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HK: Fachverband Physik der Hadronen und Kerne

HK 50: Instrumentation 15

HK 50.5: Talk

Thursday, March 26, 2015, 15:45–16:00, M/HS1

ALICE Common Read-Out Receiver Card Status and HLT Implementation — •Heiko Engel and Udo Kebschull for the ALICE collaboration — IRI, Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt am Main

The ALICE Common Read-Out Receiver Card (C-RORC) is an FPGA based PCIe read out board with optical interfaces primaryly developed to replace the previos ALICE High-Level Trigger (HLT) and Data Acquisition (DAQ) Read-Out Receiver Cards from Run1 with a state of the art hardware platform to cope with the increased link rates and event data volume of Run2. The large scale production of the C-RORCs for Run2 has been completed in cooperation with ATLAS and the boards are installed in the productive clusters of ALICE HLT, ALICE DAQ and ATLAS TDAQ ROS. This contribution describes the hardware and firmware of the C-RORC in the ALICE HLT application and its online processing capabilities. Additionally, a high level dataflow description approach to implement hardware processing steps more efficiently is presented.