Speaker
Mr
Marko Mehle
(Cosylab)
Description
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 factors. A
uTCA.4 timing receiver prototype was developed and integrated into the
EPICS control system using the MRF EVR PMC and TEWS TAMC260 PMC carrier
card. The uTCA.4 timing receiver will make use of the LVDS trigger lines
in the backplane to deliver triggers to other cards.
The Beam Current Monitor is based on the Struck SIS8300 fast digitizer.
First version of the BCM included development of EPICS support for the
SIS8300 digitizer and data processing in software. Custom SIS8300
firmware is under development to process data in hardware, which will
enable fast detection of beam losses through differential current
measurements.
Primary author
Mr
Marko Mehle
(Cosylab)
