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The TRB3 is a flexible and modular FPGA-based data acquisition platform originating from the HADES detector at GSI.
-Unifying all base-functionality on a universal main-board, connectivity to the experimental setup is established using up to five application-specific add-on boards.
+Unifying all base-functionality on a universal main board, connectivity to the experimental setup is established using up to five application-specific add-on boards.
The platform is used by a number of detectors, amongst them prototypes for CBM-MVD and CBM-RICH.
-The board features five inexpensive Lattice ECP3 FPGA optimised for a high IO count rather than computational power which is typically not required for early DAQ stages:
-One central chip primarily executes management- and network-related tasks, while the remaining FPGAs together with their respective add-ons form four independent sub-systems.
+The board features five inexpensive Lattice ECP3 FPGAs optimised for a high IO count rather than computational power, which is typically not required for early DAQ stages:
+one central chip primarily executes management- and network-related tasks while the remaining FPGAs together with their respective add-ons form four independent sub-systems.
Applications include FPGA-based TDC- (up to 264 channels/board with a precision of 7.2~ps RMS [1]) and ADC-measurements as well as the read-out of high-speed digital signals, e.g. for the MAPS in case of CBM-MVD.
The TRB3 can be operated in a stand-alone fashion only requiring an external power supply and a PC capable of Gigabit Ethernet (GbE);
however, large systems are inherently supported by its internal network protocol, TrbNet, which was originally developed for HADES.
Since TrbNet features a central trigger and read-out scheme, CBM's streaming data transport is emulated using a free-running mode of operation based on periodic pulsers.
These cause the frontends to deliver their zero-suppressed data in packets with a temporal binning comparable to FlesNet's timeslices.
-To reduce data overhead, load adaptive trigger frequencies based on external signals, such as an spill-indicator, are supported.
+To reduce data overhead load adaptive trigger frequencies based on external signals, such as an spill-indicator, are supported.
-As shown in Fig.~\ref{fig:l2ea4-f1} current network typologies foresee a single CBMNet bridge for (possibly) multiple interconnected TRB3s as TrbNet hubs are easily available;
+As shown in Fig.~\ref{fig:l2ea4-f1}, current network typologies foresee a single CBMNet bridge for (possibly) multiple interconnected TRB3s since TrbNet hubs are easily available;
in case of bandwidth limitation multiple uplink modules are provisioned in the firmware.
-A unpacker software building on top of the FlesDaq infrastructure is available in CBMRoot.
-Additionally a dual-stack uplink with CBMNet and GbE is possible.
+An unpacker software building on top of the FlesDAQ infrastructure~[2] is available in CBMRoot.
+Additionally, a dual-stack uplink with CBMNet and GbE is feasible.
Synchronisation with native CBMNet frontends is possible by means of freely configurable DLMs.
-Different approaches using one or many DLMs are supported an exhibit and event-to-event jitter of $< 50$~ps RMS after converting TrbNet timestamps into the CBMNet domain.
+Several approaches suitable one to many DLMs are supported and exhibit an event-to-event jitter of $< 50$~ps RMS after converting TrbNet timestamps into the CBMNet domain.
-Graphical user interfaces to configure, monitor and debug the new firmware was developed and successfully tested in conjunction with the current CBM-RICH prototype during a beam time in November 2014 at Cern (PS).
+Graphical user interfaces to configure, monitor and debug the new firmware were developed and enable non-experts to operate the system.
+The network bridge was successfully used in conjunction with the current CBM-RICH prototype during a beam time in November 2014 at Cern (PS).
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C. Ugur and the TRB3 collaboration, ``264 Channel TDC Platform applying 65 channel high precision (7.2 psRMS) FPGA based TDCs'',
IEEE NoMe TDC, October 2013
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+ D. Hutter, ``NOT KNOWN YET'', ????, March 2015
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