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The meeting on June 2, 2005, assessed the direction of the GroupDAQ within the Engineering & Instrumentation Department. Discussions led by Rob Halsall focused on various projects including DIAMOND and OptoDAQ developments. Key topics included the need for new hardware solutions, potential modules for commercial use, and the integration of high-speed data processing and networking capabilities. The agenda emphasized collaboration with Richard Farrow, future bids for funding, and advancements in FPGA designs, optical modules, and Ethernet technologies. The importance of ongoing internal R&D was also highlighted.
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Electronic System Design GroupDAQ Projects Group Meeting CR13/R68 2nd June 2005 10:00-12:00 Engineering & Instrumentation Department Electronic System Design Group Rob Halsall 2nd June 2005
Future of GDAQ? DIAMOND & DL main users? Complete new hardware? Commercial Modules? Opto DAQ? RH & SQ to meet with Richard Farrow next week Talk to Tim /Gareth about DIAMOND Generic DAQ Engineering & Instrumentation Department Electronic System Design Group Rob Halsall 2nd June 2005
Opto DAQ - MAPS • Shipped to customers Engineering & Instrumentation Department Electronic System Design Group Rob Halsall 2nd June 2005
DIFFEX • Based on Opto DAQ engine used in CIQE • Next Engineering & Instrumentation Department Electronic System Design Group Rob Halsall 2nd June 2005
XDAS - Aladin versus Xchip CFI funded - funding cut almost immediately SGB, PS & RH Proved it worked LAD -> PENELOPE funded by DIAMOND CFI PIXEL PC VII Pro Dev Board Service board Detector hybrid Rx <- Clock & 3 x Data Tx -> Clock GBit E-Net I2C & Count enable Engineering & Instrumentation Department Electronic System Design Group Rob Halsall 2nd June 2005
500 Mbyte/s readout logged to disk... Neural MAPS DDR SDRAM MAPS ADC Opto Trx Gbit/s Server PCs FPGA ADC Opto Trx Gbit/s DDR SSRAM Engineering & Instrumentation Department Electronic System Design Group Rob Halsall 2nd June 2005
MAPS - Laser Tweezers • 3 Staff Months of effort for design of FPGA engine • Invited to bid for more effort... Engineering & Instrumentation Department Electronic System Design Group Rob Halsall 2nd June 2005
PENELOPE • DIAMOND funded Silicon Imager for powder diffraction • Implemented like DIFFEX • High frame rate - 100 Gbyte/s? • Need to put forward proposal requires DIAMOND approval • DAQ by ESDG Engineering & Instrumentation Department Electronic System Design Group Rob Halsall 2nd June 2005
Opto DAQ • CFI BID III - >£300K £100K • Build our own opto daq module • Project Spec in progress but... • Change of emphasis… • Focus on exploiting Gbit Ethernet • Exploit Virtex 4 & new V4 mini modules • May have to use EDK & RTOS for IP • Improve PC software • Develop our own network IP? • Build our own Optical mini module? Engineering & Instrumentation Department Electronic System Design Group Rob Halsall 2nd June 2005
Opto DAQ/Internal R&D - 10G Ethernet • VII Pro X loan • 10 G XFP • 10G EMAC eval • 10G NIC/PCs • Develop own packetiser • firmware & software • Apply to • 10/100/1000 etc Engineering & Instrumentation Department Electronic System Design Group Rob Halsall 2nd June 2005
Opto DAQ/Internal R&D - 10G Ethernet 10G Test setup Engineering & Instrumentation Department Electronic System Design Group Rob Halsall 2nd June 2005
CFI - FPGA Computing • RH & SQ Meetings with • DL High Performance Computing Group • ISIS Computing Group • DIAMOND • CULHAM • Areas • Non RT Compute Power • RT Data processing &visualisation • RT Data processing & Control • Re-bid for more money... Engineering & Instrumentation Department Electronic System Design Group Rob Halsall 2nd June 2005