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...