TDAQ Kick-off: the Netherlands / Nikhef Nicolo de Groot (RU / Nikhef)
Ins tutes: • University of Amsterdam / Nikhef • Radboud University / Nikhef Exper se in ATLAS
Nikhef/Amsterdam since start of ATLAS involved in TDAQ, Nijmegen joined TDAQ in May 2015
• Early TDAQ architecture studies, “paper” and “computer” modeling • Gen I, Gen II, Gen III ROS (with CERN, Mannheim, RHUL, Rutherford, UCL): Robin / RobinNP firmware, Gen II and Gen III ROS PC selec on, tes ng, performance measurements, detector mapping, coordina on • DCS: ini al ELMB development, standard ELMB so ware • MuCTPiToTopo interface: hardware, firmware, so ware, topology triggering with muons • Tau trigger coordina on, trigger menu coordina on, further trigger related work, soon: B-physics trigger coordina on • Coordina on DAQ/HLT Run 1 paper: h p://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/11/06/P06008 • Phase-1 FELIX (with ANL, BNL, CERN, Irvine, RHUL, Weizmann): firmware and so ware development, hardware assessment, firmware development coordina on, so ware development coordina on,
Related to TDAQ: MDT RODs (MRODs): hardware, firmware, so ware: Nijmegen, Nikhef/Amsterdam Facili es
Nikhef Amsterdam Electronics Technology department: IC design, firmware and hardware development 24 persons, 19 engineers, 6 FPGA specialists. Dedicated op cal lab, signal integrity exper se (simula on, measurement equipment for up to 20 Gb/s serial links)
Computer Technology department: 20 persons 5 so ware engineers for support experimental groups 8 distributed compu ng specialists with server, network, distributed so ware, security exper se 7 persons for support, maintenance and management
Radboud University Nijmegen: 1 electronics engineer: FPGA specialist + 1 vacancy 1 so ware engineer Technocenter: pooled workshop with electronic and mechanic exper se ATLAS TDAQ testlab in Amsterdam: Gen III ROS PC, 9U VME crate with MRODs, Single Board Computer, TTC system, two PCs with FPGA card for FELIX development, several server PCs, 1, 10 and 40 Gb/s Ethernet networking Interest for phase-2: • Detector Readout – FELIX (MROD replacement MDT) • 2 scien st: 2.5 FTEY • 2 engineers: 6.5 FTEY • Event selec on so ware – Alorithm so ware + trigger menu • 2 scien st – 1.5 FTEY • 3 students – 1.2 FTEY • L0Topo • Interest in the algorithm / evtsel connec on • Some investment budget FELIX developers mee ng at Nikhef/Amsterdam, 29-Feb – 5-Mar 2016
1 Weizmann 2 Kai Chen3 Weihao Wu3 Soo Ryu4 2 CERN Frans Schreuder Jos Vermeulen Markus Joos 3 BNL Julia Narevicius1 Henk Boterenbrood Andrea Borga Mark Dönszelmann 4 ANL