Speaker
Mr
Chris Turner
(Diamond Light Source)
Description
Beamlines at many synchrotrons are using continuous or fly scanning to reduce experimental dead time, and many facilities are using hardware to trigger detectors based encoder position, regular time interval, or some external source. In 2015, a collaborative project was started between Synchrotron Soleil and Diamond Light source to upgrade their existing systems (SPIETBOX and ZEBRA) with a new ‘Position and Acquisition’ platform, called PandA or ZEBRA-2.
PandA/ZEBRA-2 is a 1U standalone system powered by a programmable Zynq FPGA-SoC for significant improvement of its predecessors’ existing processing, programmable functionality and system integration. It supports multi-channel digital I/O with 125MHz resolution and wide range of encoder protocols. An industry standard expansion slot provides interfacing to analogue and digital off-the-shelf boards or custom I/O modules. It offers Gigabit Ethernet connectivity for control systems integration and high-speed data acquisition.
This presentation will describe the features of PandA/ZEBRA-2 and give a timescale for availability.
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Mr
Chris Turner
(Diamond Light Source)
