First performance results of the ALICE TPC Readout Control Unit 2

C. Zhao; J. Alme; T. Alt; H. Appelshäuser; L. Bratrud; A. Castro; F. Costa; E. David; T. Gunji; S. Kirsch; T. Kiss; R. Langøy; J. Lien; C. Lippmann; A. Oskarsson; A. Ur Rehman; K. Røed; D. Röhrich; Y. Sekiguchi; M. Stuart; K. Ullaland; A. Velure; S. Yang; L. Österman

doi:10.1088/1748-0221/11/01/C01024

First performance results of the ALICE TPC Readout Control Unit 2

C. Zhao, J. Alme, T. Alt, H. Appelshäuser, L. Bratrud, A. Castro, F. Costa, E. David, T. Gunji, S. Kirsch, T. Kiss, R. Langøy, J. Lien, C. Lippmann, A. Oskarsson, A. Ur Rehman, K. Røed, D. Röhrich, Y. Sekiguchi, M. StuartK. Ullaland, A. Velure, S. Yang, L. Österman

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This paper presents the first performance results of the ALICE TPC Readout Control Unit 2 (RCU2). With the upgraded hardware typology and the new readout scheme in FPGA design, the RCU2 is designed to achieve twice the readout speed of the present Readout Control Unit. Design choices such as using the flash-based Microsemi Smartfusion2 FPGA and applying mitigation techniques in interfaces and FPGA design ensure a high degree of radiation tolerance. This paper presents the system level irradiation test results as well as the first commissioning results of the RCU2. Furthermore, it will be concluded with a discussion of the planned updates in firmware.

Original language	English
Article number	C01024
Journal	Journal of Instrumentation
Volume	11
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/11/01/C01024
Publication status	Published - 2016

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Accelerator Physics and Instrumentation

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Data acquisition concepts
Front-end electronics for detector readout
Radiation-hard electronics
Time projection Chambers (TPC)

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Zhao, C., Alme, J., Alt, T., Appelshäuser, H., Bratrud, L., Castro, A., Costa, F., David, E., Gunji, T., Kirsch, S., Kiss, T., Langøy, R., Lien, J., Lippmann, C., Oskarsson, A., Rehman, A. U., Røed, K., Röhrich, D., Sekiguchi, Y., ... Österman, L. (2016). First performance results of the ALICE TPC Readout Control Unit 2. Journal of Instrumentation, 11(1), Article C01024. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/11/01/C01024

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