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Drivers and Software for MicroTCA.4

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M. Killenberg, L.M. Petrosyan, Ch. Schmidt
DESY, Hamburg, Germany
T. Kozak, P. Prędki, J. Wychowaniak
TUL-DMCS, Łódź, Poland
S. Marsching
Aquenos GmbH, Baden-Baden, Germany
M. Mehle, T. Sunik, K. Žagar
Cosylab, Ljubljana, Slovenia
A. Piotrowski
FastLogic Sp. z o.o., Łódź, Poland

The MicroTCA.4 crate standard provides a powerful electronic platform for digital and analogue signal processing. Besides excellent hardware modularity, it is the software reliability and flexibility as well as the easy integration into existing software infrastructures that will drive the widespread adoption of the new standard. The DESY MicroTCA.4 User Tool Kit (MTCA4U) comprises three main components: A Linux device driver, a C++ API for accessing the MicroTCA.4 devices and a control system interface layer. The main focus of the tool kit is flexibility to enable fast development. The universal, expandable PCIexpress driver and a register mapping library allow out of the box operation of all MicroTCA.4 devices which carry firmware developed with the DESY FPGA board support package. The control system adapter provides callback functions to decouple the application code from the middleware layer. Like this the same business logic can be used at different facilities without further modification.

Slides WCO101 [0.760 MB]

Paper	Title	Page
WCO101	Drivers and Software for MicroTCA.4	1
	M. Killenberg, L.M. Petrosyan, Ch. Schmidt DESY, Hamburg, Germany T. Kozak, P. Prędki, J. Wychowaniak TUL-DMCS, Łódź, Poland S. Marsching Aquenos GmbH, Baden-Baden, Germany M. Mehle, T. Sunik, K. Žagar Cosylab, Ljubljana, Slovenia A. Piotrowski FastLogic Sp. z o.o., Łódź, Poland
	The MicroTCA.4 crate standard provides a powerful electronic platform for digital and analogue signal processing. Besides excellent hardware modularity, it is the software reliability and flexibility as well as the easy integration into existing software infrastructures that will drive the widespread adoption of the new standard. The DESY MicroTCA.4 User Tool Kit (MTCA4U) comprises three main components: A Linux device driver, a C++ API for accessing the MicroTCA.4 devices and a control system interface layer. The main focus of the tool kit is flexibility to enable fast development. The universal, expandable PCIexpress driver and a register mapping library allow out of the box operation of all MicroTCA.4 devices which carry firmware developed with the DESY FPGA board support package. The control system adapter provides callback functions to decouple the application code from the middleware layer. Like this the same business logic can be used at different facilities without further modification.
	Slides WCO101 [0.760 MB]