2023/11/03 by T. Mehner, Luis E. Ardila-Perez, Mehner, T. +37 · 1 citation
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Data Storage Technologies #Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems #FOS: Physical sciences #Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det) #Particle Detector Development and Performance
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2311.02222
openalex publication_date 2023/11/03 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The Serenity-S1 is a Xilinx Virtex Ultrascale+ based Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture (ATCA) processing blade that has been optimised for production. It incorporates many developments from the Serenity-A and Serenity-Z prototype cards and, where possible, adopts solutions being used across CERN. It also uses many new parts because commonly used parts have disappeared from the market during the semiconductor crisis, with only some returning. Improvements to simplify manufacture, the performance of new components, some of the more difficult aspects of procurement, the performance of production-grade Samtec 25 Gb/s optical firefly parts, and issues with the rack cooling infrastructure are discussed.