A signal distribution board for the timing and fast control master of the CBM experiment

For the CBM experiment a Timing and Fast-Control (TFC) system is being developed. In the detector readout, FPGA-based data processing boards (DPB) are organized in a large number of computing crates. At the crate level, the TFC master is connected to one TFC slave per crate, whereas the DPB AMCs are...

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Published inJournal of instrumentation Vol. 11; no. 2; p. C02001
Main Authors Meder, L., Dreschmann, M., Sander, O., Becker, J.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 01.02.2016
Subjects
Boards
Clocks
Data processing
Instrumentation
Measuring instruments
Signal distribution
Time measurements
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Summary:For the CBM experiment a Timing and Fast-Control (TFC) system is being developed. In the detector readout, FPGA-based data processing boards (DPB) are organized in a large number of computing crates. At the crate level, the TFC master is connected to one TFC slave per crate, whereas the DPB AMCs are interconnected by the crates' infrastructure. In this article, an FMC-based signal distribution board is proposed allowing the transmission of a high-quality clock and timing and fast-control data from and to connected TFC slaves at distances of about 30 meters using twisted-pair cables.
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ISSN:1748-0221
1748-0221
DOI:10.1088/1748-0221/11/02/C02001