1. 2 Ball-Grid Array FPGA’s
DMB Production Boards
20 production DMB’s produced and tested.
8-layer PC Board,
2 Ball-Grid Array FPGA’s
718 Components/Board
Stan Durkin, USCMS-EMU Meeting, June 6, 2004

2. DMB Production Boards 17 Boards Passed All Tests
3 Dead Burr-Brown 16 bit ADCs
Bad Chip Lot
- Next 100 Released for Production
Stan Durkin, USCMS-EMU Meeting, June 6, 2004

3. New Crate Controller Development
A VMEbus Controller with Gigabit Ethernet
A custom board designed and developed at OSU
Based on XILINX Virtex-II Pro
Custom firmware.
Optical transceiver (for Gbit Ethernet)
Communicates with stand-alone PC (in USC55) via Gigabit Ethernet
Stan Durkin, USCMS-EMU Meeting, June 6, 2004

4. New Crate Controller Development
Status
Prototype board produced.
Firmware has modular design. Each module full simulated.
Gigabit Ethenet and VME firmware development in advanced stage.
Gigabit communications tested
Interfacing NASA VME 64 Core
Stan Durkin, USCMS-EMU Meeting, June 6, 2004