The Versatile Link+ Demo Board (VLDB+)

The Versatile Link Plus Demonstrator Board (VLDB+) is a board designed by CERN’s EP-ESE group to provide an evaluation kit for the Versatile Link Plus ecosystem (VL+). This reference design gathers three custom and radiation hard devices, namely, the Low-Power Gigabit Transceiver (lpGBT), the Versat...

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Published in:Journal of instrumentation 2022-03, Vol.17 (3), p.C03032
Main Authors: Montesinos, D.H., Baron, S., Guettouche, N., Mendez, J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Analogue electronic circuits
Digital electronic circuits
Front-end electronics for detector readout
Radiation-hard electronics
Systems design
Voltage converters (DC to DC)
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Summary:The Versatile Link Plus Demonstrator Board (VLDB+) is a board designed by CERN’s EP-ESE group to provide an evaluation kit for the Versatile Link Plus ecosystem (VL+). This reference design gathers three custom and radiation hard devices, namely, the Low-Power Gigabit Transceiver (lpGBT), the Versatile Link Plus Transceiver (VTRx+) and the FEASTMP DC-DC converters. These components are common to some of the HL-LHC experiments and constitute the main elements of the board. The VLDB+ is already being extensively used by several experiments to get acquainted with the whole ecosystem in order to facilitate their final front-end system design. In this article, all the features of the board together with the external system used for its control are described. Furthermore, a few performance results are shown and a brief status of the project is presented.
ISSN:1748-0221
1748-0221
DOI:10.1088/1748-0221/17/03/C03032