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CRU Slow Control

CRU Slow Control. Erno DAVID, Tivadar KISS Wigner Research Center for Physics (HU). 1 6 December, 2015. Control Functionalities via CRU. I. Hardware management of the CRU and the GBT links themselves:

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CRU Slow Control

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  1. CRU Slow Control Erno DAVID, Tivadar KISSWigner Research Center for Physics (HU) 16 December, 2015

  2. Control Functionalities via CRU • I. Hardware management of the CRU and the GBT links themselves: • 1) Configuring the GBT link itself: R/W of GBTx own control registers (LHC clock phase, laser driver) • Possible: via the embedded control channel „Internal” of the GBT. • Memory mapped register R/W to GBT control registers in CRU. • CRU translates this to communicate with the GBTx (on FECs) in the GBT embedded control channel „Internal”. • 2) Configuring the CRU HW (PCIe40 card) itself (e.g. MiniPODs) • Possible: with memory mapped register R/W of the CRU own control registers. •  CRU FW translates them to on-board I2C control chains of PCIe40 card (MiniPODs, external PLL, etc.). • 3) Configuring the CRU Functionality (i.e. CRU FW) • Possible: memory mapped register R/W of the CRU own control registers. • II. Control of the Detector and Trigger components • 4) „Slow” control (HW configuration) of FEC boards • Possible: via the embedded control channel „External” of the GBTand with the help of the GBT-SCA chip. • Memory mapped register R/W to FE control registers in CRU. (The content shall follow the HDLC protocol.) • CRU translates this to communicate with the GBT-SCA (on FECs) in the GBT embedded control channel „External”. •  GBT-SCA chip interprets and translates them to FEC-on-board I2C, SPI, MDIO, JTAG, GPIO) control chains. • 5) „Fast” control of FEC boards w/ FPGA (e.g. download big data, pedestals, FE-FPGA firmware image, etc) • Possible: via GBT data channel. (Possible only for detectors where GBT data channel is not used for trigger and timing or/and FE- ASIC read-out control). •  General packet based, or single word transactions. • 6) „Fast” control of trigger units w/FPGA (CTP, LTU) • Possible: via GBT data channel. (Like “Fast contorol of FEC boards w/FPGA.) •  General packet based, or single word transactions. 2

  3. CRU Firmware Slow Control SoC Architecture FLP Server PCIe40 Board Linux CRU API Arria 10 FPGA O2 Software GBT-SCA User Logic TTS, GBT,…(core modules) [0..47] x 2 bit @ 40 MHz Custom Interface [0..47] x 2 bit @ 40 MHz QSYS PCIe Endpoint 0bar_x_masterAvalon-MM Master250 MHz x 32/64 bit DCS Software QSYS Interconnect (250 MHz x 32/64 bit) ??? Software GBTx ASIC I2C ? [0..47] x 2 bit @ 40 MHz [0..47] x 2 bit @ 40 MHz SFP+ Si 5338 MiniPOD 0 MiniPOD 7 Arria 10 Firmware Flash . . . 3

  4. GBT-SCA IP • GBT-SCA IP for the CRU prototype (few (1-4) GBT links): • Outgoing interface: 2 bit @ 40 MHz, separated 40 MHz TX and RX clock domains • Avalon-MM interface v1 (single pending command): TX payload registers + go bit, RX payload registers + rcv bit, single 250 MHz PCIe clock domain • Avalon-MM interface v2 (multiple commands): TX payload and command FIFO, RX payload and packet info FIFO, single 250 MHz PCIe clock domain • Comment: Separated GBT-SCA IPs per GBT channels can be a bottleneck in the full design (it requires more PCIe bus access, no broadcast support, etc). We should investigate IP with multiple GBT links support like the LHCb solution (https://cds.cern.ch/record/1972398?ln=en). • Next steps: • We have to understand our GBT-SCA usage patterns. E.g. how to access a I2C slave connected to SCA (read/write), how to control the JTAG master port? What is the maximum SCA HDLC packet payload size? (the Verilog IP uses 4 byte for TX and 5 byte for RX). Is it sufficient for our needs? • We have to gain full understanding of HDLC CRC-16 calculation. We can use the ISO specification and the Caratelli's source code (which we know that has been tested with GBT-SCA). • We have to populate our GitLab repository (https://gitlab.cern.ch/alice-cru/gbtsca_eval). • Simulation difficulties: the golden reference is a Verilog file but we develop VHDL and mixed mode simulation is not supported by the Altera Modelsim Edition. • Hardware testing difficulties: needs a real GBT-SCA (no FPGA based SCA emulator exists) and an Altera based GBT link (with CRU FW+SW). 4

  5. GBT-SCA Interface Variations Avalon-MM Interface (e.g. like the Verilog IP?): (this is just an example) +0 : CTRL(8) +4 : STATUS(8) +8 : DATA_TX/RX_HI(32) +12 : DATA_TX/RX_LO(32) +16 : - +20 : - +24 : ENABLE(1) GBT-SCA gbt_tx_clk_i gbt_tx_data_o[1:0] gbt_rx_clk_i gbt_rx_data_i[1:0] mms_reset mms_clk mms_address[15:0] mms_write mms_writedata[31:0] mms_read mms_readdata[31:0] mms_rvalid mms_irq GBTInterface Avalon-MMSlaveInterface GBT-SCA IP with single GBT link support Avalon-MM Interface: • FIFO based TX and RX interface for multiple cmd. • Burst support GBT-SCA gbt_tx_clk_i[N-1:0] gbt_tx_data_o[2*N-1:0] gbt_rx_clk_i[N-1:0] gbt_rx_data_i[2*N-1:0] mms_reset mms_clk mms_address[15:0] mms_write mms_writedata[31:0] mms_read mms_readdata[31:0] mms_rvalid mms_irq mms_waitrequest mms_burstcount[5:0] GBTInterface Avalon-MMSlaveInterface N = Number of the GBT Links GBT-SCA IP with multiple GBT links support

  6. GBT-SCA IP Simulation Setup Testbench 2 bit @ 40 MHz or1 bit @ 80 MHz GBT-SCA(Emulator) GBT-SCA(Controller) 2 bit @ 40 MHz or1 bit @ 80 MHz Avalon-MM Master Emulator:- Receives SCA commands- Generates valid responses Avalon-MM Master Controller:- Sends SCA commands- Checks the responses 6

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