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Subject: Re: EPICS on FPGA
From: "Mooney, Tim M. via Tech-talk" <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
To: "tech-talk at aps.anl.gov" <Tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>, Abdalla Ahmad <Abdalla.Ahmad at sesame.org.jo>
Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2024 14:30:27 +0000
Hi Abdalla,

We haven't installed EPICS actually on an FPGA, but rather alongside an FPGA. We needed simple custom electronics for things like tracking encoders and generating triggers as a function of encoder positions, and we wanted close coordination between the FPGA stuff and EPICS. We use the Xilinx Zynq chip, in the form of the MicroZed. The tools are Xilinx Vivado, PetaLinux, and High Level Synthesis. The processor is a two-core ARM processor on the Zynq chip, which has good links to the FPGA.

and here

Tom Cobb and others have done something sort of similar at Diamond, yielding the PandAbox https://quantumdetectors.com/products/pandabox/
which also uses a Zynq chip.

Tim Mooney (mooney at anl.gov) (630)252-5417
Beamline Controls Group (www.aps.anl.gov)
Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Lab


From: Tech-talk <tech-talk-bounces at aps.anl.gov> on behalf of Abdalla Ahmad via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
Sent: Sunday, February 4, 2024 12:34 AM
To: tech-talk at aps.anl.gov <Tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
Subject: EPICS on FPGA
 

Hi

 

I would like to hear about experiences involving installing EPICS on an FPGA, mainly the following:

·         A brief idea about the control system involved and why an FPGA implementation was better.

·         What was the hardware platform used? Xilinx, Intel, etc.

·         What software tools used? Vendor-specific (Xilinx Vivado, Intel Quartus, etc.) or 3rd party tools were used?

·         What soft processor was used? Or an SoC-FPGA was used?

 

We have a control system running on an old PowerPC CPU with a deterministic fiber-optic interface and I am researching the idea of implementing it on FPGA.

 

Thanks for any insight.

 

Best Regards,

Abdalla Al-Dalleh

Control Engineer

SESAME (Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East)
P.O. Box 7, Allan 19252, Jordan
Tel: +96253511348 , ext. 265

Fax: +96253511423

abdalla.ahmad at sesame.org.jo

www.sesame.org.jo

 


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