• DocumentCode
    1752360
  • Title

    Transputer to PCI bus link module with one million programmable logic gates

  • Author

    Dhawan, S. ; Grollman, D. ; Xu, S.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Phys., Yale Univ., New Haven, CT, USA
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    2000
  • fDate
    2000
  • Abstract
    We are developing a module to take data from 16 Transputer links and take this to a PCI bus in a PC. The input data is bit serial at 20 Mbit/sec on each link. We assemble these into bytes and into 32 bit words. This is stored in a dual port SRAM till a complete event is in memory. The readout controller does formatting, checking etc. It takes a million gates to perform all the functions. This board handles steady flow of data at 30 Mbytes/sec without any loss. The TP data is sent to a PCI bus at PCI bus speeds. Then the data is shipped to a farm of 20-1 GHz Intel commodity machines using Gigabit Ethernet
  • Keywords
    field programmable gate arrays; high energy physics instrumentation computing; microcomputer applications; 20 Mbit/s; Gigabit Ethernet; Intel commodity machines; PCI bus speeds; dual port SRAM; programmable logic gates; readout controller; transputer to PCI bus link module; Assembly; Ethernet networks; Logic gates; Physics; Programmable logic arrays; Programmable logic devices; Random access memory;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2000 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Lyon
  • ISSN
    1082-3654
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-6503-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/NSSMIC.2000.949917
  • Filename
    949917