Struck Documentation SIS8980

µRTM - Discriminator
Module

SIS8980
µRTM - Discriminator Module

User Manual

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Version: SIS8980-M-1-1-V100 as of 21.12.2016

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Revision Table:
Revision Date Modification
1.00 21.12.2016 Initial Release

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- Table of contents
- Table of contents ............................................................................................................................................. 3
1 Introduction ..................................................................................................................................................... 4
1.1 Related documents .................................................................................................................................. 4
2 Design ............................................................................................................................................................. 5
2.1 Functionality ........................................................................................................................................... 5
2.2 Block Diagram ........................................................................................................................................ 5
3 LEDs ............................................................................................................................................................... 6
3.1 µRTM LEDs ........................................................................................................................................... 6
3.2 SMD LEDs .............................................................................................................................................. 6
3.3 Discriminator thresholds ......................................................................................................................... 7
4 Front panel ...................................................................................................................................................... 8
5 Board Layout .................................................................................................................................................. 9
5.1 SIS8980 ......................................................................................................................................................... 9
5.1 SIS8980-PBNIMMCX PIGGY Board .................................................................................................. 10
6 RTM management......................................................................................................................................... 11
7 Appendix ....................................................................................................................................................... 12
7.1 Power Consumption .............................................................................................................................. 12
7.2 AMC / Zone 3 connectors J30 and J31 ................................................................................................. 13
7.2.1 J30 connector pin assignments ...................................................................................................... 13
7.2.2 J31 connector pin assignments ...................................................................................................... 14
7.2.3 J7/J70 connector pin assignments ................................................................................................. 14
8 Index ............................................................................................................................................................. 15

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1 Introduction

The SIS8980 is a RTM Discriminator with 16 channel input and 16 channels NIM-Logic
outputs according to the MTCA.4 standard. The NIM output logic is implemented on a piggy
board. The card was developed to be used in combination with the SIS8800 MTCA.4
scaler/counter.

SIS8980 with PIGGY in NIM configuration

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1.1 Related documents

For additional information in Terms of use and firmware see SIS8800-Manuel

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2 Design
The SIS8980 card is a discriminator input card for the SIS8800 scaler/counter. The output
stage is implemented on the SIS8980-PGNIMMCX. This card was designed to generate NIM-
logic output signals. Other future output driver designs are possible.

2.1 Functionality
The key properties of the SIS8980 card are listed below.

• MTCA.4 µRTM board

• IPMI port expander (µRTM management)
• 16 channel Discriminator Inputs, Connector Type MMCX
• 16 channel outputs with NIM logic signal, Connector Type MMCX
located on a extended Piggy Board, variable Pulse length 10 ns - 250 ns
• 16 Front LEDs for optical indication of each channel
• Each channel has independent programmable threshold
• 14 Bit DAC for each channel, 0,5mV/LSB , Range: -4,096V to 4,096V
• Comparator input voltage range -2,5V to 3,0V
• D1.1 Zone 3 compliance
• 50 Ohm +/- 1% DC Inputs
• MMC1.0 Compatible

2.2 Block Diagram

A simplified block diagram of the SIS8980 is shown below.

16 VCC
LED [1..16]
32 LED16

16 discriminator output CH16 in

Zone 3 5
50 Ohm

D1.1 SPI
16
Reset VCC

LED1

CH1 in
50 Ohm

16 adjustable
Discriminator Inputs

32
16 digital out Digtal out ch16
Piggy Board

Digtal out ch 1

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3 LEDs

3.1 µRTM LEDs

The µRTM LEDs are implemented according to the MTCA.4 standard.

3.2 SMD LEDs

A number of red surface mount LEDs are on the SIS8980 to visualize part of the board status.

LED designator LED comment Function

D100 R+5.5V R+5.5V present
D101 D+5V D+5V present
D102 A+5V A+5V present
D103 A-5V D+3.3V present
D104 D+3.3V A-5V present
D120 D-5.2V D-5.2V present
D121 R-6.5V R-6.5V present

16 green surface mount LEDs are on the front side of the SIS8980 PCB and visible through
the front panel. They are connected to the AMC via the J31 Zone 3 connector. With the
corresponding firmware for the SIS8800 they can be set and cleared under software control.
In standard operation the LED of a given channel is set with the leading edge of its threshold
crossing and cleared by firmware after a fixed pulse width, which guarantees visibility in the
low count rate case.

LED designator LED comment Function

D400A-D400G D400A-D400G CH1-CH8 LED
D401A-D401G D401A-D401G CH9-CH16 LED

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3.3 Discriminator thresholds

Each discriminator channel has a 14-bit DAC to set the threshold. It can be programmed from
-4,096V to 4,096V in steps of 0,5mV. The thresholds are settable for each channel
individually. The setting will be done via SDIO Interface and they are accessed via the Zone 3
connector. For pinout see 7.2.2.. Four daisy chained AD5734 quad DACs from Analog
Devices are used. Each device needs 24 clock cycles for a serial transfer. If there are more
than 24 cycles, it will be shifted out to the next device. The total number of clock cycles has
to be 96 cycles. Please refer to the data sheet from Analog Devices for the
AD5724/AD5734/AD5754 family for details.
The actual threshold range is limited by the comparator chip to the range from -2,5V to 3,0V.
The “set_rtm_dac.c” software example can be found on the Struck product DVD:
“\sis8xxx and DWC\sis8800\linux\sis8800_tests\set_rtm_dac
It uses the method rtmSetDacOutput (… from the SIS8800 library)

Note: The mixed VOUT D/C order is handled by the dac_dev_lut[17] lookup table in routine
rtmSPI.c

The scheme of the DAC daisy chain topology is illustrated below:

MOSI SDIN VOUT A DAC 1

SCK SCLK
Zone 3 SYNC SYNC VOUT B DAC 2
LDAC LDAC
MISO VOUT D DAC 3

VOUT C DAC 4
SDO

VOUT A DAC 5
SCLK
SYNC VOUT B DAC 6
LDAC
VOUT D DAC 7

VOUT C DAC 8
SDO

VOUT A DAC 9
SCLK
SYNC VOUT B DAC 10
LDAC
VOUT D DAC 11

VOUT C DAC 12
SDO

VOUT A DAC 13
SCLK
SYNC VOUT B DAC 14
LDAC
VOUT D DAC 15

VOUT C DAC 16
SDO

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4 Front panel
A sketch of the SIS8980 front panel is shown below.

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5 Board Layout

5.1 SIS8980
A silkscreen print out of the component side is shown below.

Connector types:
The used connectors are listed in the table below.

Designator Function Manufacturer Part Number

J7 Connector to Piggy Board TE 3-5176264-9
J30, J31 Zone3 Conn. to AMC ERNI 204781
J100 Male key guide µTCA TYCO 1469265-3 (*)
J501-J516 Input JYEBAO MMCX8400-9000
Note (*): The used Key may depend on the hardware configuration of the SIS8980

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5.1 SIS8980-PBNIMMCX PIGGY Board

A silkscreen print out of the component side is shown below.

Connector types:
The used connectors are listed in the table below.

Designator Function Manufacturer Part Number

J1-J16 Output JYEBAO MMCX8400-9000
J70 Connector to base board TE 4-1470209-8

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6 RTM management

The SIS8980 RTM is compliant to the PICMG MTCA.4 specification. It has an on-board I²C
EEProm (on address 0x50) and a NXP PCF8574-compatible port expander (on address
0x3E).

The table below lists the port expander connection map for normal operation:

Port pin Function

P0 HotSwap Switch (low active)+
P1 LED Blue (low active)
P2 LED Red (low active)
P3 LED Green (low active)
P4 PowerGood (low active)
P5 Reset (low active) (but not used)
P6 PowerEnable (low active)
P7 EEprom Write Protect

The EEprom contains any relevant device information (FRU records) about the RTM (refer to
PICMG AMC.0). Additionally the EEprom contains the new record types defined in PICMG
MTCA.4.

The RTM record contains the Zone 3 Identifier record listed in the table below.

Supported Zone 3 Identifier Records (Interface Identifier OEM):

IANA PEN (Private Zone 3 OEM record Description

enterprise number)
0x0092BD (37565) 0x88000001 SIS8800 Zone3 compatibility
0x0092BD (37565) 0x89800001 SIS8980 Zone3 compatibility

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7 Appendix

7.1 Power Consumption

The currents drawn by the SIS8980 are listed in the table below.

Voltage Current
3,3 V < 30 mA
12 V 1,95A

These currents are typical values during normal operation.

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7.2 AMC / Zone 3 connectors J30 and J31

J30 and J31 are 90 pin right angle male connectors providing 30 contact pairs each (60 signal
contacts and 30 ground contacts). Every contact pair is surrounded by a “L” shaped male
shield blade. The shielding contact is designated with the names of the corresponding signal
pair (signal pin a and b is affiliated with shielding contact ab e.g.). The scheme below shows
the connector contact layout as seen from the rear side of the board.

Front view

7.2.1 J30 connector pin assignments

The J30 connector is used to route power, data and system management pins to the AMC
board.

Col → ef f e cd d C ab b a
Row ↓
10 GND RESET LED GND nc nc GND CH16- CH16+
CH1 CH1
9 GND CH13- CH13+ GND CH14- CH14+ GND CH15- CH15+
8 GND CH10- CH10+ GND CH11- CH11+ GND CH12- CH12+
7 GND CH7- CH7+ GND CH8- CH8+ GND CH9- CH9+
6 GND CH4- CH4+ GND CH5- CH5+ GND CH6- CH6+
5 GND CH1- CH1+ GND CH2- CH2+ GND CH3- CH3+
4 GND nc nc GND nc nc GND nc nc
3 GND nc nc GND nc nc GND nc nc
2 GND nc nc GND SCL MP+3.3V GND PWR+12V PWR+12V
1 GND nc nc GND SDA PS# GND PWR+12V PWR+12V

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7.2.2 J31 connector pin assignments

The J31 connector is used to route data to the AMC board.

Col → ef f e cd d c ab b a
Row ↓
10 GND nc nc GND nc nc GND nc nc
9 GND nc nc GND nc nc GND nc nc
8 GND nc nc GND nc nc GND nc nc
7 GND SDIO. nc GND SDIO. nc GND SDIO. Nc
MOSI MISO SCK
6 GND SDIO. nc GND SDIO. nc GND nc PWR
LDAC SYNC GOOD_
L
5 GND RESET LED GND RESET LED GND RESET LED
CH14 CH14 CH15 CH15 CH16 CH16
4 GND RESET LED GND RESET LED GND RESET LED
CH11 CH11 CH12 CH12 CH13 CH13
3 GND RESET LED GND RESET LED GND RESET LED
CH8 CH8 CH9 CH9 CH10 CH10
2 GND RESET LED GND RESET LED GND RESET LED
CH5 CH5 CH6 CH6 CH7 CH7
1 GND RESET LED GND RESET LED GND RESET LED
CH2 CH2 CH3 CH3 CH4 CH4

7.2.3 J7/J70 connector pin assignments

J7 on the SIS8980 main card is used to connect to the output piggy board (i.e. to J70 on
SIS8980-PGNIMMCX).

Pin Nr. 50 49 48 47 46 45 44 43 42 41
Signal +3.3V +3.3V -5.2V -5.2V GND GND CH1- CH1+ CH2- CH2+
Pin Nr. 40 39 38 37 36 35 34 33 32 31
Signal CH3- CH3+ CH4- CH4+ GND GND CH5- CH5+ CH6- CH6+
Pin Nr. 30 29 28 27 26 25 24 23 22 21
Signal CH7- CH7+ CH8- CH8+ GND GND CH9- CH9+ CH10- CH10+
Pin Nr. 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11
Signal CH11- CH11+ CH12- CH12+ GND GND CH13- CH13+ CH14- CH14+
Pin Nr. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Signal CH15- CH15+ CH16- CH16+ GND GND -5.2V -5.2V +3.3V +3.3V

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8 Index
12 V 12 J31 6, 14
3,3 V 12 J7 14
AD5734 7 J70 14
AMC.0 11 JYEBAO 9, 10
Appendix 12 LEDs 6
Block diagram 5 LEDs
Board Layout SIS8980 9 RTM 6
Board Layout SIS8980-PBNIMMCX 10 SMD 6
Connector types 9, 10 LEDs red 6
D100 6 MTCA.4 4, 11
D101 6 NIM logic 4, 5
D102 6 NXP 11
D104 6 PCF8574 11
D120 6 PEN 11
D121 6 port expander 5
D400A-G 6 Power Consumption 12
D401A-G 6 RTM 11
dac_dev_lut 7 RTM connectors 13
ERNI 9 RTM Management 11
front panel 8 rtmSPI.c 7
FRU 11 SDIO 7
functionality 5 set_rtm_dac.c 7
IANA 11 SIS8800 4, 6, 7
IANA PEN 11 SIS8980 4
introduction 4 TE 9, 10
IPMI 5 TYCO 9
J30 13 Zone 3 6, 13

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