Compute Node Overview

An FPGA-based computational node for PANDA, BESIII and HADES.

For information about old and deprecated versions of the Compute Node, please refer to this page.

Compute Node Version 3 (CNv3):

Motherboard

The so called Compute Node (CN) is foreseen as the FPGA-based hardware component of the PANDA DAQ. The third revision of the CN is an ATCA (Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture) based carrier board. It is able to hold up to 4 xFP boards. The CN is equipped with a Xilinx Virtex 4 FX60 as a switching FPGA to connect the xFP boards in an intelligent way to the backplane. It also supplies direct high speed communications between these boards via Rocked IO.

Daughterboard (xFP)

An xFP board is an Extended Telecommunications Computing Architecture (xTCA) compliant board. It is an FPGA based μTCA compliant board featuring a Xilinx Virtex 5 FX70T -2 FPGA, 4 GB DDR2 RAM, 1Gb Ethernet, and 4 SFP+ (Small Form Factor Pluggable) cages. These cages can be equipped for example with optical or RJ45 interfaces.

Compute Node Version 4 (CNv4)

Carrier Board

High-resolution photographs of the first CNCB4 prototypes can be found attached to this topic.
I Attachment Action Size Date Who Comment
cncb4_bottom.jpgjpg cncb4_bottom.jpg manage 7 MB 2018-06-18 - 11:24 UnknownUser Bottom view of Compute Node Carrier Board v4
cncb4_bottom_high_0s.jpgjpg cncb4_bottom_high_0s.jpg manage 9 MB 2018-06-18 - 11:27 UnknownUser Detailed bottom view (upper back) of Compute Node Carrier Board v4
cncb4_bottom_high_1.jpgjpg cncb4_bottom_high_1.jpg manage 7 MB 2018-06-18 - 11:28 UnknownUser Detailed bottom view (upper mid) of Compute Node Carrier Board v4
cncb4_bottom_high_2.jpgjpg cncb4_bottom_high_2.jpg manage 4 MB 2018-06-18 - 11:29 UnknownUser Detailed bottom view (upper front) of Compute Node Carrier Board v4
cncb4_bottom_low_0.jpgjpg cncb4_bottom_low_0.jpg manage 9 MB 2018-06-18 - 11:29 UnknownUser Detailed bottom view (lower back) of Compute Node Carrier Board v4
cncb4_bottom_low_1.jpgjpg cncb4_bottom_low_1.jpg manage 6 MB 2018-06-18 - 11:29 UnknownUser Detailed bottom view (lower mid) of Compute Node Carrier Board v4
cncb4_bottom_low_2.jpgjpg cncb4_bottom_low_2.jpg manage 5 MB 2018-06-18 - 11:30 UnknownUser Detailed bottom view (lower front) of Compute Node Carrier Board v4
cncb4_top.jpgjpg cncb4_top.jpg manage 6 MB 2018-06-18 - 11:24 UnknownUser Top view of Compute Node Carrier Board v4
cncb4_top_high_0.jpgjpg cncb4_top_high_0.jpg manage 8 MB 2018-06-18 - 11:32 UnknownUser Detailed top view (upper back) of Compute Node Carrier Board v4
cncb4_top_high_1.jpgjpg cncb4_top_high_1.jpg manage 6 MB 2018-06-18 - 11:33 UnknownUser Detailed top view (upper mid) of Compute Node Carrier Board v4
cncb4_top_high_2.jpgjpg cncb4_top_high_2.jpg manage 3 MB 2018-06-18 - 11:33 UnknownUser Detailed top view (upper front) of Compute Node Carrier Board v4
cncb4_top_low_0.jpgjpg cncb4_top_low_0.jpg manage 8 MB 2018-06-18 - 11:33 UnknownUser Detailed top view (lower back) of Compute Node Carrier Board v4
cncb4_top_low_1.jpgjpg cncb4_top_low_1.jpg manage 5 MB 2018-06-18 - 11:34 UnknownUser Detailed top view (lower mid) of Compute Node Carrier Board v4
cncb4_top_low_2.jpgjpg cncb4_top_low_2.jpg manage 3 MB 2018-06-18 - 11:34 UnknownUser Detailed top view (lower front) of Compute Node Carrier Board v4
Topic revision: r10 - 2018-06-18, ThomasGessler
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