Open source ATCA development platform for future DAQ Systems
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Presentation of the Master thesis of Carsten Schmerbeck with the topic: Open source ATCA development platform for future DAQ Systems
Several High-Energy Physics (HEP) experiments have chosen the Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture (ATCA) standard to develop future electronics systems for the mid-late 2020 upgrades. The standard was chosen because its management system requirements ensure maximum reliability and uptime for the end-users. The ATCA slow control architecture could be considered very complex, with a high barrier-to-entry for new designers. The Institute for Data Processing and Electronics (IPE), in collaboration with the Sao Paulo Research and Analysis Center (SPRACE), have created OpenIPMC, a free, open-source ATCA board management solution that provides all board management requirements, therefore lowering the effort of designing a new board. In this work, several design templates targeting the ATCA form factor have been designed with the aim of further lowering the barrier-to-entry and providing an agile method for designing new boards where the designer focuses only on the application. The templates use the OpenIPMC module and include other slow control elements located at the main board, RTM, and AMC cards according to the standard. Two target applications have been designed using the templates, proving that they significantly reduce the effort required to create a new board. The templates were designed in KiCad, an open-source EDA software, and are available on GitHub under an open source license.
Lecture language: English