FPGA - Based Compute Nodes for the PANDA Experiment at FAIR

Author

Kuhn, Wolfgang ; Gilardi, Camilla ; Kirschner, Daniel ; Lang, Johannes ; Lange, Soeren ; Liu, Ming ; Perez, Tiago ; Schmitt, Lars ; Jin, Dapeng ; Li, Lu ; Liu, Zhen´An ; Lu, Yunpeng ; Wang, Qiang ; Wei, Shujun ; Xu, Hao ; Zhao, Dixin ; Korcyl, Krzysztof ;

Author_Institution

JLU, Giessen

fYear

2007

fDate

April 29 2007-May 4 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

PANDA is a new universal detector for antiproton physics at the HESR facility at FAIR/GSI. The PANDA data acquisition system has to handle interaction rates of the order of 10**7 /s and data rates of several 100 Gb Is. FPGA based compute nodes with multi-Gbit/s bandwidth capability using the ATCA architecture are designed to handle tasks such as event building, feature extraction and high level trigger processing. Each board is equipped with 5 Virtex4 FX60 FPGAs. High bandwidth connectivity is provided by four Gbit Ethernet links and 8 additional optical links connected to RocketIO ports. A single ATCA crate can host up to 14 boards which are interconnected via a full mesh backplane.

Keywords

data acquisition; field programmable gate arrays; high energy physics instrumentation computing; local area networks; nuclear electronics; optical links; position sensitive particle detectors; ATCA architecture; Ethernet links; FPGA; PANDA; RocketIO ports; antiproton physics; bandwidth connectivity; data acquisition system; optical links; particle detector; trigger processing; Bandwidth; Buildings; Computer architecture; Data acquisition; Detectors; Ethernet networks; Feature extraction; Field programmable gate arrays; Optical fiber communication; Physics; Data acquisition; Field programmable gate arrays; Parallel architectures; Triggering;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Real-Time Conference, 2007 15th IEEE-NPSS

Conference_Location

Batavia, IL

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0866-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0867-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RTC.2007.4382729

Filename

4382729