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Title: FELIX: a PCIe based high-throughput approach for interfacing front-end and trigger electronics in the ATLAS Upgrade framework

Journal Article · · Journal of Instrumentation
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  1. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
  2. Univ of California, Irvine, CA (United States)
  3. Univ. of Amsterdam (Netherlands). Nikhef National Inst. for Subatomic Physics
  4. Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
  5. Radboud Univ., Nijmegen (Netherlands)
  6. European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva (Switzerland)
  7. Weizmann Inst. of Science, Rehovot (Israel). Dept. of Particle Physics
  8. Univ. of London (United Kingdom). Royal Holloway
  9. European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva (Switzerland); Univ. of Paderborn (Germany). Dept. of Computer Science
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The ATLAS Phase-I upgrade (2019) requires a Trigger and Data Acquisition (TDAQ) system able to trigger and record data from up to three times the nominal LHC instantaneous luminosity. Furthermore, the Front-End LInk eXchange (FELIX) system provides an infrastructure to achieve this in a scalable, detector agnostic and easily upgradeable way. It is a PC-based gateway, interfacing custom radiation tolerant optical links from front-end electronics, via PCIe Gen3 cards, to a commodity switched Ethernet or InfiniBand network. FELIX enables reducing custom electronics in favour of software running on commercial servers. Here, the FELIX system, the design of the PCIe prototype card and the integration test results are presented.

Research Organization:
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0012704
OSTI ID:
1392229
Report Number(s):
BNL-114236-2017-JA
Journal Information:
Journal of Instrumentation, Vol. 11, Issue 12; ISSN 1748-0221
Publisher:
Institute of Physics (IOP)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 31 works
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