DTS-100G -- A versatile heterogeneous MPSoC board for cryogenic sensor readout

TL;DR

The paper introduces DTS-100G, a versatile heterogeneous MPSoC board designed for cryogenic sensor readout, capable of serving as a generic data acquisition platform for various physics experiments.

Contribution

It presents the development and commissioning of a flexible MPSoC board built around a Xilinx Zynq Ultrascale+ for cryogenic sensor applications.

Findings

Successfully developed and commissioned the DTS-100G board.

Demonstrated the board's use in the ECHo-100k experiment.

Showcased the system architecture and integration in the DAQ chain.

Abstract

Heterogeneous devices such as the Multi-Processor System-on-Chip (MPSoC) from Xilinx are extremely valuable in custom instrumentation systems. This contribution presents the joint development of a heterogeneous MPSoC board called DTS-100G by DESY and KIT. The board is built around a Xilinx Zynq Ultrascale+ chip offering all available high-speed transceivers using QSFP28, 28 Gbps FireFly, FMC, and FMC+ interfaces. The board is not designed for a particular application, but can be used as a generic DAQ platform for a variety of physics experiments. The DTS-100G board was successfully developed, built, and commissioned. ECHo-100k is the first experiment which will employ the board. This contribution shows the system architecture and explains how the DTS-100G board is a crucial component in the DAQ chain.