Studies on the optical readout of the ATLAS insertable b-layer : from firmware development to commissioning of the back-of-crate card / vorgelegt von Marius Wensing. Wuppertal, August 2015
Inhalt
- Introduction
- Basics of experimental particle physics
- The Large Hadron Collider and the ATLAS Detector
- The ATLAS Pixel Detector and its new fourth layer
- The Pixel Detector during Run-1
- The Insertable b-Layer
- The IBL Detector Control System
- Overview of the IBL readout system
- On-detector readout components
- Off-detector readout components
- Timing of the ATLAS Pixel Detector
- Testing and commissioning steps
- Outlook on the Layer-1 and Layer-2 readout upgrade
- Requirements for the ATLAS IBL BOC card
- Mechanical requirements
- Detector interfaces
- ROS interface
- Clock distribution
- External Interfaces
- Summary of the requirements
- Hardware of the ATLAS IBL BOC card
- Firmware development for the ATLAS IBL BOC card
- Introduction & Overview
- Design flows
- BCF firmware
- Global system interconnect and register bank
- BMF firmware loading
- Clock monitoring and control
- Microblaze processor and its software
- BMF firmware
- BMF transmitter firmware
- Overview
- Coarse delay (step I)
- BPM encoding
- Coarse delay (step II)
- Serialiser
- Fine delay
- Debugging and monitoring tools
- Simulation results of the transmitter firmware
- BMF receiver firmware
- FE-I4 emulator firmware
- BMF S-LINK firmware
- IBL BOC software library
- Production of the IBL BOC card
- IBL BOC production
- Overview of the production test
- Production test setup
- Production test steps and their results
- Optical & electrical inspection
- Firmware loading & Network configuration
- Clock test
- Loopback tests
- Optical parameters
- Backplane & S-LINK
- Production test database
- Failures detected during the production test
- Summary of the production test
- The IBL BOC card in the system test
- Introduction
- The Lab infrastructure
- Overview
- Front-end chips
- Optoboard & adapter PCB
- ROD/BOC readout hardware
- ROS PCs
- Software Infrastructure
- Scanning in the local infrastructure
- System test at CERN
- Summary of the system test
- Future readout concepts
- LHC and ATLAS upgrade plans
- The ATLAS ITk project
- Future readout architectures
- GBT and Versatile Link
- The FELIX readout concept
- PCIe studies
- Summary and Outlook
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- List of Abbreviations
- Bibliography