Engineering & Instrumentation Department Electronic System Design Group Rob Halsall 2nd June 2005
Electronic System Design Group
DAQ Projects
Group Meeting
CR13/R68
2nd June 2005
10:00-12:00
Engineering & Instrumentation Department Electronic System Design Group Rob Halsall 2nd June 2005
Generic DAQ
• Future of GDAQ?
• DIAMOND & DL main users?
• Complete new hardware?
• Commercial Modules?
• Opto DAQ?
• RH & SQ to meet with Richard Farrow next week
• Talk to Tim /Gareth about DIAMOND
Engineering & Instrumentation Department Electronic System Design Group Rob Halsall 2nd June 2005
Opto DAQ - MAPS• Shipped to
customers
Engineering & Instrumentation Department Electronic System Design Group Rob Halsall 2nd June 2005
DIFFEX
• Based on Opto DAQ engine used in CIQE
• Next
Engineering & Instrumentation Department Electronic System Design Group Rob Halsall 2nd June 2005
Detector hybridService board
Tx -> Clock
Rx <- Clock & 3 x Data
I2C & Count enable
CFI PIXEL
• XDAS - Aladin versus Xchip• CFI funded - funding cut almost immediately• SGB, PS & RH• Proved it worked• LAD -> PENELOPE funded by DIAMOND
PC
GBit E-Net
VII Pro Dev Board
Engineering & Instrumentation Department Electronic System Design Group Rob Halsall 2nd June 2005
Neural MAPS
• 500 Mbyte/s readout logged to disk...
FPGA
DDR SDRAM
DDR SSRAM
ADC Opto Trx Gbit/s
MAPS
Opto Trx Gbit/s
ADC Server PCs
Engineering & Instrumentation Department Electronic System Design Group Rob Halsall 2nd June 2005
MAPS - Laser Tweezers
• 3 Staff Months of effort for design of FPGA engine– Invited to bid for more effort...
Engineering & Instrumentation Department Electronic System Design Group Rob Halsall 2nd June 2005
PENELOPE
• DIAMOND funded Silicon Imager for powder diffraction• Implemented like DIFFEX • High frame rate - 100 Gbyte/s?
• Need to put forward proposal requires DIAMOND approval
• DAQ by ESDG
Engineering & Instrumentation Department Electronic System Design Group Rob Halsall 2nd June 2005
Opto DAQ
• CFI BID III - >£300K £100K– Build our own opto daq module
• Project Spec in progress but...
• Change of emphasis…– Focus on exploiting Gbit Ethernet– Exploit Virtex 4 & new V4 mini modules– May have to use EDK & RTOS for IP– Improve PC software– Develop our own network IP?– Build our own Optical mini module?
Engineering & Instrumentation Department Electronic System Design Group Rob Halsall 2nd June 2005
Opto DAQ/Internal R&D - 10G Ethernet
• VII Pro X loan• 10 G XFP• 10G EMAC eval• 10G NIC/PCs
• Develop own packetiser
• firmware & software
• Apply to– 10/100/1000 etc
Engineering & Instrumentation Department Electronic System Design Group Rob Halsall 2nd June 2005
Opto DAQ/Internal R&D - 10G Ethernet10G Test
setup
Engineering & Instrumentation Department Electronic System Design Group Rob Halsall 2nd June 2005
CFI - FPGA Computing
• RH & SQ Meetings with– DL High Performance Computing Group– ISIS Computing Group– DIAMOND– CULHAM
• Areas– Non RT Compute Power– RT Data processing &visualisation– RT Data processing & Control
• Re-bid for more money...