DAMC-UNIZUP

The DAMC-UNIZUP is a versatile, high-performance MTCA.4 AMC board based on AMD Zynq Ultrascale+ MPSoC, with the emphasis on the RTM I/O connectivity. The board was designed by DESY and industrialized by Instrumentation Technologies, ensuring seamless integration and cost-efficient deployment in large-scale applications. Initially developed for RT-focused applications such as the PETRA IV Beam Position Monitor (BPM) system, the DAMC-UNIZUP serves as a flexible platform capable of hosting data processing logic for a variety of applications, either receiving/sending digital data through the SFP+ slots, or from/to an RTM digitizer with direct MPSoC/PL interface over the Zone 3 connector.

APPLICATIONS:

The DAMC-UNIZUP will be used for the BPM electronics of the PETRA IV project, where the signals from the BPM sensor are acquired and digitized by an RTM digitizing module (Libera 2BPMRTM), and passed to the DAMC-UNIZUP through the Zone 3 connector. This makes the DAMC-UNIZUP a perfect AMC candidate for multi-channel signal processing applications like Beam Position Monitoring, where the RTM card is used to capture and digitize the analog signals, and the AMC is used to perform all the FPGA processing and to provide all the required SW interfaces.

BLOCK DIAGRAM: 

The DAMC-UNIZUP AMC board was developed with an emphasis on the rich RTM I/O connectivity, while still providing the standard AMC backplane connections, such as the PCIe, SATA, Ethernet, M-LVDS and MGT p2p links. The standard DESY MMC Stamp takes care of the IPMI management functions, in-system firmware update and remote access.

Depending on the assembly option, the RTM interface features either D1.2 or D1.3 digital standard connectivity, allowing to implement ADC/DAC interfaces such as the JESD204B/C”, serial LVDS/LVCMOS.

The ZynqMP Processor System (PS) holds up to 4 ARM 64-bit CPU cores, running at up to 1.5 GHz*. There are two independent 4GB DDR4 memory banks available, one through the PS, and the other through the PL, allowing for plenty of space for the measurement buffers, as well as excellent OS support. The board can boot either from the SD card, from QSPI Flash or from eMMC, and thanks to the USB-C and Display Port support, it can act as a full workstation with a classic monitor/keyboard/mouse console.

The front panel provides 4 SFP+ ports for fast serial communication at up to 12.5/16.375 Gbit/s data rate, SMA clock I/O(s) connected to a flexible clocking tree, featuring two PLL clock managers, allowing for sourcing external clocks, and for generating them, as well as fast triggers and standard DESY Interblock interfaces.

This instrument works best when paired with Libera 2BPMRTM. Learn more about the product here.