FOCAL - Forward Calorimeter: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 14:00, 17 February 2011

This page should contain information about the Focal project, especially about the interfacing from the Mimosa chips to the readout electronics.

Overview

Mimosa chips

Readout electronics

Adapterboard

The schematics of the board can be found here: Adapterboard

Control and Readout board

The idea is to use a Xilinx Virtex 6 development board as a first prototype. The board would run Petalinux, and some software to access the firmware registers. A software framework for the TPC detector is to be adapted for the use on the Xirtex 6 board and Petalinux.

Firmware

The VHDL counterpart is to be found here: http://web.ift.uib.no/kjekscgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/alice-fw/trunk/messagebuffer/

Software

The software driver for the message buffer system can be found here: http://web.ift.uib.no/kjekscgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/alice-dcs/trunk/rculinux/dcscMsgBufferInterface/

Petalinux documentation: [1]

Download section

Shopping list

1x 2U 335mm Rack mount enclosure, Grey - 665-7712 - 556,29
1x RD-125A Switch Mode PSU, 5V/15A,12V/10A - 644-6941 - 662,16
3x DC/DC PoL,DOSA,2.4-5.5Vin,0.75-3.3Vo 6A - 150-758 - 116,16
1x 4.20mm,housing,MiniFit,receptacle,DR,6w, - 679-5773 - 2,064
http://www.samtec.com/search/vita57fmc.aspx

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 == Shopping list ==
-x 2U 335mm Rack mount enclosure, Grey - 665-7712 - 556,29
+x 2U 335mm Rack mount enclosure, Grey - 665-7712 - 556,29<br>
-x RD-125A Switch Mode PSU, 5V/15A,12V/10A - 644-6941 - 662,16
+x RD-125A Switch Mode PSU, 5V/15A,12V/10A - 644-6941 - 662,16<br>
-x DC/DC PoL,DOSA,2.4-5.5Vin,0.75-3.3Vo 6A - 150-758 - 116,16
+x DC/DC PoL,DOSA,2.4-5.5Vin,0.75-3.3Vo 6A - 150-758 - 116,16<br>
-x 4.20mm,housing,MiniFit,receptacle,DR,6w, - 679-5773 - 2,064
+x 4.20mm,housing,MiniFit,receptacle,DR,6w, - 679-5773 - 2,064<br>
-http://www.samtec.com/search/vita57fmc.aspx
+http://www.samtec.com/search/vita57fmc.aspx<br>