Skip to content
Snippets Groups Projects
Name Last commit Last update
circuit_board
hdl
README.md

CITY repository

Overview

CITY board has been designed for the ESRF timing & synchronization system. It is a standalone pizza box form factor module. It is based on:

  • FASEC design: Zynq SoC with Processing System (PS) running Linux for control system interface, and Programmable Logic (PL) for application gateware.
  • FMC DAC 12b 1cha DDS: RF signal distribution over a White Rabbit network (RFoWR).

This design is the next version of a previous module (WHIST) based on the SPEC card and implementing initial code of RFoWR (legacy WR Node Core, migrated to Mock Turtle).

In order to be compatible with current ESRF WHIST system, CITY design gateware implements the legacy WR Node Core. It is in the roadmap to follow the current RFoWR implementation (with Mock Turtle and future RoE protocol).

As this board has been developed for ESRF needs, it targets 352MHz RF frequency. 500MHz frequency support (for other synchrotron) is considered.

Content

circuit_board: PCB design

hdl: VHDL source for application gateware (WR, RFoWR, programmable pulses and clocks...)