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        <article-title>An FPGA based topological processor prototype for the ATLAS Level-1 trigger upgrade</article-title>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Buescher</surname>
            <given-names>V</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>
            <institution>Mainz U., Inst. Phys.</institution>
          </aff>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Degele</surname>
            <given-names>R</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>
            <institution>Mainz U., Inst. Phys.</institution>
          </aff>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Ji</surname>
            <given-names>W</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>
            <institution>Mainz U., Inst. Phys.</institution>
          </aff>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Moritz</surname>
            <given-names>S</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>
            <institution>Mainz U., Inst. Phys.</institution>
          </aff>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Reiss</surname>
            <given-names>A</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>
            <institution>Mainz U., Inst. Phys.</institution>
          </aff>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Schaefer</surname>
            <given-names>U</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>
            <institution>Mainz U., Inst. Phys.</institution>
          </aff>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Simioni</surname>
            <given-names>E</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>
            <institution>Mainz U., Inst. Phys.</institution>
          </aff>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Tapprogge</surname>
            <given-names>S</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>
            <institution>Mainz U., Inst. Phys.</institution>
          </aff>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Wenzel</surname>
            <given-names>V</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>
            <institution>Mainz U., Inst. Phys.</institution>
          </aff>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Bauss</surname>
            <given-names>B</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>
            <institution>Mainz U., Inst. Phys.</institution>
          </aff>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <pub-date pub-type="pub">
        <year>2012</year>
      </pub-date>
      <self-uri xlink:href="http://cds.cern.ch/record/1490584"/>
      <self-uri xlink:href="http://cds.cern.ch/record/1484923"/>
      <self-uri xlink:href="http://cds.cern.ch/record/1490584/files/ATL-DAQ-PROC-2012-056.pdf"/>
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    <abstract>By 2014 the LHC will collide proton bunches at 14TeV with an increased instantaneous luminosity up to 3·10³⁴cm⁻²s⁻¹. The resulting higher event rate will challenge the existing ATLAS trigger system. A reduction on the trigger rate can be achieved by selecting interesting channels based on their expected decay topology and thus reducing background. This will be achieved by introducing of a new FPGA based module in the Level-1 trigger: the Topological Processor L1Topo. With L1Topo it will be possible for the first time to concentrate detailed information from the entire calorimeters and the muon detector into a single module. L1Topo will receive a total aggregate bandwidth of 1Tb/s. The data is processed within less than 100ns, requiring high density optical I/O and high bandwidth, which is achieved by adopting state-of-the-art FPGAs with embedded multi-Gb/s transceivers and multi-Gb/s opto converters. This paper focuses on the design of the first L1Topo prototype. The L1Topo design adopts technologies that have been implemented into a previous ATCA form factor demonstrator module. The latest results on the implementation of a topological algorithm in the demonstrator module and FPGA logic utilization of the algorithm are presented. Beyond results of a measurement of the latency, induced by the demonstrator module's FPGA's integrated Multi-Gb/s transceivers, are reported.</abstract>
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