Welcome to the XTCA web

This is the TWiki home page of the xTCA Interest Group

Introduction

The xTCA Interest Group has been established during the TWEPP2010 workshop in Aachen. Its mission is to further the exchange of information between developers of xTCA components (both H/W and S/W) for application in HEP experiments or accelerators. The membership is open to all representatives of non-profit organisations. Anyone who would like to join is requested to contact the convener: Markus Joos

Meetings

It is planned to meet twice per year; either within the framework of a suitable HEP conference or virtually via EVO.

Past meetings

1st meeting

September 2010 @ TEWPP2010 in Aachen. Link to contributions

2nd meeting

March 2011 @ CERN: Link to contributions

3rd meeting

September 2011 @ TEWPP2011 in Vienna. Link to contributions

4th meeting

The 4th meeting took place at CERN on Tuesday, 17 April 2012. The agenda is available here.

5th meeting

The 5th meeting took place at on Wednesday, 19 September 2012 in Oxford as part of the TWEPP conference. The agenda with presentations is available here.

6th meeting

The 6th meeting took place at CERN on 9 April 2013. The presentations are available here.

7th meeting

The 7th meeting took place during the TWEPP 2013 conference on Thursday, 26 September at 17:00. The agenda with presentations is available here.

8th meeting

The 8th meeting took place at CERN on 17 March 2014 at 14:00. An slides of the presentation are available here.

9th meeting

The 9th meeting took place on Wednesday, 25 February 2015 at 14:00 in room 4-S-30. The agenda is here

10th meeting

The 10th meeting took place on Thursday, 10 March 2016 at 15:00 in room 13-2-5. The agenda is here

11th meeting

The 11th meeting took place on Thursday, 29 September 2016 in the late afternoon (~16:30 – 18:30) during the TWEPP 2016 conference

12th meeting

The 12th meeting took place at CERN on Thursday, 15 June 2017 at 15:00 in room 40-R-D10. The agenda is here

13th meeting

The 13th meeting took place at CERN on Friday, 27 April 2018 at 10:00 in room 13-2-5. The agenda is here

14th meeting

The 14th meeting took place at CERN on Friday, 10 May 2019 at 15:00 in room 6-2-24. The agenda is here

15th meeting

The 15th meeting took place on Wednesday, 13 May 2020 at 15:00. The agenda is here

16th meeting

The 16th meeting took place on Tuesday, 11 May 2021 at 15:00. The agenda is here. Zoom: 81176881

17th meeting

The 17th meeting took place on Tuesday, 10 May 2022 at 15:00. The agenda is here. Zoom: link

18th meeting

The 18th meeting took place on Tuesday, 9 May 2023 at 15:00 in hybrid format (room 6/R-12 and Zoom). The agenda is here.

19th meeting

The 19th meeting will take place on Tuesday, 23 April 2024 at 15:00 in hybrid format (room 6/2-024 (BE auditorium) and Zoom). The agenda is here. Zoom: link

Mailing lists

All participants will be added to the xtca-news@cernNOSPAMNOSPAMPLEASE.ch mailing list. This mailing list will be used to announce information relevant for the members of the xTCA Interest Group as well as xTCA related announcements of interest to CERN based people. In case you have problems posting mails to this list (because you don't have a CERN account) please contact one of the conveners.

Project repository

We are encouraging all participants to upload some brief information about their completed, current and future xTCA related projects to this TWiki table.

Project name	Type	Short description	Status	Contact person	Institute	Link to further information
uTCA @ DESY	various projects	An overview of uTCA projects at DESY for the European XFEL	Under development	Kay Rehlich	DESY	Link to DESY
AMC13	MicroTCA MCH	AMC (in MCH site) for clock/controls/DAQ functions	Deployed in CMS and other	Eric HAZEN	Boston University	AMC13 Page
APOLLO	ATCA	Platform for multiple ATCA blades	Prototyping	Eric Hazen	Boston University	APOLLO Page
GLIB	mid size, double width AMC	An evaluation platform and an easy entry point for users of high speed optical links	Under development	Paschalis VICHOUDIS	CERN	Web page
MMC_HW	28.5 x 20.5 mm mezzanine card for AMC board	A mezzanine implementing the Module Management Controller functions required by the µTCA standard	Available (as well as a ref. design)	Vincent BOBILLIER	CERN	Web page
MMC_SW	MMC SW for the Atmega128 the MMC mezzanine is based on	SW implementing the Module Management Controller functions required by the µTCA standard, including HPM.1 support	Available	Julian MENDEZ, Markus JOOS	CERN	Web page
GLIB_MMC_TEST	mid size, double width AMC	An evaluation platform for the MMC mezzanine carried by the GLIB	Under development	Paschalis VICHOUDIS	CERN	Web page
WR MCH	full size, single width MCH	Used in the White Rabbit switch	Under development	Tomasz WLOSTOWSKI	CERN	Web page
MINI-T5	full/mid size, double width AMC	Processing card for an upgraded Level-1 Calorimeter Trigger. Substantial connectivity:160Gb/s optical, 64Gb/s LVDS	In system tests	Greg ILES	Imperial College London	Web page
ALB	mid size, double width AMC	An AMC load board based on the CPPM MMC that allows to control and monitor on-board dummy loads for crate power and cooling test purpose.	Available - In use for the evaluation tests of different uTCA crates	Vincent BOBILLIER	CERN	Web page
uTCA evaluation	Evaluations of commercial products	Test various properties of commercial uTCA components	Under development	Markus Joos	CERN	project description
AMT	mid size, single width AMC	An easy to use MMC test board for the full functionnality testing of the CPPM MMC.	Available - In use for testing MMC mezzanine cards	Vincent BOBILLIER	CERN	Specification doc
MicroHAL	Firmware+Software	Provides Hardware Access Library (HAL). Modular + scalable design. Currently consists of IPBus, ControlHub and uHAL	In system tests			WebPage
IPBus	Firmware	Provides firmware for R/W/RMW + Block R/W register/memory access over UDP/IP. Wishbone compatible.	In system tests	Dave Newbold	University of Bristol	WebPage
ControlHub	Software	Provides a uniform interface between the hardware access methods ( e.g. IPBus, VME , USB) and the higher-layer abstractions (e.g. MicroHAL).	In system tests	Rob Frazier	University of Bristol	WebPage
Redwood	Software	software layer which maps registers onto C++ objects. Can talk to the ControlHub or directly to IPBus devices.	In system tests	Andrew Rose	Imperial College London	WebPage
ATCA @ IPFN for Nuclear Fusion	Several Projects	Overview of several projects for nuclear fusion applications including ATCA IO boards and RTMs and a controller	Several completed and several ongoing developments	Bruno Soares Gonçalves	IPFN-IST	WebPage & Summary presentation
ABBA	Various projects	A set of boards for mastering ATCA and preparing upgrade of ATLAS LAr Back End electronics: ATCA Controller Mezzanine (hardware & software) + ATCA Test Board + ATLAS LAr ROD Evaluator	Under development	Guy PERROT	LAPP	LAPP presentation
Sirius BPM back-end	double-width AMC	Double-width AMC with dual high-pin count FMC slots for digital signal processing, data acquisition and feedback control in beam position monitoring (BPM) systems.	Under development	Daniel Tavares	CNPEM/LNLS	link
MP7	double-width AMC	General purpose data processing with Xilinx Virtex-7 FPGA & 740 Gbps of input & output optical bandwidth	Available	Greg Iles	Imperial College London	link
JSM	AMC size (not AMC)	JTAG Switch Module for CERN Scroff / Elma crates	Development	Andrew Rose	Imperial College London	link
TwinMux	double-width AMC	Optical data concentrator with Xilinx Virtex-7 FPGA, Input: 72x1.6Gbps and 12x10Gbps, Output: 12x10Gbps	Prototype ready	Andrea Triossi	INFN/CERN	link
fwATCA	Slow control	A WinCC framework tool to automate and assist in integrating ATCA Chassis into the Detector Control Systems.	Replaced by fwAtca for ATCA OCP UA (see below)	Paris Moschovakos, Robert Reed	CERN, University of the Witwatersrand	Web page
BCP	ATCA	Barrel Calorimeter Processor - ATCA-based front-end interface	Prototyping	Stephen Goadhouse, Nikitas Loukas	University of Virginia, University of Notre Dame	BCP V1 Twiki
AtcaOpcUa	Slow control	OPC UA server for xTCA shelf managers	In production	Paris Moschovakos	CERN	link
fwAtca	Slow control	Framework component for AtcaOpcUa integration in WinCC OA	In production	Paris Moschovakos	CERN	link
fwAtcaFsm	Slow control	Framework component for AtcaOpcUa integration in ATLAS FSM	In production	Paris Moschovakos	CERN	link

Other information

• Access to PICMG standards (for people at CERN)
• MTCA.4 worshop at DESY (11 & 12 December 2012). The presentations are available here
• MTCA.4 for Industry and Research. A DESY / Helmhotz activity
• Download: Pinout for JTAG Switch Module

Company presentations

Elma, 14.2.2013

• CERN_ATCA_Presentation_130214.ppt:
• CERN_MicroTCA_System_architecture_1302014.ppt:
• CERN_MTCA_presentation.ppt:

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