Difference between revisions of "Clock Card"
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== Functional Description == | == Functional Description == | ||
| + | Each MCE is equipped with only one Clock Card. There Clock Card is responsible for the following tasks: | ||
| + | * communicate to the outside world: | ||
| + | ** a pair of fibre optical links connected to a PC that controls the MCE subrack | ||
| + | ** a fibre link to a Sync Box. | ||
| + | * packet assembly/disassembly | ||
| + | * dispatch incoming commands to other cards in the MCE rack over the backplane | ||
| + | * Clock generation and distribution | ||
| + | * coordinate operation among MCE cards | ||
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* [[Clock Card firmware]] | * [[Clock Card firmware]] | ||
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* Block diagram [[http://www.phas.ubc.ca/%7Emce/mcedocs/hardware/board_block_diagram/cc_bd.pdf PDF]] (obsolete) | * Block diagram [[http://www.phas.ubc.ca/%7Emce/mcedocs/hardware/board_block_diagram/cc_bd.pdf PDF]] (obsolete) | ||
== Schematics == | == Schematics == | ||
Revision as of 15:52, 23 February 2012
Functional Description
Each MCE is equipped with only one Clock Card. There Clock Card is responsible for the following tasks:
- communicate to the outside world:
- a pair of fibre optical links connected to a PC that controls the MCE subrack
- a fibre link to a Sync Box.
- packet assembly/disassembly
- dispatch incoming commands to other cards in the MCE rack over the backplane
- Clock generation and distribution
- coordinate operation among MCE cards
- Clock Card firmware
- Block diagram [PDF] (obsolete)
