Author: Kozak, T.
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MOP292 Universal FMC-Compliant Module for xTCA Systems 663
 
  • D.R. Makowski, G.W. Jabłoński, T. Kozak, A. Mielczarek, A. Napieralski
    TUL-DMCS, Łódź, Poland
 
  Funding: The research leading to these results has received funding from Polish National Science Council Grant 642/N-TESLAXFEL/09/2010/0.
The Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture (ATCA), MicroTCA (uTCA) and Advanced Mezzanine Card (AMC) standards, known as xTCA, provide unique features desired by various control systems of particle accelerators. The standards provide availability and operability as high as 99.999 %. A significant number of additional features must be implemented to take a full advantage of xTCA standards and gain the required availability. On the other hand, many control systems require various data acquisition and control modules with different number of input analogue and digital inputs or outputs as defined by their respective system specifications. The paper presents an universal base module, designed according to the AMC standard with an FPGA Mezzanine Card connector, that can be used for fast development of input-output subsystems. The module consists of two submodules. The digital part is designed according to the AMC standard while the main input-output functionality is realized by the FPGA Mezzanine Card part. The FMC submodule provides the functionality required by the specification of the LLRF system.