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ATLAS Slides
Report number	ATL-INDET-SLIDE-2012-510
Title	Testing and firmware development for the ATLAS IBL BOC prototype
Author(s)	Wensing, M (University of Wuppertal) ; Flick, T (University of Wuppertal) ; Mättig, P (University of Wuppertal) ; Kugel, A (University of Heidelberg) ; Schroer, N (University of Heidelberg) ; Krieger, N (University of Göttingen) ; Grosse-Knetter, J (University of Göttingen) ; Gabrielli, A (INFN Bologna) ; Polini, A (INFN Bologna) ; Falchieri, D (INFN Bologna) ; Travaglini, R (INFN Bologna) ; Heim, T (CERN) ; Dopke, J (CERN)
Corporate author(s)	The ATLAS collaboration
Submitted to	Topical Workshop on Electronics for Particle Physics, Oxford, UK, 17 - 21 Sep 2012
Submitted by	marius.wensing@cern.ch on 07 Sep 2012
Subject category	Detectors and Experimental Techniques
Accelerator/Facility, Experiment	CERN LHC ; ATLAS
Free keywords	IBL ; Optical detector readout ; Data acquisition
Abstract	For the coming upgrade of the ATLAS pixel detector at CERN a redesign of the current data readout is necessary. To communicate with the additional 448 front-end chips assembled in the Insertable B-Layer (IBL) new FPGA readout cards consisting of a Back of Crate card (BOC) and a Read Out Driver (ROD) have been developed. This paper will describe the firmware and hardware development of the new BOC prototype. Firmware tests, like electrical and optical loopback and communication tests with the new IBL front-end modules and the ROD will also be presented in the paper.