A Fully Bidirectional Optical Network With Latency Monitoring Capability for the Distribution of Timing-Trigger and Control Signals in High-Energy Physics Experiments

Author

Papakonstantinou, Ioannis ; Soos, Csaba ; Papadopoulos, Spyridon ; Détraz, Stéphane ; Sigaud, Christophe ; Stejskal, Pavel ; Storey, Sarah ; Troska, Jan ; Vasey, François ; Darwazeh, Izzat

Author_Institution

PH Dept., CERN-Eur. Organ ization for Nucl. Res., Geneva, Switzerland

Volume

58

Issue

4

fYear

2011

Firstpage

1628

Lastpage

1640

Abstract

The present paper discusses recent advances on a Passive Optical Network inspired Timing-Trigger and Control scheme for the future upgrade of the TTC system installed in the LHC experiments´ and more specifically the currently known as TTCex to TTCrx link. The timing PON is implemented with commercially available FPGAs and 1-Gigabit Ethernet PON transceivers and provides a fixed latency gigabit downlink that can carry level-1 trigger accept decisions and commands as well as an upstream link for feedback from the front-end electronics.

Keywords

data communication; field programmable gate arrays; local area networks; nuclear electronics; optical transceivers; passive optical networks; timing circuits; Ethernet PON transceivers; FPGA; LHC experiments; TTC system upgrade; TTCex to TTCrx link; control signal distribution; front end electronics feedback; fully bidirectional optical network; high energy physics experiments; latency monitoring capability; passive optical network; timing PON; timing trigger distribution; trigger accept decisions; Field programmable gate arrays; Optical attenuators; Optical buffering; Optical feedback; Optical network units; Passive optical networks; Field-programmable gate arrays and gigabit links; fixed and low latency serial links; passive optical networks in high energy physics experiments; timing trigger and control applications;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TNS.2011.2154364

Filename

5876285