Difference between revisions of "Clock Card"
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* [[Clock Card Rev B5 to Rev B6 changes]] | * [[Clock Card Rev B5 to Rev B6 changes]] | ||
* [[Clock Card Rev B to Rev C changes]] | * [[Clock Card Rev B to Rev C changes]] | ||
+ | * [http://www.phas.ubc.ca/~mce/mcedocs/system/SC2_ELE_S580_529_mce_protocols.pdf Fiber Communicaiton Protocol] | ||
== Schematics == | == Schematics == |
Revision as of 16:48, 26 September 2014
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
- Clock Card commands
- Block diagram [PDF] (obsolete)
- Clock Card Rev B5 to Rev B6 changes
- Clock Card Rev B to Rev C changes
- Fiber Communicaiton Protocol