Building a 4 Tbps Downstream Tester with a Data Source Emulator

De Lucas Arruda Ramalho

REF: 978-65-5523-019-2
The evolution of Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) Multi Gigabit Transceivers (MGT) brought opportunities for data formatter and data acquisition projects in several areas. The newer FPGA families are capable of handling Gigabits per second (Gbps) I/Os implemented using high speed serial link protocols and to become the future downstream processors.

• Idioma: Português
• Editora: Editora Appris
• Data de lançamento: 2 de out. de 2020
• ISBN: 9786555230192

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COMITÊ CIENTÍFICO DA COLEÇÃO CIÊNCIAS DA COMUNICAÇÃO

To my family, mainly to my parents Luiz and Zildineti, my brother Douglas, for the love, support and trust in all moments.

Acknowledgment:

First of all, I would like to thank my father (Luiz), my mother (Zildineti), my aunt (Jane), my brother (Douglas), my sister in law (Adriana), and my nephew (João). They represent a small part of my huge family. Every time, I had a difficult time, you were there to give me support and cheer for me. I insert in the same package of contributions all my friends from my hometown. For sure, great part of the desire to return home, it is to stay closer to you all.

I would like to thank professor Aílton Akira Shinoda by being my advisor since my undergrad that was performed at Cuiabá. His advices were very important for my growing in scientific methods and also interpersonal relationship inside those collaborations that we participate nowadays. As a professional, I owe to you all opportunities I had, like to do the master’s degree, to do the PhD, to travel to US, to become a professor like you.

In the same way, I thanks to all professors I had in the PhD program at UNESP Ilha Solteira were important. Represented by professor Nobuo, that gave me advices when my mind was a little foggy. I thank the whole PhD program.

Of course, I thanks all friends I did during the program. Thanks to Cássia, Douglas, Gilvani and Rothschild representing all community of Mato Grosso students. I think we really made a difference at Ilha Solteira, and we let a good scar in the PhD program forever.

Representing the other friends, I met in Ilha, I thanks Ortega, Miller, Flavilene and Patricia to push my dedication in the work to increase or even the parties when we needed. I hope this fellowship does not end with the PhD, despite the distance.

My professionals’ abilities, and personal experience as well, were enhanced by the experiences I had during my PhD. Being a network computer guy from the middle of Brazil and to have a chance of work with instrumentation in high energy physics was only possible thanks to SPRACE group led by Prof. Sergio Novaes. I thank him as SPRACE representative that allowed me to make part of one of the most important HEP and HPC research group of Brazil.

This experience, that started at SPRACE learning about accelerators, detectors and standard model, and was transformed in an adventure for me when our group started to collaborate with Fermilab and the L1 trigger proposal. I had a chance to travel to US and to learn a lot at Fermilab with the whole AM+FPGA collaboration. So, I also thanks Ted Liu, Jamieson and Marco Trovato, that worked closer to me and represent all other Fermilab people that helped.

The contributions did at Fermilab were possible thanks to the SPRACE teams assembled at instrumentation laboratory. People like, Thiago Paiva, Mario Vaz, Vitor Finotti, André Cascadan, Rogério Iope, among others, were working closely with me to implement several aspects of the ATCA infrastructure. Thanks guys, we did a nice job.

Still talking about Fermilab, I need to thank all the Brazilian and non-Brazilian friends I made in Fermilab. You were all part of making my time away from home, and Brazil, not boring. And special thanks to O’Sheg, that reminded me to always follow the light even when our hearth tends see darkness in the problems we face. O’Sheg, during my time at Fermilab your words and support were far more important than you can imagine.

Finally, despite to be the most important, I thank God to give the opportunity to do this PhD in my life. You gave me health, despite all BBQ’s, to be in the right place, in the right moment, and with capacity to enjoy all the path you prepared for me.

PREFACE

This book describes an approach when are necessary digital systems capable of handling Gigabits per second (Gbps) I/Os using high speed serial link protocols. In general, these systems need to be reliable and synchronous between dozens of channels and boards employing Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) Multi Gigabit Transceivers (MGT).

The work comments and explains why downstream systems under development need an emulator to act as data source and to help the debugging. On other hand, the upstream require a receiver to evaluate latency, data integrity and data format. In addition, presents the Advanced Telecommunication Computing Architecture (ATCA) standard developed to provide high-speed communication interfaces for telecommunication, military and aerospace industries, being also used in high energy physics instrumentation.

Also describes a case study based on Compact Muon Solenoid/European Organization for Nuclear Research (CMS/CERN) Technical