Status of the digital readout electronics Mauro Raggi and F. Gonnella LNF Photon Veto WG CERN 13/12/2011

OUTLINE New lab, a new collaborator, a new paper! New lab, a new collaborator, a new paper! The wiener crate LAV FEE The wiener crate LAV FEE Basic tests of the crates Basic tests of the crates Reprogramming crate voltages Reprogramming crate voltages The status of the TELL1 readout system in Frascati The status of the TELL1 readout system in Frascati

New LAV electronic lab at LNF The lab is equipped with: A NIM and CAMAC crates A commercial VME 6U Daq system (based on HPTDC) A custom LAV FEE 9U crate + 1TELL1 and 2 TDCb V5 A LAV FEE 9U prototype board Proceedings of twepp available on ArXiv We have a new 2 year post doc collaborator: F. Gonnella

LAV readout chain Each LAV FEE boards Get 32 analog inputs and produce 64 LVDS outputs The output is sent to the TDC using 2 custom SCSI2  HDCI cables

The LAV 9U FEE board Operating voltage ±12V reduced to ±7.5V by onboard voltage regulators

Test of the NA62 FEE TEL62 crates

The LAV 9U crate With respect to standard TELL1 crates 46A of a voltage in the range 7-16 has been added. The current Wiener setting we have the voltage set to ±12V for the LAV line. Being the only user of the line we are free to change the value in the range 7-16V.

The TELL1 into LAV crate BUG Crate Power supply TELL1 J1 connectorTELL1 J1 TEL62 J1

Basics tests We performed very basic set of tests on the FEE TEL62 crates. 1)Mechanical test is ok 2)Electrical test of power supply is ok for both the TELL1 and FEE boards 3)Preliminary noise tests: 1)we checked that there is no noise transfer between TELL1 and the FEE A.Same level of noise in the FEE with or without TELL1 in the crate B.No additional noise when accessing the TELL1 using CCPC connection 2)We checked that the noise in the FEE depends on the crates power supply A.Increase the current load to the crate power supply B.Try a new test with V = ±7.5 V to increase the drop on linear regulators External power supply Wiener crate power supply 1,7  s 2mV 0.5  s 7mV

Hacking the LAV crate To save power the LAV FEE can be operated at ±7V instead of the ±12V just removing the regulators and reprogramming the LAV crate to provide ±7V. Reprogramming LAV crate by steps Construct dongle Connect to WINXP Pc with an RS232 port Enable rom access Download PC program UEP6000.exe Restart Crate Set new voltage and new defaults using wiener program Crate is protected against the use of non standard power supply voltage need to reprogram a ROM inside the crate

First LAV readout cell! Connection of LAV FEE to TDC just like it will be at the experiment! Doing the full readout is only adding more FEE and TDCb and routing cables Cable routing studied has to start to validate cable length before final production DAQ test is planned for January next year: Pulse 32 ch FEE inputs read them out with Tell1

TELL1 CCPC server installation A FC11 based pc has been setup as server for the TELL1 A FC11 based pc has been setup as server for the TELL1 Different from standard version with SL4 - SL5 Different from standard version with SL4 - SL5 Few problems with setup of the CCPC due to DHCP settings sitting in different directory in FC11 wrt scientific linux Few problems with setup of the CCPC due to DHCP settings sitting in different directory in FC11 wrt scientific linux The CCPC now boots successfully The CCPC now boots successfully The TDSPY program is running on the CCPC The TDSPY program is running on the CCPC TDSPY scripts currently interacting well with the TELL1 FPGA and TDCb: TDSPY scripts currently interacting well with the TELL1 FPGA and TDCb: FPGA status read and write are all OK FPGA status read and write are all OK TDCb Mezzanine on/off TDCb Mezzanine on/off TDCb tested successfully TDCb tested successfully Clock provided successfully with AGILENT 81110A Clock provided successfully with AGILENT 81110A Clock frequency used MHz Clock frequency used MHz

LAV firmware 2 persons involved in preparing a firmware for the LAV 2 persons involved in preparing a firmware for the LAV Mauro Raggi (LNF) Mauro Raggi (LNF) Francesco Gonnella (LNF, brand new postdoc) Francesco Gonnella (LNF, brand new postdoc) A computer (dual core, XEON 3.1GHz, 2Gbyte RAM) running WIN7 has been setup for firmware development A computer (dual core, XEON 3.1GHz, 2Gbyte RAM) running WIN7 has been setup for firmware development The last version of the TELL1 firmware has been setup, compiled, synthesized The last version of the TELL1 firmware has been setup, compiled, synthesized The firmware (.pof file) has been uploaded to the TELL1 using the ROM The firmware (.pof file) has been uploaded to the TELL1 using the ROM

Run under Windows seven Still to install SVN in local PC. Only works from LXPLUS Mentor Graphics HDL Designer All tools are installed: Altera Quartus II v. 11 Software installed

DDR control Data formatter and writer Data extraction Trigger handling Trigger primitive generator Core services & monitoring Inter-PP communication TDCb comm TDCb DDR II memory Prev PPNext PP From SL FPGA PP-FPGA firmware Data correction LAV specific

QDR control Data formatter and writer Gbit handling TTCrx & trigger handling Core services & monitoring AUX board communication PP0 PP1 PP2 PP3 QDR From TTCrx SL-FPGA Firmware Data merger Trigger primitive merger Trigger primitive handling To Gbit Eth Prev TEL62Next TEL62 LAV specific

Plans Try do run data acquisition with present tell1 firmware Try do run data acquisition with present tell1 firmware Still need some study of the daq software Still need some study of the daq software Start developing a stand alone version of the LAV firmware Start developing a stand alone version of the LAV firmware Start with the development of the data correction module Start with the development of the data correction module Produce an independent test bench with proper simulated inputs Produce an independent test bench with proper simulated inputs Decide in which FPGA we want to set the module Decide in which FPGA we want to set the module