1. AFE II Status
First board under test!!

2. First AFE II Prototype Basic electrical tests Functional tests begun
Everything looks good so far except for a few components that were installed improperly
Functional tests begun
Downloads –OK
On-board processor –OK
Coming Alive!
First Problem discovered
Will require “green” wire fix
3 boards have been loaded
18 additional boards in the queue
Waiting for first results before giving the stuffing house the go-ahead to stuff the remaining boards

3. AFE II(t) operation in MICE

4. AFEII for MICE
Recall:
AFEs mount on ether side of the VLPC cass, with fibers going to the VLPCs between them.
AFE has 8 identical modules
Each module reads 64ch of VLPCs
AFEs functions: fast discr (1bit/ch) send to L1 trigger system. If the event looks interesting (to the L1 system!), the AFE can “remember” Q from ~4uS earlier and digitize it for readout
Much slower than the discriminators!

5. AFEII for MICE Digital readout vs. Analog readout
AFEII two readout paths
Digital: Discriminators go over LVDS links
More details later
Analog: Zero suppressed data from ADCs (addr/data pairs) over a custom parallel link (a.k.a. gray cable)

6. AFEII for MICE AFEII designed for Tevatron not MICE!
AFEII two readout paths:
L1: 512 discriminator bits/board/132ns
L2: (only after an “L1 accept”) reads out ADC 8bits/ch x 512ch (zero supressed)
AFEII designed for ~10Khz L1 accept rate
at ~5% deadtime => 10uS per event time budget

7. AFEII for MICE Fiber tracker: why analog at all? Better quality data
ADCs data can be corrected for common mode
ADCs can correct for ch-to-ch variation
But watch out for zero supression!
For Dzero, can use to improve resolution

8. AFEII for MICE Digital readout details:
LVDS here means a specific chip set from TI
SN65LVDS95 53Mhz)
20 bits + 1 “frame” bit sent over 4 UTP pairs (3 signal + 53 * 7 = 371 Mhz
Frame bit sent once every 7 * 18.8ns = 132ns
4 LVDS links/board = 1/pair of modules (10bits per module)
Data rate = 53Mhz * 20 * 4 = 4.24 Gbps

9. AFEII for MICE Analog readout details: Digitization:
Custom bi-directional parallel link between the Sequencer and the AFE
8 data bits + data valid per AFE
Max data rate = 53 * 8 = 424 Mbps
Digitization:
2 dual ADCs/64 ch module=16 ch/ADC
ADC max 10Mhz => 16 * 100ns = 1.6uS
Tot: ~2us + ~40ns / hit ch= ~21us max

10. AFEII for MICE Mice beam structure
~600 muons in 850 uS
Long enough between pulses =  for DAQ
Analog readout: depends on occupancy
If FULL readout, can do about ~40 during spill
Digital readout: can keep up
Still not 100% live time: need resets us

11. AFEII for MICE Mice readout Analog readout for MICE
Two options:
1. the full Dzero system
-Sequncer (SEQ) and sequencer controller (SEQC) (and crate! 9U custom backplane…)
- VME Receiver Buffer (VRB) and VRB controller (VRBC) (and another 9U crate!)
- must talk to SEQ/SEQC/VRB/VRBC so need 1553 interface as well

12. AFEII for MICE Mice readout (cont.) Analog readout for MICE
Two options:
2. the StandAlone Sequencer (SASeq)
+used in the MICE cosmic test
-rather slow…

13. AFEII for MICE Analog readout for MICE + tons of experience from Dzero
+ AFEII designed to work this way
+ know how to trigger, sync board to board, etc.
need time to digitize!
~ maybe beam structure can be chosen to make this mode work better?
600mu/1ms => 600KHz L1 accept rate!

14. AFEII for MICE Mice readout Digital readout for MICE + fast
+ very simple
- need a receiver… more detail below
- no detailed analog info
~ not for use with AFEII-t (not a problem!)

15. AFEII for MICE Digital readout for MICE Need a new board! But
Receive LVDS, store into FIFO, interface to VME
But
How to get clock to boards?
How to get trigger to board?
Can still use the gray cable! (w/SASeq)

16. AFEII for MICE Need new board Very simple 6U VME
Should be easy to design and build!
Cost=$1K/board
1 board/AFE
FPGA
LVDS
VME I/F
SRAM

17. AFEII for MICE Hybrid option
On the AFEII, there is a path from FPGA to LVDS
Can readout analog information via LVDS
Still need the digitize time =~1.6 to 2 us
But can readout as fast as digitize

18. AFEII for MICE summary Analog readout Digital readout Hybrid readout
Maybe 40 events/pulse (if 850uS pulse!)
Digital readout
Trade live time vs. overlaps (2K events/pulse)
Min integration window ~50ns, max=anything!
Reset time ~40ns
Need to design and build a new board!
Not really an option for MICE since MICE will use AFE IIt
Time stamp for hits – TAC – need analog output
Hybrid readout
ADC thru LVDS (400 events/pulse)
Still need the new board!

19. AFE II for MICE D0 is starting work on an ADC ® LVDS interface board
This will likely work for MICE and be the preferred readout
Data rates exceeding 600 muons/sec are therefore possible with 3 Hz RF
3 Hz is appears to be doable and for DAQ considerations is preferred over 1 Hz operation