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The PH/ESE µTCA evaluation project Progress report

The PH/ESE µTCA evaluation project Progress report. Markus Joos in collaboration with Vincent Bobillier, Stefan Haas, Francois Vasey and Paschalis Vichoudis. Project definition. Evaluate µTCA for it suitability as a platform for future modular electronics for HEP experiments. Tasks:

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The PH/ESE µTCA evaluation project Progress report

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  1. The PH/ESE µTCA evaluation projectProgress report Markus Joos in collaboration with Vincent Bobillier, Stefan Haas, Francois Vasey and Paschalis Vichoudis

  2. Project definition Evaluate µTCA for it suitability as a platform for future modular electronics for HEP experiments • Tasks: • Technical evaluation of components for µTCA and MTCA.4 systems • Development of tools (H/W and S/W) for the testing of commercial components • Conduct market surveys • Report results to the xTCA IG • Build up support for components of common interest • Project duration: • February 2011 – mid 2012 • Discussion of continuation in early 2012 Project description: https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/pub/XTCA/PHESExTCAEvaluationProject/mTCAforHEP_V1_6.pdf

  3. Equipment purchased 2 5 3 6 4 1

  4. Equipment developed MMC test AMC MMC mezzanine (based on design from CPPM) AMC load board RTM load board

  5. Results • For the detailed report see: https://espace.cern.ch/ph-dep-ESE-BE-uTCAEvaluationProject/Shared%20Documents/xTCA%20summary.docx • Many (mostly minor) interoperability problems encountered • Components providing the same function (e.g. shelf or MCH) can have very different features and user interfaces (S/W) • µTCA seems to be growing rapidly • Large choice of shelves, MCHs, processors, FPGA/FMC AMCs • Also some digitizers available now • MTCA.4 received well by OEMs • Many customizations • Special signal routing on backplanes • Backplanes with integrated MCH functionality • Many options (cooling, PSUs, data transfer protocols) Trends • CMS & BE/CO: µTCA • ATLAS & LHCb: ATCA

  6. Proposal for the next phase • Complete the tasks of the first phase (MMC S/W, load board H/W and S/W) • Continue the market surveys and maintain contacts with (potential) users via e.g. the xTCA IG • Continue and expand the project with these objectives: • Pay equal attention to µTCA and ATCA • Discuss collaboration with LHCb on ATCA evaluation • Also invite ATLAS to participate • Discuss collaboration with BE/CO on µTCA evaluation • Keep contacts with CMS • Focus efforts of PH/ESE on infrastructure components • Shelves and Power supplies (with focus on electrical and cooling performance) • µTCA MCH modules (and processor AMCs) • Propose procedures for the acceptance testing of (commercial) xTCA components A decision to move forward with this strategy would imply the creation of a new common project loaded with appropriate resources (one or two students and sufficient funding to acquire equipment to be evaluated)

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