1. Giovanni Grieco Marketing Division E-mail: g.grieco@caen.it 9th Topical Seminar on Innovative Particle and Radiation Detectors 23 - 26 May 2004 Siena, Italy Via Vetraia, 11 – 55049 VIAREGGIO (Italy) Phone: +39.0584.388398 Fax: +39.0584.388959 E-mail: info@caen.it URL: http://www.caen.it UNI EN ISO 9001 CERT. N. 9105.CAEN Novel Bridges for PC based VME control

2. Siena, 23-26 May '04Novel Bridges for PC based VME control2 Summary Overview Software Conclusions

3. Siena, 23-26 May '04Novel Bridges for PC based VME control3 The requests… Low Cost solution for VME bus control Simple and user friendly Flexible

4. Siena, 23-26 May '04Novel Bridges for PC based VME control4 V1718: VME - USB 2.0 Bridge VME64/64X compliant USB 2.0 Bulk Transaction Protocol Transfer rate: up to 30 MByte/s No additional hardware required No boot required: ready at power-up! Front panel data-way display Seven programmable I/Os Ready

5. Siena, 23-26 May '04Novel Bridges for PC based VME control5 V1718 Block Diagram

6. Siena, 23-26 May '04Novel Bridges for PC based VME control6 V2718+A2818: VME - PCI Bridge VME64/64X compliant Optical Link 1.25 Gbit/s Daisy Chain Capability (up to 8 V2718 per A2818) PCI 32 bit / 33MHz No Protocol Overhead Transfer rate: up to ~60 MByte/sec No boot required: ready at power-up! Front panel data-way display Seven programmable I/Os Ready

7. Siena, 23-26 May '04Novel Bridges for PC based VME control7 V2718 Block Diagram

8. Siena, 23-26 May '04Novel Bridges for PC based VME control8 CONet – Chainable Optical Network A2818 PCI CONet Controller V2718 CONet to VME Bridge Inter-Crate Optical Ring

9. Siena, 23-26 May '04Novel Bridges for PC based VME control9 Utilities Data-way Display: –32 Address + 32 Data + 6 AM + 7 IRQ + AS, DS0, DS1, DTACK, BERR, IACK, WRITE, LWORD, SYSRES, BRQ, BG 5 Outputs + 2 Inputs (NIM or TTL, LEMO connectors): –monitor of DS, AS, DTACK, BERR –I/O registers, pulse generators, scalers, coincidence, etc… –VME Location Monitor (trigger when executed a given cycle at a given address with a given data) –VME execution synchronized with an external signal Front panel LEDs showing VME and I/O activity

10. Siena, 23-26 May '04Novel Bridges for PC based VME control10 VME Characteristics VME master (arbiter or requester) VME slave (registers and SRAM access) Cycles: RW, RMW, BLT, MBLT, IACK, ADO, ADOH Addressing: A16, A24, A32, LCK, CR-CSR Data width: D8, D16, D32, D64 System controller capabilities Interrupt handler Programmable Location monitor

11. Siena, 23-26 May '04Novel Bridges for PC based VME control11 Support: –Windows 98/2000/XP –Linux Libraries: – C/C++ –Visual Basic –LabView Example program Same Application Programmer Interface for both modules !! Available Software

12. Siena, 23-26 May '04Novel Bridges for PC based VME control12 Conclusions Two low cost solutions for easy VME interfacing have been presented: –V1718 for USB 2.0 to VME –V2718 + A2818 for PCI to VME