• Timing System

    The Timing System provides a complete timing distribution system including timing signal generation with only a few components. Throughout the design of the Event System especially requirements of synchrotron light sources were taken into consideration, however, the system may be applied also to other facilities.

    Usually timing events are synchronized to a master clock reference e.g. the main acceleration frequency. Synchronization to the mains voltage phase is required, too, to keep the beam intensity and quality on the same level on consecutive triggers.

    The Event System is capable of generating and distributing ring revolution frequencies, trigger signals and sequences of events, etc. synchronous to an externally provided master clock reference and mains voltage phase signal. Support for timestamps makes the system a global timebase and allows attaching timestamps to collected data and performed actions.

    Timing System components are available in VME form factor supporting standard VME and VME64x with hot-swap capability. Event Receivers are available in PCI mezzanine card (PMC) form factor.

    CompactPCI/PXI versions of both the Event Generator and Event Receiver are in development.
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  • mTCA.4 Timing Products

    mTCA.4 Timing System Products represent the leading edge of our product category providing the best timing resolution and stability. The current mTCA.4 series of timing system boards is the series 300. This series includes the following boards:

     

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  • VME Timing Products

    VME Timing System Products represent the leading edge of our product category providing the best timing resolution and stability. The current VME64x series of timing system boards is the series 300. This series includes the following boards:

    • Event Master VME-EVM-300
    • Event Receiver VME-EVR-300

    The above boards may be used in VME64x crates only.

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  • CompactPCI Timing Products

    CompactPCI/PXI products are introduced as a lower cost solution to leading edge VME based Timing System Products. Prototypes will be available by the end of 2006.

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  • PMC Timing Products
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  • Universal I/O Modules

    Universal I/O modules are small mezzanines (25.6 mm x 50 mm) which provide different types of inputs and outputs to VME series, CompactPCI and mTCA.4 series Event Generators and Event Receivers.

    Universal I/O module filler panels

    The modules with inputs are targeted for use with Event Generators and the output modules are targeted for Event Receivers.

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  • RTEMS lm32 Port

    Micro-Research has written a Lattice Mico32 port to the RTEMS operating system. The port has been committed to RTEMS CVS (which will become rtems-4.10). Currently a BSP (board support package) exists for custom hardware, but almost all of the code is shared and could be used as is on almost any Lattice Mico32 platform.

    The following Mico System Builder (MSB) components have drivers and are supported:

    • Console on MSB UART (3.2), for now polled mode only
    • Clock using MSB Timer (3.0)
    • Timer using MSB Timer (3.0)
    • Networking driver for Lattice Tri-Speed Ethernet MAC

    The MSB platform that the BSP has been built for consists of the following components:

    Name Base Address Irq
    		Description
    LM32
    		 0x00000000
    		lm32 and Debug port
    ebr 0x04000000 32kbytes embedded RAM used for exceptions
    ddr2_sdram
    		 0x08000000
    		64Mbytes DDR2 SDRAM
    timer0
    		 0x80002000
    		 1
    		Timer for RTEMS clock
    gpio
    		0x80004000
    		General Purpose I/O (unused)
    uart
    		 0x80006000
    		0
    		 Serial Port / Console
    ts_mac_core
    		0x80008000
    		2
    		Tri-Speed Ethernet MAC
    timer1
    		 0x8000A000 3
    		 Timer for RTEMS timer (Timer tests)

    To build the RTEMS port you need to build the tools and then build RTEMS and optionally build sample test applications.

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  • Product Price List
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  • Timing News
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  • Downloads
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  • Timing Workshop

    MRF Timing System Workshop, organized by This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Moderator
    This workshop will focus on future directions for the MRF event system. We would like to discuss:

    • What requirements are coming up for future projects?
    • What problems remain unsolved for current projects?
    • What new features are needed?
    • Can we set some priorities for the near future?

    This workshop will be held from 8am – noon. For more information, contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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