40 MHz scouting preprocessor

This board receives trigger data via 4-8 optical links @ 10 Gb/s and provides their data to an attached CPU-based compute system.

Requirements

The ipbb build environment requires Python 2.7, pip, and virtualenv to run. For the firmware build itself Xilinx Vivado (tested with 2018.2) and for the simulation Mentor Modelsim 10.6a are used.

Build instructions

A bitfile can be generated in the following way:

./scripts/makeProject.sh
./scripts/buildFirmware.sh

It can then be found in the folder build/scouting/proj/scouting_build/package.

Note: If the build scripts find the file buildToolSetup.sh in the base directory they will source it. It can be used to set the environment variables required for Vivado and Modelsim. A template (buildToolSetup_template.sh) is provided.

Things to do

There are multiple things that need to be done still, among them

• receiver logic
• preferably auto aligning
• rudimentary zero-supression logic
• (possibly:) IPbus access