IBIC2022 - List of Authors (Voy, D.C.)

Paper	Title	Page
WEP40	A Modern Ethernet Data Acquisition Architecture for Fermilab Beam Instrumentation	500
	R.R. Santucci, J.S. Diamond, N. Eddy, A. Semenov, D.C. Voy Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
	The Fermilab Accelerator Division, Instrumentation Department is adopting an open-source framework to replace our embedded VME-based data acquisition systems. Utilizing an iterative methodology, we first moved to embedded Linux, removing the need for VxWorks. Next, we adopted Ethernet on each data acquisition module eliminating the need for the VME backplane in addition to communicating with a rack mount server. Development of DDCP (Distributed Data Communications Protocol), allowed for an abstraction between the firmware and software layers. Each data acquisition module was adapted to read out using 1GbE and aggregated at a switch which up linked to a 10GbE network. Current development includes scaling the system to aggregate more modules, to increase bandwidth to support multiple systems and to adopt MicroTCA as a crate technology. The architecture was utilized on various beamlines around the Fermilab complex including PIP2IT, FAST/IOTA and the Muon Delivery Ring. In summary, we were able to develop a data acquisition framework which incrementally replaces VxWorks & VME hardware as well as increases our total bandwidth to 10Gbit/s using off the shelf Ethernet technology.
	Poster WEP40 [0.738 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-IBIC2022-WEP40
About •	Received ※ 08 September 2022 — Revised ※ 10 September 2022 — Accepted ※ 12 September 2022 — Issue date ※ 04 October 2022
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A Modern Ethernet Data Acquisition Architecture for Fermilab Beam Instrumentation

500

R.R. Santucci, J.S. Diamond, N. Eddy, A. Semenov, D.C. Voy
Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA

The Fermilab Accelerator Division, Instrumentation Department is adopting an open-source framework to replace our embedded VME-based data acquisition systems. Utilizing an iterative methodology, we first moved to embedded Linux, removing the need for VxWorks. Next, we adopted Ethernet on each data acquisition module eliminating the need for the VME backplane in addition to communicating with a rack mount server. Development of DDCP (Distributed Data Communications Protocol), allowed for an abstraction between the firmware and software layers. Each data acquisition module was adapted to read out using 1GbE and aggregated at a switch which up linked to a 10GbE network. Current development includes scaling the system to aggregate more modules, to increase bandwidth to support multiple systems and to adopt MicroTCA as a crate technology. The architecture was utilized on various beamlines around the Fermilab complex including PIP2IT, FAST/IOTA and the Muon Delivery Ring. In summary, we were able to develop a data acquisition framework which incrementally replaces VxWorks & VME hardware as well as increases our total bandwidth to 10Gbit/s using off the shelf Ethernet technology.

Poster WEP40 [0.738 MB]

DOI •

reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-IBIC2022-WEP40

About •

Received ※ 08 September 2022 — Revised ※ 10 September 2022 — Accepted ※ 12 September 2022 — Issue date ※ 04 October 2022

Cite •

reference for this paper using ※ BibTeX, ※ LaTeX, ※ Text/Word, ※ RIS, ※ EndNote (xml)