A gigabit link based PCI to VME Interface

by Dr. Matthias Kirsch (Struck)

Thursday 28 Nov 2002, 09:00 → 10:30 Europe/Zurich

40-SS-C01 (CERN)

The SIS1100/3100 was developed by SIS co-operation with the ZEL department of the Jülich research centre with the main focus on physics-related data acquisition. A flexible FPGA based VME master/slave implementation in conjunction with a gigabit link results in a sustained block transfer speed of 80 Mbyte/s using the 2eVME protocol described in the VME64x specification. The maximum link distance of 450 metres is perfectly suited to large scale/extended systems. The front panel I/O option, up to 512MB SDRAM and a DSP option allow for the implementation of a variety of dedicated as well as generic data acquisition systems. Hard real-time performance down to the 200ns scale in combination with on board histogramming and/or data manipulation make the SIS1100/3100 a unique data acquisition tool for many lab and test beam applications. Operation of the SIS1100/3100 under both LINUX and Windows (with National Instruments CVI package) will be demonstrated in conjunction with a 2eVME capable SIS3300 digitizer as VMEbus slave.