10 Gbps TCP/IP streams from the FPGA for high energy physics

Bauer, G.; Bawej, T.; Behrens, U.; Branson, J.; Chaze, O.; Cittolin, S.; Coarasa, J. A.; Darlea, G.-L.; Deldicque, C.; Dobson, M.; Dupont, A.; Erhan, S.; Gigi, D.; Glege, F.; Gomez-Ceballos, G.; Gomez-Reino, R.; Hartl, C.; Hegeman, J.; Holzner, A.; Masetti, L.; Meijers, F.; Meschi, E.; Mommsen, R. K.; Morović, Srećko; Nunez-Barranco-Fernandez, C.; O'Dell, V.; Orsini, L.; Ozga, W.; Paus, C.; Petrucci, A.; Pieri, M.; Racz, A.; Raginel, O.; Sakulin, H.; Sani, M.; Schwick, C.; Spataru, A. C.; Stieger, B.; Sumorok, K.; Veverka, J.; Wakefield, C. C.; Zejdl, P. (2014) 10 Gbps TCP/IP streams from the FPGA for high energy physics. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 513 . 012042/1-012042/7. ISSN 1742-6588

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Abstract

The DAQ system of the CMS experiment at CERN collects data from more than 600 custom detector Front-End Drivers (FEDs). During 2013 and 2014 the CMS DAQ system will undergo a major upgrade to address the obsolescence of current hardware and the requirements posed by the upgrade of the LHC accelerator and various detector components. For a loss-less data collection from the FEDs a new FPGA based card implementing the TCP/IP protocol suite over 10Gbps Ethernet has been developed. To limit the TCP hardware implementation complexity the DAQ group developed a simplified and unidirectional but RFC 793 compliant version of the TCP protocol. This allows to use a PC with the standard Linux TCP/IP stack as a receiver. We present the challenges and protocol modifications made to TCP in order to simplify its FPGA implementation. We also describe the interaction between the simplified TCP and Linux TCP/IP stack including the performance measurements.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	physics; nuclear; physics; particles and fields
Subjects:	NATURAL SCIENCES > Physics
Divisions:	Division of Experimental Physics
Depositing User:	Srećko Morović
Date Deposited:	25 Jul 2016 12:49
URI:	http://fulir.irb.hr/id/eprint/2986
DOI:	10.1088/1742-6596/513/1/012042

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