards. First of the most important requirements defined by customers is a system scalability from several analog channels up to thousands. Second one, very important for some customers, is reliability; therefore, ATCA and uTCA standards has been selected for further development.
The...
Mr
Sven Karstensen
(DESY)
12/12/2013, 09:00
Applications in research facilities
The European X-Ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL) linear accelerator will provide an electron beam with energies of up to 17.5 GeV and will use it to generate extremely brilliant pulses of spatially coherent xrays. With a designated average beam power of up to 600 kW and beam spot sizes down to few micrometers, the machine will hold a serious damage potential. To ensure safe operation of the...
Uros Mavric
(DESY)
12/12/2013, 09:15
Applications in research facilities
The first MTCA.4 based laser synchronization system is presented. We use a standard MTCA.4 crate where a high frequency RF front-end detector feeds a fast digitizer AMC board. The processing is carried out in the FPGA located on the digitizer which transmits the control output over a serial link routed on the standard AMC backplane to a receiver FPGA located on a neighboring AMC board. The...
Ulf Behrens
(DESY)
12/12/2013, 09:30
Applications in research facilities
The CMS experiment at the LHC at CERN has decided to upgrade their readout hardware at a large scale from VME to MicroTCA . In this talk major parts of the upgrade will be introduced. As a typical use case in the HEP environment the migration from VME to MTCA.0 will be discussed for a readout crate of a sub detector. The AMC boards developed by the collaboration will be introduced with a focus...
Dr
Matthias Hoffmann
(DESY)
12/12/2013, 09:45
Applications in research facilities
In this contribution, we will present first results of single cavity RF control based on MTCA.4 at REGAE. With the new system design we reduce the system latency down to 600ns, with still room for improvement. This new latency reduced design, allows us to implement an intra-pulse RF feedback for the normal cunducting RF Gun at REGAE. The inloop RMS pulse to pulse jitter were reduced below 30fs.
Mr
Grzegorz Kasprowicz
(Warsaw University of Technology / Creotech Instruments SA)
12/12/2013, 10:00
Applications in research facilities
The Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory (LNLS) is developing a BPM and orbit feedback system for Sirius, the new low emmitance synchrotron light source under construction in Brazil. In that context, 5 open-source boards and accompanying low-level firmware / software were developed in cooperation with the Warsaw University of Technology (WUT) and Creotech Instruments SA to serve as hardware...
Mr
Matthias Felber
(DESY)
12/12/2013, 10:15
Applications in research facilities
The optical synchronization system which is responsible for providing a femtosecond stable timing reference for beam diagnostics, laser synchronization, and the LLRF control at Flash and the European XFEL will use MicroTCA hardware for signal detection, feedback control, and actuator driving. For these purposes some special and some general purpose modules (AMC, RTM, FMC) have been developed....
Dr
Bjoern Spruck
(University Giessen)
12/12/2013, 10:30
Applications in research facilities
In this talk we present the application of the MicroTCA based Compute Node in the Belle II experiment at KEK, Japan. The system comprise an ATCA carrier board and AMC board design based on Virtex-4 FX60 and Virtex-5 FX70T FPGAs. It is designed to perform data acquisition of 22 GB/s and data reduction by a factor <10 at the Belle II pixel detector. The firmware programming comprises buffer...
Mr
Jaroslaw Szewinski
(NCBJ)
12/12/2013, 11:15
Applications in research facilities
Bunch Arrival time Monitor (BAM) is an electro-optical device used at FLASH accelerator in DESY for the high precision, femtosecond scale, measurements of the moment when electron bunch arrives at the reference point in the machine. The arrival time is proportional to the average bunch energy, and is used to calculate the amplitude correction for RF field control. New MTCA.4 devices, dual FMC...
Dr
Andreas Werner
(MPI f. Plasmaphysik)
12/12/2013, 11:29
Applications in research facilities
Wendelstein 7-X is a nuclear fusion experiment based on magnetically confined plasmas. Since nuclear fusion has the potential to be a long term primary energy source, Wendelstein 7-X investigates the reactor capabilities of an advanced stellarator. In contrast to its predecessor, Wendelstein 7-X is equipped with superconducting magnets for enabling steady state plasma operation and access to...
Piotr Perek
(Lodz University of Technology, Department of Microelectronics and Computer Science)
12/12/2013, 11:43
Applications in research facilities
A wide variety of methods employed in diagnostic systems of large-scale physics experiments is based on data from visible and infrared light cameras. Observation of rapid physical processes requires the application of high-speed cameras, therefore the imaging systems should support high-performance image acquisition and processing. The systems should be also easily scalable and should allow...
Andrew Young
(SLAC),
Chengcheng Xu
(SLAC)
12/12/2013, 11:57
Applications in research facilities
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is a premier photon science laboratory. SLAC has a Free Electron Laser facility that will produce 0.5 to 77 Angstroms x-rays and a synchrotron light source facility. In order to achieve this high level of performance, the beam position measurement system needs to be accurate so the electron beam bunch can be stable. We have designed a general purpose...
Mr
Aleksander Mielczarek
(Lodz University of Technology)
12/12/2013, 12:11
Applications in research facilities
XFEL and FLASH machines use magnetic chicanes for compressing the electron bunches and hence obtaining higher beam peak current.
To monitor the operation of the bunch compressors the spatial charge profile should be evaluated. As the bunch is traveling through the beam pipe with relativistic speed it is a very hard task to measure its parameters. One of the methods to do so is by setting an...
Mr
Ian Shearer
(VadaTech Ltd)
12/12/2013, 12:30
Applications in industry
MicroTCA is a powerful architecture that provides benefits over competing solutions in size, price/performance and platform robustness, but is often overlooked when it is viewed as a cut-down version of AdvancedTCA. This paper looks at some specific applications where MicroTCA has been applied, across market segments, to solve particular customer problems.
Mr
Aksel Saltuklar
(ELMA), Mr
Andreas Geisler
(Kontron)
12/12/2013, 12:45
Applications in industry
From the idea to the real product; how to implement MicroTCA in the printing industry.
This talk contains how the VME based old hardware was changed to the new MicroTCA based philosophy. From the thermal challenges to the performance challenges of the CPUs, a long way through the engineering will be shown in this presentation.
Mr
Thomas Holzapfel
(powerBridge Computer)
12/12/2013, 13:00
Applications in industry
The presentation will explain a real existing user application. It will describe the applicationenvironment, as well as the reason for the customer decision. In the presentation the pros and cons of the existing solution will be explained and compared against the new system. It will showcase also some aspects with regards to system integration and possible pitfalls due to backplane topology.
Dr
Konrad Przygoda
(TUL/DESY)
12/12/2013, 13:15
Applications in industry
The Digital Rear Transition Module 4-channel Piezo Driver (DRTM-PZT4) is in charge of driving/sensing piezoelectric based actuators/sensors used in the accelerator instrumentation applications, especially to control: synchronization of pulsed lasers, fiber link stabilization and LLRF cavity tuner. The module is complaint to the MTCA.4 standard. The RTM provides high voltage, high current...
Mr
Tony Rohlev
(TSR Engineering)
12/12/2013, 14:30
Interoperability - further developments
The DRTM-LOG1300 (uLOG) is a MTCA.4 compliant multi-channel local oscillator generator and high frequency signal and clock fan-out module. The module provides the fanout for 9 high frequency reference, 9 local oscillator and 9 calibration signals in the range from 400MHz to 6GHz. In addition, the module provides 22 configurable low jitter differential clock signals in the range up to 160MHz...
Mr
Michael Fenner
(DESY)
12/12/2013, 14:45
Interoperability - further developments
The talk will present the MMC V1.0 software framework for management of MCTA.4 cards. This framework is a "drop-in" module that can be used to implement management of MTCA.4 cards in a very short time.
To allow fast development, DESY also created a hardware reference Platform "MMC V1.0 Starter Kit" that will be presented in the talk. The kit contains an example design for an AMC and a RTM...
Dr
Tomasz Owczarek
(ISE PW)
12/12/2013, 15:00
Interoperability - further developments
The AMC-EMI test board is an AMC board aimed to investige and
qualifiy the EMI perturbances (conductive coupling mode) in MTCA system. The board allows for: measurement of power supply voltages at AMC connector (3.3V_MP, 12V_PP), measurement of low voltage drops caused by currents flowing through ground planes of PCBs or through the crate, introduction of distortion to the AMC-EMI board or...
Dr
Heinz-Hartmut Ibowski
(brightONE ES GmbH)
12/12/2013, 15:15
Interoperability - further developments
The MTCA.4 architecture is specially designed to fulfil the demands of scientific instrumentation with of-the-shelf modules. The use of MTCA.4 in accelerator control is exemplary for applications where there is a mix of highly sensitive analog signals and fast switching digital data. Minimizing the noisefloor results in restrictions for the EMI design of the board. The direct coupling of...
Dr
Frank Ludwig
(DESY)
12/12/2013, 15:30
Interoperability - further developments
To enhance the compatibility and modularity of AMC and RTM boards,
more and more board manufacturers follow the ratified ZOME3 classes
for analog or digital applications. Here, we present the zone description, electrical specifcation, protection sequence and give design examples for application engineers. Future classses will be discussed.
Martin Killenberg
(DESY)
12/12/2013, 16:15
Software for MTCA.4
The DESY MTCA.4 User tool kit (MTCA4U) provides drivers, and a C++ API for accessing the MTCA devices and interfacing to the control system.
The PICe driver is universal for basic access to all devices developed at DESY. Modularity and extendability allow to generate device-specific drivers with a minimum of code, inheriting the functionality of the base driver. A C++ API allows convenient...
Mr
Marko Mehle
(Cosylab)
12/12/2013, 16:30
Software for MTCA.4
The European Spallation Source is one of the largest science and
technology infrastructure projects being built today. This presentation
aims to provide an overview of two uTCA.4-based developments done at
ESS: Timing System and Beam Current Monitor (BCM).
The ESS Timing system is based on the Micro Research Finland (MRF)
platform and is implemented in compactPCI and uTCA.4 form...
Mr
Ludwig Petrosyan
(DESY)
12/12/2013, 16:45
PCI Express is gradually gaining momentum in becoming a new industry standard for many chipset manufacturers and developers. The PCI standard is currently the most widely used architecture.However, recent industry trends indicate chipset manufacturers will also be utilizing the more afficient PCI Express chipsete in future designs, alongside the existing PCI chipsete.
The uTCA as well as the...
Mr
Peter Kaemmerling
(Forschungszentrum Jülich, ZEA-2)
12/12/2013, 17:00
Software for MTCA.4
The Module Management Controller of a MicroTCA-card negotiates with the Carrier Management Controller and the Shelf Management Controller. It handles hardware signals, power load, diagnosis, receives commands. We designed a µTCA-card and used a PIC32MX460 for the MMC to develop the MMC software.
Dr
Kukhee Kim
(SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
12/12/2013, 17:15
Software for MTCA.4
The MicroTCA platform has been selected for usage as the base platform for SLAC control systems for future designs and upgrades - along with embedded linux as the software platform. We have evaluated the microTCA and linux platform for usage in our timing, low-level RF, and BPM systems. We have found that the new platform brings challenges in interrupt handling, and scatter DMA.
Despite...
Dr
Dariusz Makowski
(Lodz University of Technology, Department of Microelectronics and Computer Science)
12/12/2013, 17:30
Software for MTCA.4
The effort to develop extensions to the MicroTCA standards in support of physics applications has had mixed results.
Extensions to the hardware standards to define common I/O interfaces and analog signal distribution paths have defined and approved, with commercial hardware conforming to the new standards already available for purchase. Extensions to the hardware standards to provide for...
Mr
Grzegorz Kasprowicz
(Creotech Instruments SA)
Applications in industry
Creotech Instruments SA is producer and integrator of complex, custom measurement and control systems for industry, science and (recently) space applications.
We believe that Open Hardware is great opportunity for industry and science, especially in applications that require long-term support and non-typical solutions.
Our business model in high-tech segment is based on open hardware and...