CERN Accelerating science

ATLAS Note
Report number	ATL-INDET-PROC-2012-022
Title	Testing and firmware development for the ATLAS IBL BOC prototype
Author(s)	Wensing, M (Bergische U., Wuppertal) ; Flick, T (Bergische U., Wuppertal) ; Mättig, P (Bergische U., Wuppertal) ; Kugel, A (Heidelberg U.) ; Schroer, N (Heidelberg U.) ; Krieger, N (Gottingen U.) ; Grosse-Knetter, J (Gottingen U.) ; 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
Publication	2012
Imprint	05 Nov 2012
Number of pages	10
In:	Topical Workshop on Electronics for Particle Physics, Oxford, UK, 17 - 21 Sep 2012
Subject category	Detectors and Experimental Techniques
Accelerator/Facility, Experiment	CERN LHC ; ATLAS
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 based 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.
Copyright/License	Preprint: (License: CC-BY-4.0)