Engineering & Instrumentation Department, ESDG, Rob Halsall, 24th February 2005CFI/Confidential CFI - Opto DAQ - Status 24th February 2005

Engineering & Instrumentation Department, ESDG, Rob Halsall, 24th February 2005CFI/Confidential Gigabit Ethernet Network IP Core –We now have the production release of the core –Significantly upgraded including changes to API –Testing completed and now in use –Multi-project license - purchased

Engineering & Instrumentation Department, ESDG, Rob Halsall, 24th February 2005CFI/Confidential Gigabit Ethernet - Manufacturer Test results FPGA - FPGAFlat out PC - PC7-800 Mbit/s FPGA - PCWindows500 Mbit/s LINUX600 Mbit/s * results include checking data FPGA - PC transfer has worse performance for technical reasons –This can be improved... All results with higher performance network card than we are using

Engineering & Instrumentation Department, ESDG, Rob Halsall, 24th February 2005CFI/Confidential Gigabit Ethernet - My Test results FPGA - PC/Windows Only R&W streamingLoop back 20 M Byte/s Read streaming26 M Byte/s RDMA12 M Byte/s Need to repeat tests with better network card Higher performance cards have been purchased

Engineering & Instrumentation Department, ESDG, Rob Halsall, 24th February 2005CFI/Confidential Software Histogramming - Tests Internal to PCAlgorithm 182 M Words/s Algorithm 237 M Words/s Algorithm 342 M Words/s Algorithm 4427 M Words/s FPGA -> PC5.6 M Words/s Can be improved - probably to 20 M Word/s Intel 3.2GHz P4 extreme with 2GB Memory 32 bit words, 12 bit Frame, 20 bit Pseudo Random Data 100 M Pixel Address list, 128 M Word Histogram Memory

Engineering & Instrumentation Department, ESDG, Rob Halsall, 24th February 2005CFI/Confidential Network Software Network core API –UNIX based C & library -> windows API C++ & DLL based –LINUX version also available Matlab –MAPS integrating new code is in progress…some difficulties integrating DLL C –Test programs implemented in C++ Labview –Need to look into integrating the DLL However…

Engineering & Instrumentation Department, ESDG, Rob Halsall, 24th February 2005CFI/Confidential Network Software User application can be Matlab, Labview, C, C++,…. Server application can perform high performance functions such as histogramming Server & user applications can run on same machine Development of a basic server application is in progress with Matlab as the user application Server App FPGA User App Ethernet fibre channel usb2 UDP TCP/IP

Engineering & Instrumentation Department, ESDG, Rob Halsall, 24th February 2005CFI/Confidential 10 Gigabit Ethernet Progress in acquiring 10G development board –Visited Xilinx UK rocket Labs 26th November –Expect to loan a 10G Development board from Xilinx mid Feb In progress –Procure 2 Off 10G line cards - ordered –Procure 2 Off High End PCs - ordered –Arrange evaluation license for 10G Ethernet MAC –Write Test Software PCs -> 2 x 3.2GHz Xeon, PCI-X 133, 4GByte RAM (32G max)

Engineering & Instrumentation Department, ESDG, Rob Halsall, 24th February 2005CFI/Confidential Clock & Trigger distribution No work done on this as yet The new Memec P30 should make this much easier to do due to the –extensive use of SFP optical modules –extensive use of external Programmable Clock PLLs & SMA connectors

Engineering & Instrumentation Department, ESDG, Rob Halsall, 24th February 2005CFI/Confidential Data Processing & Visualisation No work done on this yet 1 Week Xilinx Training EDK & DSP from December 13th - completed Visualisation direct from FPGA will require a new dev board equipped with a VGA/DVI interface

Engineering & Instrumentation Department, ESDG, Rob Halsall, 24th February 2005CFI/Confidential MAPS/P30 Dev Board

Engineering & Instrumentation Department, ESDG, Rob Halsall, 24th February 2005CFI/Confidential Project Management The STP plan in project spec is end loaded I expect to use the remaining funding in a 4 month block of effort