TY  - JOUR
AU  - Carrio, F.
AU  - Castillo Gimenez, V.
AU  - Ferrer, A.
AU  - Gonzalez, V.
AU  - Higon-Rodriguez, E.
AU  - Marin, C.
AU  - Moreno, P.
AU  - Sanchis, E.
AU  - Solans, C.
AU  - Valero, A.
AU  - Valls Ferrer, J. A.
PY  - 2011
DA  - 2011//
TI  - Optical Link Card Design for the Phase II Upgrade of TileCal Experiment
T2  - IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci.
JO  - IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
SP  - 1657
EP  - 1663
VL  - 58
IS  - 4
PB  - Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc
KW  - High energy physics instrumentation computing
KW  - optical-fiber communication high-speed electronics
KW  - programmable logic devices
AB  - This paper presents the design of an optical link card developed in the frame of the R&D activities for the phase 2 upgrade of the TileCal experiment. This board, that is part of the evaluation of different technologies for the final choice in the next years, is designed as a mezzanine that can work independently or be plugged in the optical multiplexer board of the TileCal backend electronics. It includes two SNAP 12 optical connectors able to transmit and receive up to 75 Gb/s and one SFP optical connector for lower speeds and compatibility with existing hardware as the read out driver. All processing is done in a Stratix II GX field-programmable gate array (FPGA). Details are given on the hardware design, including signal and power integrity analysis, needed when working with these high data rates and on firmware development to obtain the best performance of the FPGA signal transceivers and for the use of the GBT protocol.
SN  - 0018-9499
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1109/TNS.2011.2159125
DO  - 10.1109/TNS.2011.2159125
LA  - English
N1  - WOS:000293975700037
ID  - Carrio_etal2011
ER  -