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AIDA Front-End Electronics Progress Report July 2008

Detailed progress report on the development of FPGA-based front-end electronics for AIDA project, including FPGA choice, milestones, experiences with ML507 Xilinx development kit, and FPGA resources.

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AIDA Front-End Electronics Progress Report July 2008

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  1. AIDA Front end electronics Report July 2008 Progress Virtex5 FPGA choice Milestones for prototype delivery AIDA FEE Report

  2. Progress • Completed the FEE specification. • Currently out for comments (1st July) • Schematic capture started. • FPGA part design. • Processor peripheral component choices • ML507 purchased and delivered • Development kit with new FPGA. AIDA FEE Report

  3. Virtex5 FPGA choice • Will Linux work and be useable in an FPGA without a processor ? • Software development environment, Gbit rates, who else is doing it ? • Can data channels share FPGA resources ? • RAM and DSP blocks. AIDA FEE Report

  4. Experiences with ML507 Xilinx development kit ML507 : Virtex5-FXT70 containing a PowerPC 440 with 256Mbyte RAM, Gbit ethernet and other peripherals • DENX ELDK 4.1 : Public domain Embedded Linux Development Kit => cross compilers and tool kit for PPC 440 • Xilinx supply Linux kernel 2.6.25 with drivers for Virtex5 specific hardware (for example LLTemac - Gbit ethernet) • Using the ELDK can configure and build the Linux kernel for the ML507 on a Linux workstation. • Root file system via NFS on a standard server. • This was working within a couple of days of receiving the ML507 • Clear advantage of using PPC processor and Linux AIDA FEE Report

  5. Experiences with ML507 • Testing network performance. • Use standard test program from the MIDAS data acquisition suite which uses the data acquisition transfer library to send simulated data. • Receiver is a Dell workstation running Linux with the MIDAS tape server receiver stage discarding received data. Block size 64 Kbytes. • Data transfer rate 440 blocks/sec or 28Mbyte/sec • This took just as long as needed to compile the test program with the PC440 cross compiler. • All MIDAS software etc will run within the PPC Linux processor AIDA FEE Report

  6. FPGA outline block diagram AIDA FEE Report

  7. FPGA resources • Digital channel ( x 64 ) : 4,217kbits • Memory - 65kbits per channel • Circulating buffer ( slow in fast out ): 1024x16 • Waveform store : 3072x16 • Energy queue : 10 x 36 • DSP - two • MWD : one for multiply and add • Discriminator : one for multiply and add • Analog channels (one per ASIC) :65kbits • Buffer memory : 1024 x 16 AIDA FEE Report

  8. FPGA choice • Require • Memory : 4,282 kbits • DSP : 128 • SX95T • Memory : 8,576 kbits • DSP : 640 • No processor • FX70T • Memory : 5,328 kbits • DSP : 128 • PowerPC 440 processor with large LINUX user community • Both types are Virtex5 with the same pcb footprint. Further FPGAs with greater resources are planned. AIDA FEE Report

  9. Milestones for Prototype FEE delivery (Changes included in blue) • Design ASIC Mezzanine • 29th Sept 2008. => Delayed • Deliver 6 ASIC Mezzanines • 17th Nov 2008 => medium risk • Assemble ASICs onto Mezzanines • During Dec 2008 at Liverpool • Complete Kapton board : • 1st February 2009 => low risk • Complete Specification : • 1st July 2008 => Achieved • Complete Schematic and PCB layout : • 15th Sept 2008. => Delayed • Deliver 6 FEE cards ( 6 weeks ) : • 27th Oct 2008 => medium risk • Complete Prototype VHDL : • 1st December 2008 => Medium risk • Commission FEE cards : • 1st February 2009 => High risk AIDA FEE Report

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