DESY, Hamburg, Germany
Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Warsaw University of Technology, Institute of Electronic Systems, Warsaw, Poland
TUL-DMCS, Łódź, Poland
Almost all accelerator-related diagnostic and steering systems require front-end electronic hardware and software for digitizing, synchronization, processing, controlling, and providing access to the control system. Increasingly high demands on resolution, bandwidth, stability, redundancy, low latency, real-time processing and distribution create the need for new technologies in order to fulfill those demands. For this reason, at the European XFEL and FLASH, the new, μTCA industry standard will be deployed. Over the last few years, significant achievements have been made in μTCA developments in collaboration with other research institutes and industry. In this paper, we give an overview of the required components of a typical μTCA system for diagnostics applications. The FLASH bunch arrival-time monitor will be used as an example.
