| Article | |
| Title | PCI Express Over Optical Links for Data Acquisition and Control |
| Author(s) | Bellato, M ; Isocrate, R ; Meng, G ; Passaseo, M ; Rampazzo, G ; Triossi, A ; Ventura, Sandro |
| Affiliation | (INFN Sezione di Padova, Italy) |
| Publication | CERN, 2007 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| In: | Proceedings of the Twelfth Workshop on Electronics for LHC and Future Experiments, pp.232-235 |
| DOI | 10.5170/CERN-2007-001.232 |
| Subject category | Detectors and Experimental Techniques |
| Abstract | PCI Express is a new I/O technology for desktop, mobile, server and communications platforms designed to allow increasing levels of computer system performance. The serial nature of its links and the packet based protocols allows an easy geographical decoupling of a peripheral device. We have investigated the possibility of using an optical physical layer for the PCI Express, and we have built a bus adapter which can bridge remote busses (> 100m) to a single host computer without even the need of a specialized driver, given the legacy PCI compatibility of the PCI Express hardware. This adapter has been made tolerant to harsh environmental conditions, like strong magnetic fields or radiation fluxes, as the data acquisition needs of high energy physics experiments often require. |
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