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MicroTCA.4: a New Standard for Diagnostics and Controls | |
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| MTCA.4 was released in Oct 2011 as a new standard based on MicroTCA with extensions for rear IO and precision timing. The MTCA.4 standard was driven by several accelerator labs together with industrial partners within the PICMG. It provides a higher degree of modularization compared to other crate systems. Complex designs with FPGA interfaces to PCIe on the front side of a crate can be interfaced by application specific signal conditioning or processing on the rear side. Even high performance RF front-ends could be implemented on a rear module. And the new standard defines precision clock and trigger distribution within a shelf. Furthermore, full remote management on the crate and slot level is available. Diagnostic electronics require a clean environment for sensitive signal processing and high speed data transfers to cope with increasing ADC sampling rates and fast feedbacks. High quality and high performance of analog signal processing was recently demonstrated. The highlights of the new MTCA.4 standard as well as experience and results with the first systems in the field will be described. | ||