Caribou Developers Meeting

Tuesday 15 Oct 2024, 16:00 → 17:30 Europe/Zurich

Younes Otarid (CERN)

16:00 → 16:10 General News

Speaker: Younes Otarid (CERN)

16:10 → 16:35 Hardware

Speakers: Eric Buschmann (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)), Shaochun Tang (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)), Tomas Vanat (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE)), Younes Otarid (CERN)

Eric:

• Received feedback on test-board design
  • Mostly cosmetics 
  • Some capacitors polarity, messy symbols, outdated components
• Currently working on implementation of the changes
• Find a solution for version control of project

 

Ryan:

• Replace current mirror by a charge pump 
• Want to go through v2.0 requirements from Max
  • Temperarure range requirements
  • Level shifters terminated to 50 Ohm
  • SMA connector debug pins
  • SFP slot
  • Gigabit Ethernet
  • Display port
  • RJ45 trigger
  • External switch for high voltage supply
  • Power switches and fully contrable sequencing on all power rails
  • Clock synchronization between multiple Caribou boards

16:35 → 17:00 Firmware

Speakers: Eric Buschmann (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)), Tomas Vanat (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE)), Younes Otarid (CERN)

17:00 → 17:25 Software - OS

Speakers: Eric Buschmann (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)), Mathieu Benoit (Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)), Simon Spannagel (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE)), Younes Otarid (CERN)

Younes:

• Looking into issues observed by Simon when building a petalinux image for ZC706 board
• Need other users/developpers to try and build an image as well in order to figure out if it is a systematic issue 

17:25 → 17:30 AOB