Developing a new beam position monitor electronics for HIPA, The PSI High Intensity Proton Accelerator

The High Intensity Proton Accelerator (HIPA) at PSI presently has an RF beam position monitor (BPM) system based on 20 year old Xilinx Virtex-2 Pro Systems-on-Chip (SoC), using application-specific integrated circuits (ASICS) for direct digital downconverters. For the planned upgrade of the electronics as well as for new HIPA projects, we started the development of a new HIPA BPM electronics, using a generic electronics platform called "DBPM3" that is already being used for SwissFEL and SLS 2.0 electron BPM systems. In this contribution, first test results of a DBPM3-based HIPA BPM electronics prototype are presented, including a comparison with the present electronics.