Speaker
Nadeem Shehzad
(DESY Hamburg)
Description
The MicroTCA.4 crate standard provides a powerful electronic platform for
digital and analogue signal processing. Besides excellent hardware
modularity,
it is the software reliability and flexibility as well as the easy integration
into existing software infrastructures that will drive the widespread
adoption of the standard.
The DESY MicroTCA.4 User Tool Kit (MTCA4U) is a collection of C++ libraries
which facilitate the development of control applications. The
device access library allows convenient access to hardware with an extensible
register based interface. Starting from PCI Express, which is used inside a
MicroTCA.4 crate, the introduction of new, network based protocols extends
its reach beyond a single crate and even MircoTCA itself.
Features like register name mapping and automatic type conversion
provide a level of abstraction which makes the software robust against firmware
and even hardware changes. Bindings to widely used scripting tools like
Matlab and Python as well as
a graphical user interface complete the protfolio needed
for fast prototyping and firmware development.
We give an update on the project status and present new features which have
recently been introduced or are currently being implemented.
Authors
Martin Killenberg
(DESY Hamburg)
Nadeem Shehzad
(DESY Hamburg)
Co-authors
Adam Piotrowski
(Fast Logic FastLogic Sp. z o.o., Lodz, Poland)
Geogin Varghese
(DESY, Hamburg)
Dr
Martin Hierholzer
(DESY Hamburg)
Michele Viti
(DESY Hamburg)
