SCU2 (Release R1)

The SCU (Scalable Control Unit) is the standard front-end controller used by the CSCO group based on an ArriaII FPGA. It can be White-Rabbit enabled using a WREX1 add-on board. I/O are implemented using a mezzanine board. More information is available here.

Configuration

• Release Compatibility: R1
• Date: 1 November 2013
• Hardware:
  • SCU carrier board
  • COM Express CPU
  • WREX1 mezzanine board
• I/O SCU
  • MUX: LEMO1..2 and ULED1..2 are configured via a MUX of the GSI_GPIO_32 Wishbone device
  • TLU
    • LEMO1..2: TLU trigger0..1 (depends on configuration of MUX)
    • eca_gpio0..2: TLU trigger2..4
  • ECA
    • LEMO1..2: ECA channel0 -> eca_gpio0..1 (depends on configuration of MUX)
    • ULED1..2: ECA channel0 -> eca_gpio2..3 (depends on configuration of MUX)
    • Wishbone master: ECA channel1
• Gateware and Firmware
  • TLU
    • triggers/fifos: 5
    • fifo depth: 10
  • ECA
    • channels: 2
    • condition table size: 128
    • action queue length: 256
  • Images
    • missing: remote flash format
    • missing: native format
  • Info

    eb-info dev/wbm0: ...

• Documentation
  • scu_control.vhd: top file
• Issues
  • ...

Hardware

Figure: LEMO and LEDs on SCU carrier board

-- DietrichBeck - 01 Nov 2013