Author: Uzun, I.S.
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TUAPL05 PandABox: A Multipurpose Platform for Multi-technique Scanning and Feedback Applications 143
 
  • S. Zhang, Y.-M. Abiven, J. Bisou, F. Langlois, G. Renaud, F. Ta, G. Thibaux
    SOLEIL, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
  • M.G. Abbott, T.M. Cobb, C.J. Turner, I.S. Uzun
    DLS, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
  • S.M. Minolli
    NEXEYA Systems, La Couronne, France
  
  PandABox is a development project resulting from a collaboration between Synchrotron SOLEIL and Diamond Light Source started in October 2015. The initial objective driving the project was to provide multi-channel encoder processing for synchronizing data acquisitions with motion systems in experimental continuous scans. The resulting system is a multi-purpose platform well adapted for multi-technique scanning and feedback applications. This flexible and modular platform embeds an industrial electronics board with a powerful Xilinx Zynq 7030 SoC (Avnet PicoZed), FMC slot, SFP module, TTL and LDVS I/Os and removable encoder peripheral modules. In the same manner, the firmware and software framework has been developed in a modular way to be easily configurable and adaptable. The whole system is open and extensible from the hardware level up to integration with control systems like TANGO or EPICS. This paper details the hardware capabilities, platform performance, framework adaptability, and the project status at both sites.
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DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2017-TUAPL05  
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THPHA068 PandABlocks Open FPGA Framework and Web Stack 1539
 
  • C.J. Turner, M.G. Abbott, T.M. Cobb, I.J. Gillingham, I.S. Uzun
    DLS, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
  • Y.-M. Abiven
    SOLEIL, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
  • G. Thibaux
    MEDIANE SYSTEM, Le Pecq, France
  
  PandABlocks is the open source firmware and software stack that powers PandABox, a Zynq SoC based "Position and Acquisition" platform for delivering triggers during multi-technique scanning. PandABlocks consists of a number of FPGA functional blocks that can be wired together at run-time according to application specific requirements. Status reporting and high speed data acquisition is handled by the onboard ARM processor and exposed via a TCP server with a protocol suitable for integration into control systems like "EPICS" or "TANGO". Also included in the framework is a webserver and web GUI to visualize and change the wiring of the blocks. The whole system adapts to the functional blocks present in the current FPGA build, allowing different FPGA firmware be created to support new FMC cards without rebuilding the TCP server and webserver. This paper details how the different layers of PandABlocks work together and how the system can be used to implement novel triggering applications.  
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THPHA115 A New Transverse and Longitudinal Bunch by Bunch Feedback Processor 1649
 
  • M.G. Abbott, G. Rehm, I.S. Uzun
    DLS, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
  
  We describe the development of firmware to support Longitudinal Bunch by Bunch Feedback at Diamond Light source. As well as feedback, the system supports complex experiments and the capture of detailed electron beam diagnostics. In this paper we describe the firmware development and some details of the processing chain. We focus on some of the challenges of FPGA development from the perspective of a software engineer.  
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