Design, construction, and testing of the APOLLO ATCA blades for use at the HL-LHC
Abstract The Apollo Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture (ATCA) platform is an open-source design consisting of a generic “Service Module” (SM) and a customizable “Command Module” (CM), allowing for cost-effective use in applications such as the readout of the inner tracker and the Level-1 track trigger for the CMS Phase-II upgrade at the HL-LHC. The SM integrates an intelligent IPMC, robust power entry and conditioning systems, a powerful system-on-module computer, and flexible clock and communication infrastructure. The CM is designed around two Xilinx Ultrascale+ FPGAs and high-density, high-bandwidth optical transceivers capable of 25 Gb/s. Crates of Apollo blades are currently being tested at Boston University, Cornell University, and CERN.
Authors
- Alec Duquette
- Rui Zou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0542-1264)
- J. Rohlf (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6423-9799)
- Ethan Tsai (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8697-6789)
- Serhii Cholak (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8091-4766)
- Z. Demiragli (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8521-737X)
- David Gabriel Monk (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8377-1999)
- J. Fulcher (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2801-520X)
- P. Wittich (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7401-2181)
- S. Jeon (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1208-6940)
- G. De Castro
- S. Noorudhin
- Peace Kotamnives
- Eric Shearer Hazen
- Michael Oshiro
- K. Hahn
- Siqi Yuan
- C. Strohman
- Alp Akpinar
- A. Madorsky
- D. Gastler
- Aymeric Blaizot
Institutions
- Boston University (US)
- Northwestern University (US)
- Northeastern University (US)
- Cornell University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Instrumentation
- Published
- 2025-04-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/20/04/c04001
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Particle accelerators and beam dynamics
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 9.99