Mitigated FPGA design of multi-gigabit transceivers for application in high radiation environments of High Energy Physics experiments
| Autor: | H. S. Chen, Alessandra Camplani, M. Brusati, Mauro Citterio, Helio Takai, Matthew Cannon, Michael Wirthlin, Massimo Lazzaroni |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Triple modular redundancy
Engineering Particle physics Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors 010308 nuclear & particles physics business.industry Applied Mathematics 020208 electrical & electronic engineering Fault tolerance 02 engineering and technology Condensed Matter Physics 01 natural sciences Computer Science::Hardware Architecture Data acquisition Gigabit Robustness (computer science) 0103 physical sciences 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Electronics Hardware_ARITHMETICANDLOGICSTRUCTURES Electrical and Electronic Engineering Transceiver Field-programmable gate array business Instrumentation |
| Zdroj: | Measurement. 108:171-192 |
| ISSN: | 0263-2241 |
| Popis: | SRAM-based Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) logic devices are very attractive in applications where high data throughput is needed, such as the latest generation of High Energy Physics (HEP) experiments. FPGAs have been rarely used in such experiments because of their sensitivity to radiation. The present paper proposes a mitigation approach applied to commercial FPGA devices to meet the reliability requirements for the front-end electronics of the Liquid Argon (LAr) electromagnetic calorimeter of the ATLAS experiment, located at CERN. Particular attention will be devoted to define a proper mitigation scheme of the multi-gigabit transceivers embedded in the FPGA, which is a critical part of the LAr data acquisition chain. A demonstrator board is being developed to validate the proposed methodology. Mitigation techniques such as Triple Modular Redundancy (TMR) and scrubbing will be used to increase the robustness of the design and to maximize the fault tolerance from Single-Event Upsets (SEUs). |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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