Author: Farina, S.
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TUAPL01 MicroTCA Generic Data Acquisition Systems at ESS 118
 
  • S. Farina, J.H. Lee, J.P.S. Martins, D.P. Piso
    ESS, Lund, Sweden
 
  The European Spallation Source (ESS) is a Partnership of 17 European Nations committed to the goal of collectively building and operating the world's leading facility for research by use of neutrons by the second quarter of the 21st Century. The strive for innovation and the challenges that need to be overcome in order to achieve the requested performances pushed towards the adoption of one of the newest standards available on the market. ESS has decided to use MicroTCA as standard platform for the systems that require high data throughput and high uptime. The implications of this choice on the architecture of the systems will be described with emphasis on the data acquisition electronics.  
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DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2017-TUAPL01  
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THPHA133 MicroTCA.4 Integration at ESS: From the Front-End Electronics to the EPICS OPI 1692
 
  • J.P.S. Martins, S. Farina, J.H. Lee, D.P. Piso
    ESS, Lund, Sweden
 
  The European Spallation Source (ESS) is a collaboration of 17 European countries that is building a leading neutron research center in Lund, Sweden. The ESS facility will have the most powerful neutron source in the world, providing 5 MW of beam power. The Integrated Control Systems Division (ICS) is responsible for all the control systems for the whole facility. For the accelerator control system, ICS will provide different hardware platforms according to the requirements of each specific system. For high performance systems, demanding high data throughput, the hardware platform is the MicroTCA.4 standard. This work presents the software stack that makes the integration of a high-end MicroTCA.4 hardware into the ESS Control System, with the implementation details of the FPGA firmware framework, kernel and userspace drivers, EPICS device support and finally the EPICS IOC that controls the MicroTCA.4 boards.  
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