Caribou Developers Meeting

Tuesday Oct 14, 2025, 4:00 PM → 5:30 PM Europe/Zurich

Younes Otarid (CERN)

4:00 PM → 4:10 PM General News

Speaker: Younes Otarid (CERN)

4:10 PM → 4:35 PM Hardware

Speakers: Eric Buschmann (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)), Ryan St-Jean (Carleton University (CA)), Shaochun Tang (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)), Tomas Vanat (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE)), Younes Otarid (CERN)

Eric:

• CPAD conference
• Other priorities at the moment
• Continuing test of the CaR board, in particular current sources

 

Changbum:

• Continuing discussion on test board testing with Eric

4:35 PM → 5:00 PM Firmware

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

Younes:

• Progressing with the support of the AD9249 on the UltraScale+ platform
  • Finished the design and verification of the 8b-to-14b gearbox, the bit clock aligner and the frame aligner blocks
  • Currently working on integrating all of them in a top level file
  • Next steps, test the design with injected ILAs

 

Ilias:

• Finalized power supply testing. No scan of the entire current range
• Working on the GTX line testing using PRBS , Eye Scan and BER features

 

5:00 PM → 5:25 PM 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)

5:25 PM → 5:30 PM AOB