Embedded software developments in KM3NeT phase I

TL;DR

This paper discusses the architecture and functionalities of embedded software in the Central Logic Board of KM3NeT's deep-sea neutrino detectors, highlighting its role in data acquisition and control.

Contribution

It introduces the design and implementation of embedded software for the Central Logic Board used in KM3NeT's neutrino detection modules.

Findings

Successful deployment of over a thousand acquisition boards

Effective software architecture for data acquisition and control

Enhanced detector performance through embedded software

Abstract

The KM3NeT Collaboration has already produced more than one thousand acquisition boards, used for building two deep-sea neutrino detectors at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, with the aim of instrumenting a volume of several cubic kilometers with light sensors to detect the Cherenkov radiation produced in neutrino interactions. The the so-called Digital Optical Modules, house the PMTs and the acquisition and control electronics of the module, the Central Logic Board, which includes a Xilinx FPGA and embedded soft processor. The present work presents the architecture and functionalities of the software embedded in the soft processor of the Central Logic Board.