AIDA Beam-Telescope TLU Hardware for TimePix TLU

AIDA Beam-Telescope AIDA Beam-Telescope TLU HardwareTLU Hardware

for TimePix TLUfor TimePix TLU

David CussansDavid Cussans

AIDA and Timepix Discussion

March 8, 2011

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EUDET Beam-Telescope TLU

AIDA Beam-Telescope will be a development of EUDET JRA1 TLU

Accepts PMT/NIM/TTL input signalsForms a trigger ( AND/OR/VETOSends triggers to “Device Under Test”Integrated with EUDAQ data acquisition system

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AIDA Beam-Telescope TLU

Mini-TLU being developed nowFMC ( FPGA Mezzanine Card) formatCould be used as hardware for TimePix TLUTimepix specific firmware from Daniel Esparante?Gigabit Ethernet communication

Use IPBusDeveloped for CMS upgrade Hardware UDP/IP. Faster, uses less space

than microprocessorWorking now.

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Hardware Signals

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Status

Schematic capture ~ 30% complete.Template with FMC outline, connector doneProject created on CERN OHWR site:

http://www.ohwr.org/projects/fmc-mtlu

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Summary

Hardware development underwayPossibility of mutually beneficial collaboration

Reduce hardware costsBetter tested hardware and firmware