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A new ATLAS muon CSC readout system with system on chip technology on ATCA platform [electronic resource].

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Washington, D.C. : United States. Dept. of Energy. High Energy Physics Division, 2015.
Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy
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pages 272-274 : digital, PDF file
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United States. Department of Energy. High Energy Physics Division and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information
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Summary
The ATLAS muon Cathode Strip Chamber (CSC) back-end readout system has been upgraded during the LHC 2013-2015 shutdown to be able to handle the higher Level-1 trigger rate of 100 kHz and the higher occupancy at Run 2 luminosity. The readout design is based on the Reconfiguration Cluster Element (RCE) concept for high bandwidth generic DAQ implemented on the ATCA platform. The RCE design is based on the new System on Chip Xilinx Zynq series with a processor-centric architecture with ARM processor embedded in FPGA fabric and high speed I/O resources together with auxiliary memories to form a versatile DAQ building block that can host applications tapping into both software and firmware resources. The Cluster on Board (COB) ATCA carrier hosts RCE mezzanines and an embedded Fulcrum network switch to form an online DAQ processing cluster. More compact firmware solutions on the Zynq for G-link, S-link and TTC allowed the full system of 320 G-links from the 32 chambers to be processed by 6 COBs in one ATCA shelf through software waveform feature extraction to output 32 S-links. Furthermore, the full system was installed in Sept. 2014. We will present the RCE/COB design concept, the firmware and software processing architecture, and the experience from the intense commissioning towards LHC Run 2.
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E 1.99:slac-pub--16420
slac-pub--16420
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Published through SciTech Connect.
10/23/2015.
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Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 824 C ISSN 0168-9002 AM
Presented at the 13th Pisa Meeting on Advanced Detectors: Frontier Detectors for Frontier Physics, Livorno (Italy), 24-30 May 2015.
R. Claus.
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Funding Information
AC02-76SF00515
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