PCI-LVDS and S-Link

Under construction! Last Modified: July 27, 2001

Resources

Item PCI-LVDS(Fird) S-Link PCI-LVDS(EDT)
Man Power Y.Yamashita and Y.Yasu Y.Yasu C.C.Wang

Hardware

Item PCI-LVDS S-Link PCI-LVDS(EDT)
Products Fird(Japanese company) CERN(HEP Lab. in Switzerland) EDT(Taiwan company)
Components PCI Interface with Mezzanin PCI Interface with Mezzanin PCI Interface
PCI Interface FPGA(ALTERA) AMCC chipset(S5933) FPGA(Xilinx)
Mezzanin card not defined yet ODIN Built in(No card)
Driver/Receiver LVDS(350mV differential) Optical(G-Link) LVDS(350mV differential)
Direction Bidirectional Unidirectional Bidirectional
Transfer speed(specification) 50MB/sec 128MB/sec 60MB/sec
FIFO size 8 kB 1 kB 4 kB for input and 4kB for output
Length of Cable over 10M(Category3 or Category5 is better) over 100M ?
Terminator 100ohm+-20ohm 100ohm+-20ohm
Flow control LDC (Link Destination Card) can assert a signal, UXOFF#, which causes it to transmit an XOFF code to the LSC (Link Source Card). This stops data transmission from the LSC. When the signal is de-asserted, an XON code is transmitted to the LSC which allows transmission to resume.

UXOFF# is active afer 512 bytes are received and not read out at LDC.

Software

Item PCI-LVDS(Fird) S-Link PCI-LVDS(EDT)
Linux driver KEK Online group product CERN ATLAS DAQ-1 group product EDT company product
Current status of driver Simple driver is working. Their driver is working. Their driver is working.
Test program Simple test program is working. Their test program is working. Test is in progress.