TY  - CONF
AU  - Lüghausen, Kai
AU  - Dziewiecki, Michal
AU  - Kaiser, Karlheinz
AU  - May, Gerhard
AU  - Rauch, Stefan
AU  - Thieme, Matthias
TI  - Next Generation GSI/FAIR Scalable Control Unit: Lessons Learned from 10 Years in the Field
CY  - Geneva
PB  - JACoW Publishing
M1  - GSI-2025-00606
SP  - 3 pages
PY  - 2023
N1  - Published by JACoW Publishing under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s), the published article's title, publisher, and DOI.
AB  - The end-of-life of many components brought the need for a redesign of our main Control System Front-End - the SCU (Scaleable Control Unit). It was a chance to make improvements and use more powerful state-of-the-art core components. This included a new Arria 10 FPGA and a completely redesigned housekeeping circuit based on an AVR microcontroller. Further, the project was cleaned by removing unused components and features. Main frame conditions stay fixed for backward compatibility, like the mechanical form factor or the 16-bit parallel bus. Majority of gateware and firmware could be reused and just some adaptations for the new FPGA were needed. Nevertheless, providing continuous compatibility with legacy peripherals needed a substantial effort.
T2  - 13th International Workshop on Emerging Technologies and Scientific Facilities Controls
CY  - 4 Oct 2022 - 7 Oct 2022, Dolní Brežany (Czech Republic)
Y2  - 4 Oct 2022 - 7 Oct 2022
M2  - Dolní Brežany, Czech Republic
KW  - Accelerator Physics (Other)
KW  - Hardware Technologies and Component Integration, System Modeling and Automation (Other)
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)8 ; PUB:(DE-HGF)7
DO  - DOI:10.18429/JACOW-PCAPAC2022-THP15
UR  - https://repository.gsi.de/record/358724
ER  -