Demonstrating TTC-PON Robustness and Flexibility

Eduardo Brandao De Souza Mendes, Sophie Baron, Csaba Soos, Logan Saint-Germain, Francois Vasey
2018 Proceedings of Topical Workshop on Electronics for Particle Physics — PoS(TWEPP-17)   unpublished
In 2016, a TTC-PON (Timing, Trigger and Control system based on Passive Optical Networks) demonstrator was presented at TWEPP as an alternative to replace the TTC system, currently responsible for delivering timing, trigger and control commands in the LHC experiments. Towards a deployment foreseen for ALICE phase-1 upgrade, the system has been consolidated through flexible software implementation providing full configuration, complete calibration and extended monitoring and diagnostic tools. A
more » ... ew demonstrator setup was built with various FPGA platforms to test the system with an increased number of nodes and under different environmental conditions. This paper focuses on the TTC-PON system design with a discussion on its features and scaled-up tests.
doi:10.22323/1.313.0124 fatcat:4p34xfqsizerxcbv774cyjibwq