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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2000 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Lyon
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6503-8
DOI :
10.1109/NSSMIC.2000.949917
