| ATLAS Note | |
| Report number | ATL-DAQ-PROC-2016-009 |
| Title | FELIX: The New Approach for Interfacing to Front-end Electronics for the ATLAS Experiment |
| Author(s) |
Narevicius, Julia (Department of Particle Physics, The Weizmann Institute of Science) ; Anderson, John Thomas (Argonne National Laboratory) ; Borga, Andrea (FOM - Institute SAF Nikhef and University of Amsterdam/Nikhef) ; Boterenbrood, Hendrik (FOM - Institute SAF Nikhef and University of Amsterdam/Nikhef) ; Chen, Hucheng (Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)) ; Chen, Kai (Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)) ; Drake, Gary (Argonne National Laboratory) ; Donszelmann, Mark (Radboud University Nijmegen and NIKHEF) ; Francis, David (CERN) ; Gorini, Benedetto (CERN) ; Guest, Daniel (University of California, Irvine) ; Lanni, Francesco (Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)) ; Lehmann Miotto, Giovanna (CERN) ; Levinson, Lorne (Department of Particle Physics, The Weizmann Institute of Science) ; Roich, Alexander (Department of Particle Physics, The Weizmann Institute of Science) ; Schreuder, Frans Philip (FOM - Institute SAF Nikhef and University of Amsterdam/Nikhef) ; Schumacher, J\"orn (CERN) ; Vandelli, Wainer (CERN) ; Zhang, Jinlong (Argonne National Laboratory) |
| Corporate Author(s) | The ATLAS collaboration |
| Publication | 2016 |
| Imprint | 31 May 2016 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| In: | 20th IEEE-NPSS Real Time Conference, Padua, Italy, 5 - 10 Jun 2016 |
| DOI | 10.1109/RTC.2016.7543142 |
| Subject category | Particle Physics - Experiment |
| Accelerator/Facility, Experiment | CERN LHC ; ATLAS |
| Free keywords | DAQ GBT ROD ROS COTS PCIe FPGA E-link |
| Abstract | From the ATLAS Phase-I upgrade and onward, new or upgraded detectors and trigger systems will be interfaced to the data acquisition, detector control and timing (TTC) systems by the Front-End Link eXchange (FELIX). FELIX is the core of the new ATLAS Trigger/DAQ architecture. Functioning as a router between custom serial links and a commodity network, FELIX is implemented by server PCs with commodity network interfaces and PCIe cards with large FPGAs and many high speed serial fiber transceivers. By separating data transport from data manipulation, the latter can be done by software in commodity servers attached to the network. Replacing traditional point-to-point links between Front-end components and the DAQ system by a switched network, FELIX provides scaling, flexibility uniformity and upgradability and reduces the diversity of custom hardware solutions in favour of software. |
| Copyright/License | Preprint: (License: CC-BY-4.0) |
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