Description
An FPGA Mezzanine Card (FMC) for clock & data recovery (CDR) from optical sources has been developed at CERN. Its major components are a commercial clock/recovery IC, an optical receiver with FC connector and an SFP+ cage. The boards also offers two coaxial I/O connectors (LEMO series 00). The FMC is often referred-to as TTC FMC since its main purpose is to play the role of Timing Trigger and Control (TTC) receiver for particle physics applications (together with the associated FPGA firmware).
A diagram of the TTC FMC is shown below:
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A picture of the TTC FMC is shown below:
Work so far
| Date | Event |
| 01-03-2011 | Project start. |
| 30-04-2011 | Schematics done. |
| 27-05-2011 | Layout completed. |
| 24-06-2011 | Four printed circuit boards manufactured. |
| 17-08-2011 | Two cards assembled. |
| 01-09-2011 | Successful clock and data recovery from optical source. |
