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DESY Advanced Mezzanine Card DAMC2
MTCA.4 compatible AMC module DAMC2
The new generation of the board, the AMC board - DAMC2 in double height, has improved the versatility and overcame the limitations of the first generation.
The most obvious improvement is that the board is now developed according to the preliminary MTCA.4 specification by the PICMG consortium. This extension to the µTCA standard aims at applications for data-acquisition and control systems for Physics instrumentation. Main ingredients are a bigger form factor and a two (one) connectors to a rear transition module (µRTM). These approach increases the available PCB space by nearly a factor of four and allows to create modular systems. The analog or digital rear transition Input/Output as well as signal conditioning measures can be separated from the FPGA based front board.
Additional features of the DAMC2 are:
- Double, mid- or full- size AMC-board with the possible extension by a rear transition module (µRTM) according to the xTCA for Physics preliminary specification
- Plug in position for a VITA 57.1 compliant FPGA Mezzanine Card (FMC)
- Four optical links (SFP) at the front panel for external communication
- Increased SDRAM Memory size of 1 Gbit operating at a 32bit wide bus
- Custom defined MLVDS interface to the backplane
- Flexible clock distribution scheme
- Sophisticated JTAG daisy chain
