Accelerator Controls & Beam Diagnostics Division
Timing (Delay Generator) Boards

FPGA Based Course-Fine Delay Generator Board
  • Five Channels Course-Fine programmable Delay generator board
  • FPAG based VME (A24:D16) delay generator board with 5 channels.
  • Delay of each channel is remotely adjustable in coarse and fine scale w.r.to input trigger.
  • Board can be operated with external and on-board oscillator
  • Fine delay resolution: 0.5 ns and Coarse delay resolution is governed by external clock/oscillator frequency
  • Outputs are TTL with 50 Ohm line drive
  • 5V VME DC voltage operated.
  • Application: Indus-1 Timing control system
 
FPGA Based Course Delay Generator Board
  • Five Channels Course delay Programmable Delay generator board
  • FPAG based VME (A24:D16) delay generator board with 5 channels.
  • Delay of each channel is remotely adjustable in coarse scale w.r.to input trigger.
  • Board is with on-board oscillator
  • Oscillator frequency governs the delay resolution
  • Outputs are TTL with 50 Ohm line drive.
  • 5V VME DC voltage operated
  • Application:Indus-1 Timing control system
 
FPGA based Seven channel Course Fine delay generator board
  • Seven Channels Course-Fine programmable Delay generator board.
  • FPGA based VME (A24:D16) board.
  • External and on-board clock.
  • External trigger input is optically isolated
  • Xilinx Spartan-3 FPGA is used to generate coarse delay and to realize other hardware logic
  • Fine delay resolution: 0.5 ns and coarse delay resolution: 31 ns with booster RF clock at 31.613 MHz
  • Outputs are TTL level with 50 Ohm line drive.
  • Channel-to-channel jiter: < 200 ps.
  • 5V VME DC voltage operated.
  • Application:Indus-2 Timing control system.
 
Coincidence and Revolution clock synchronized delay generator board
  • FPGA based VME (A24:D16) delay generator board.
  • This board generates coincidence clock (COIN) from of Indus-2 RF at 505.8 MHz and subsequent triggers synchronized to COIN Clock.
  • It also generates REV CLK (1.73 MHz) from Indus-2 RF and produces multiple triggers SYN to REV CLK for Pinger Magnets in Indus-2 ring and other beam diagnostics devices.
  • Mother board is configured for COIN trigger whereas daughter board for PM triggers.
  • It has one I/P and 15 Output triggers
  • Input trigger is optically isolated.
  • ECL based high speed clock circuit handles input RF signal (505.8 MHz) to generate RF clock for COIN clock, further requirement of logic circuits in FPGA, on-board circuits etc..
  • Delay is adjustable in coarse and fine scale
  • Delay resolution 0.5 ns and channel-channel jitter < 150 ps
  • 5V VME DC voltage operated.
  • Application:Indus-2 Timing control system.
 
Multiple channels Trigger pulse generator board
  • FPGA based VME (A24:D16) delay board.
  • Multiple Trigger O/Ps: 26 Nos. Triggers are distributed in main and patch boards.
  • REF Trigger I/P: External or internal. Frequency of REF trigger is programmable between 3- 9 kHz in internal mode.
  • Provision for external PECL based clock circuit and on-board oscillator is kept. 125 MHz oscillator is used
  • Trigger delay: Adjustable in coarse and fine scale
  • Delay resolution: coarse 8 ns and fine 0.5 ns
  • Trigger O/P:
    • TTL level with 50 ohm line drive
    • Pulse width is remotely settable: 2-9 µs
    • Rise time: ~ 3 ns
    • Channel-channel jitter ~ 200 ps
  • 5V VME DC voltage operated.
  • Application:BARC LPTD system
 
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