TDAQ Kick-off: the / Nikhef Nicolo de Groot (RU / Nikhef)

Instutes: • University of / Nikhef • Radboud University / Nikhef Experse 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 selecon, tesng, performance measurements, detector mapping, coordinaon • DCS: inial ELMB development, standard ELMB soware • MuCTPiToTopo interface: hardware, firmware, soware, topology triggering with muons • Tau trigger coordinaon, trigger menu coordinaon, further trigger related work, soon: B-physics trigger coordinaon • Coordinaon DAQ/HLT Run 1 paper: hp://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/11/06/P06008 • Phase-1 FELIX (with ANL, BNL, CERN, Irvine, RHUL, Weizmann): firmware and soware development, hardware assessment, firmware development coordinaon, soware development coordinaon,

Related to TDAQ: MDT RODs (MRODs): hardware, firmware, soware: Nijmegen, Nikhef/Amsterdam Facilies

Nikhef Amsterdam Electronics Technology department: IC design, firmware and hardware development 24 persons, 19 engineers, 6 FPGA specialists. Dedicated opcal lab, signal integrity experse (simulaon, measurement equipment for up to 20 Gb/s serial links)

Computer Technology department: 20 persons 5 soware engineers for support experimental groups 8 distributed compung specialists with server, network, distributed soware, security experse 7 persons for support, maintenance and management

Radboud University Nijmegen: 1 electronics engineer: FPGA specialist + 1 vacancy 1 soware engineer Technocenter: pooled workshop with electronic and mechanic experse 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 scienst: 2.5 FTEY • 2 engineers: 6.5 FTEY • Event selecon soware – Alorithm soware + trigger menu • 2 scienst – 1.5 FTEY • 3 students – 1.2 FTEY • L0Topo • Interest in the algorithm / evtsel connecon • Some investment budget FELIX developers meeng 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