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