Grieco v1718 v2718 siena

Novel Bridges for PC based VME control: 

Giovanni Grieco Marketing Division E-mail: g.grieco@caen.it 9th Topical Seminar on Innovative Particle and Radiation Detectors 23 - 26 May 2004   Siena, Italy Via Vetraia, 11 – 55049 VIAREGGIO (Italy) Phone: +39.0584.388398 Fax: +39.0584.388959 E-mail: info@caen.it URL: http://www.caen.it UNI EN ISO 9001 CERT. N. 9105.CAEN Novel Bridges for PC based VME control

Summary: 

Summary Overview Software Conclusions

The requests…: 

The requests… Low Cost solution for VME bus control Simple and user friendly Flexible

V1718: VME - USB 2.0 Bridge: 

V1718: VME - USB 2.0 Bridge VME64/64X compliant USB 2.0 Bulk Transaction Protocol Transfer rate: up to 30 MByte/s No additional hardware required No boot required: ready at power-up! Front panel data-way display Seven programmable I/Os

V1718 Block Diagram: 

V1718 Block Diagram

V2718+A2818: VME - PCI Bridge: 

V2718+A2818: VME - PCI Bridge VME64/64X compliant Optical Link 1.25 Gbit/s Daisy Chain Capability (up to 8 V2718 per A2818) PCI 32 bit / 33MHz No Protocol Overhead Transfer rate: up to ~60 MByte/sec No boot required: ready at power-up! Front panel data-way display Seven programmable I/Os Ready

V2718 Block Diagram: 

V2718 Block Diagram

CONet – Chainable Optical Network: 

CONet – Chainable Optical Network A2818 PCI CONet Controller V2718 CONet to VME Bridge Inter-Crate Optical Ring

Utilities: 

Utilities Data-way Display: 32 Address + 32 Data + 6 AM + 7 IRQ + AS, DS0, DS1, DTACK, BERR, IACK, WRITE, LWORD, SYSRES, BRQ, BG 5 Outputs + 2 Inputs (NIM or TTL, LEMO connectors): monitor of DS, AS, DTACK, BERR I/O registers, pulse generators, scalers, coincidence, etc… VME Location Monitor (trigger when executed a given cycle at a given address with a given data) VME execution synchronized with an external signal Front panel LEDs showing VME and I/O activity

VME Characteristics: 

VME Characteristics VME master (arbiter or requester) VME slave (registers and SRAM access) Cycles: RW, RMW, BLT, MBLT, IACK, ADO, ADOH Addressing: A16, A24, A32, LCK, CR-CSR Data width: D8, D16, D32, D64 System controller capabilities Interrupt handler Programmable Location monitor

Available Software: 

Support: Windows 98/2000/XP Linux Libraries: C/C++ Visual Basic LabView Example program Same Application Programmer Interface for both modules !! Available Software

Conclusions: 

Conclusions Two low cost solutions for easy VME interfacing have been presented: V1718 for USB 2.0 to VME V2718 + A2818 for PCI to VME