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HK: Fachverband Physik der Hadronen und Kerne

HK 20: Instrumentierung IV

HK 20.6: Talk

Tuesday, March 22, 2011, 15:30–15:45, HS1

The Universal Read-Out Controler for CBM at FAIR — •Sebastian Manz, Norbert Abel, and Jano Gebelein — Kirchhoff-Institut für Physik, Heidelberg, Germany

Since 2007 we design and develop the firmware for the read-out controller (ROC) for data acquisition of the CBM detector at FAIR. While our first implementation solely focused on the nXYTER chip, today we are also designing and implementing readout logic for the GET4 chip which is supposed to be part of the time of flight (TOF) detector.

Furthermore, we fully support both Ethernet and Optical transport as two transparent solutions. This addresses the different requirements of a laboratory setup and the final detector setup respectively.

The usage of a strict modularization of the Read Out Controller firmware enables us to provide an Universal ROC where front-end specific logic and transport logic can be combined in a very flexible way.

Fault tolerance techniques are only required for some of those modules and hence are only implemented there.