Difference between revisions of "Clock Card"

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* [[Clock Card firmware]]
 
* [[Clock Card firmware]]
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* [[MCE commands#Clock card commands|Clock Card commands]]
 
* 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)
 
* [[Clock Card Rev B5 to Rev B6 changes]]
 
* [[Clock Card Rev B5 to Rev B6 changes]]

Revision as of 10:03, 10 September 2014

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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

Schematics

  • Rev. B5 schematic [PDF]
  • Rev. B6 schematic [PDF]
  • Rev. C0 schematic [PDF]