ICALEPCS2017 - List of Authors (Punch, M.)

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TUPHA090	TiCkS: A Flexible White-Rabbit Based Time-Stamping Board	622
	C. Champion, S. Colonges, R. Oger, M. Punch Laboratoire APC, Paris, France Y. Moudden CEA/DRF/IRFU, Gif-sur-Yvette, France M. Punch Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden
	We have developed the TiCkS board based on the White Rabbit (WR) SPEC node, to provide ns-precision time-stamps (TSs) of input signals (e.g., triggers from a connected device) and transmission of these TSs to a central collection point. TiCkS was developed within the specifications of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) as one of the candidate TS nodes, with a small form-factor allowing its use in any CTA camera. The essential part of this development concerns the firmware in its Spartan-6 FPGA, with the addition of: 1) a 1ns-precision TDC for the TSs; 2) a UDP stack to transmit TSs and auxiliary information over the WR fibre, and to receive configuration & slow control commands over the same fibre. It also provides a 1-PPS and other clock signals to the connected device, from which it can receive auxiliary event-type information over an SPI link. A version of TiCkS with an FMC connector will be made available in the WR OpenHardware repository, so allowing the use of a mezzanine card with varied formats of input/output connectors, providing a cheap, flexible, and reliable solution for ns-precision time-stamping of trigger signals up to 200 kHz, for use in other experiments.
	Poster TUPHA090 [4.610 MB]
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TiCkS: A Flexible White-Rabbit Based Time-Stamping Board

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C. Champion, S. Colonges, R. Oger, M. Punch
Laboratoire APC, Paris, France
Y. Moudden
CEA/DRF/IRFU, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
M. Punch
Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden

We have developed the TiCkS board based on the White Rabbit (WR) SPEC node, to provide ns-precision time-stamps (TSs) of input signals (e.g., triggers from a connected device) and transmission of these TSs to a central collection point. TiCkS was developed within the specifications of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) as one of the candidate TS nodes, with a small form-factor allowing its use in any CTA camera. The essential part of this development concerns the firmware in its Spartan-6 FPGA, with the addition of: 1) a 1ns-precision TDC for the TSs; 2) a UDP stack to transmit TSs and auxiliary information over the WR fibre, and to receive configuration & slow control commands over the same fibre. It also provides a 1-PPS and other clock signals to the connected device, from which it can receive auxiliary event-type information over an SPI link. A version of TiCkS with an FMC connector will be made available in the WR OpenHardware repository, so allowing the use of a mezzanine card with varied formats of input/output connectors, providing a cheap, flexible, and reliable solution for ns-precision time-stamping of trigger signals up to 200 kHz, for use in other experiments.

Poster TUPHA090 [4.610 MB]

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reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2017-TUPHA090

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