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Kazuro FURUKAWA via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> · Wed, 7 Feb 2024 14:34:30 +0900

Hello Abdalla,

Since a decade ago, the LLRF controller in KEK employs IOC on FPGA.
https://epaper.kek.jp/icalepcs2011/papers/thdault05.pdf

Initially, it was dependent on VIrtex-5 and Wind River Linux.  It served for
several different purposes.  Nowadays, the new controller employs Zynq
UltraScale+ MPSoC and Ubuntu.

Cheers,
Kazuro

On Sun, Feb 4, 2024 at 3:35 PM Abdalla Ahmad via Tech-talk
<tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> wrote:
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> Hi
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> I would like to hear about experiences involving installing EPICS on an FPGA, mainly the following:
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> ·         A brief idea about the control system involved and why an FPGA implementation was better.
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> ·         What was the hardware platform used? Xilinx, Intel, etc.
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> ·         What software tools used? Vendor-specific (Xilinx Vivado, Intel Quartus, etc.) or 3rd party tools were used?
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> ·         What soft processor was used? Or an SoC-FPGA was used?
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> 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.
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> Thanks for any insight.
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> Best Regards,
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> Abdalla Al-Dalleh
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> Control Engineer
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> SESAME (Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East)
> P.O. Box 7, Allan 19252, Jordan
> Tel: +96253511348 , ext. 265
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> Fax: +96253511423
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> abdalla.ahmad at sesame.org.jo
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> www.sesame.org.jo

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Kazuro FURUKAWA <kazuro.furukawa at kek.jp>.
Linac&KEKB,  High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Japan.
Telephone: +81-29-864-5200 x4316.

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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