Project APOLLO

This is a project to develop a common ATCA blade which can be used for readout and triggering applications in LHC experiments. It is named after the Apollo program CSM spacecraft which separated into Command and Service modules.

​Photos

Debug Log

• Apollo RevA -- Please log all debugging activity here
• Apollo RevB Bring-up

Quick Links

• TWEPP 2019 paper: ​arXiv:1911.06452 ​Talk
• Document SVN: ​http://gauss.bu.edu/svn/common-atca-blade
• Hardware SVN: ​http://gauss.bu.edu/svn/common-atca-blade.hardware (BU Service Module)
• GitHub: ​https://github.com/apollo-lhc
• Apollo Inventory -- List of boards with location and status (including MAC/IP addresses)
• Monitoring at ​BU

SM

Rev 2b

• Not yet built

Rev 2

• Rev2 SoCs
• ServiceModuleRev2ECOList -- list of ECOs for the Rev 2 service module

• Rev 2 Schematics:
  • Service module (Boston): ​carrier.pdf

Rev 1/A

• Rev 1 Schematics:
  • Service module (Boston): ​carrier.pdf
  • FrontPanelBoard: ​schematic • ​pcb
  • FacePlateMechanics
• Comments / ECOs
  • EN_ONE_JTAG_CHAIN should have a pull-up/down and/or jumper so something sensible happens when the IPMC is not installed or programmed.
  • Serial comms between Zynq and CM should be possible without IPMC intervention.
  • How to turn on payload power with no IPMC installed/running?
  • JTAG (and other GPIO) signals must obey ENABLE/READY to avoid driving CM logic when not powered
  • ServiceModuleRevAECOList -- list of ECOs for the Rev A service module

CM

Interface

• CM-SM Dev

Rev 1

• Command module (Cornell): ​atca_mezz_ku15p_vu7p_30Aug2019.pdf (local copy)

IPMC

• ApolloIPMC -- Documentation on IPMC for Apollo (see also ​CERN IPMC page)

ATLAS

• DRAFT specification (ATLAS specific for now): ​common_blade.pdf

Purchasing

• ​FPGAs
• Others: ​Serenity APX?
• TODOs

Remote Users

• Apollo Inventory -- List of boards with location and status
• Blade IPs at the TIF ​here.
• ​BU SM status (realtime)
• ​Remote Access Calendar

Info and Help

• Remote Access Instructions
• Apollo SM recipes
• Apollo SM troubleshooting

Software

• UIOuHAL ​Slides 10-12 ​GITHUB UIOuHAL
• BUTool+ApolloSM single ​checkout
• ApolloSM Software ToDo -- ApolloSM Software To-Do-List

Firmware

• SM Zynq SM IPMC
• CMS CM Kintex CMS CM Virtex? CMS CM uC
• ​net-boot notes

Aux boards

• ApolloClocksTestBreakout -- "PicoDTH" clocks breakout for ATCA J23
• DummyCommandModule -- Breakout/loopback for CM connectors

Reference Material

• ATLAS SoC URD ​EDMS
• ​ATCA spec (password)
• CMS ATCA use: ​IN2018_002.pdf (update April 2019)
• CMS DTH spec: ​IN2018_001.pdf (update April 2019)
• ​CMS tracker repository
• Carrier specs
• ZYNQ DBS - Zynq daughterboard information
• ​TE Connectivity ATCA brochure
• JtagSVFProgramming -- collected notes on JTAG from SVF files
• Zynq eMMC
• device-tree

Firmware Reference

• ​IPBus repository
• ​IPBB Primer (IPBus builder)

ApolloHistory -- older stuff