PANDA Straws, Projects

PANDA Straws and DAQ system under beam

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February was a month of very intensive work to prepare our straw detector and Data Acquisition System for tests with proton beam from COSY accelerator at Juelich Forschungszentrum in Germany.

Together with 5 other groups we had granted one week of beamtime to evaluate the detectors, electronics and software.

It was the first time we evaluated operation of the entire, small scale detector system for PANDA experiment. Three detector subsystems: Forward Tracker, Electromagnetic Calorimeter and Time-of-Flight, each with their own readout system, were synchronized with SODANet system and generated data was processed by a set of 3 Compute Node modules for burst building and preliminary preprocessing.

  • Rack with Forward Tracker and EMC readout electronics
  • Beamline with all subsystems installed
  • Patch panel with optic fiber connections and ZCU102 board connected as the preprocessing system

It was also the possibility to test the data preprocessing system based on Xilinx ZCU102 platform. The board receives data streams from the digitizing boards and recovers track candidates, rejecting empty events.

HPC

Seminar – Using FPGA devices for Lattice QCD

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You are welcome to join the seminar by dr. Piotr Korcyl on Tuesday 15th January 2019 at 12:15 in room D-2-02 at the Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Computer Science of Jagiellonian University.

The talk will cover:

  • implementation of Conjugate Gradient algorithm on Xilinx Zynq MPSoC
  • design methodologies to accelerate computations on FPGA platforms using High Level Synthesis
  • memory management and data transport infrastructure
  • prospects to design an FPGA High Performance Computing platform.
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Stereo-camera available

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ZED Stereo camera from Stereolabs is available for research projects. It can be easily combined with ZCU104 and ZCU102 platforms which are powered by Zynq MPSoCs. The first one even has an example projects with step-by-step instructions for running a demo project.

The camera is used for depth perpection and motion tracking. Check out the video below:

We plan to evaluate this camera in our PET projects for tracking the patient under scan movement and real-time data corrections based on acquired values.

Diploma Projects

WEB Frontend builder for Slow Control

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The project is about designing and implementing a configurable frontend interface for Slow Control System for DJPET

Slow Control System allows to control and monitor parameters of the electronics included in the data acquisition system of the DJPET scanner.

The user interface should give a possibility to display values under various forms (e.g.: graphs, raw values etc.) refreshed at time intervals as well as collect input from the user. As the is dynamically developed, the GUI should be easily adjustable by inserting or removing new fields.

Projekt polega na zaprojektowaniu i zaimplementowaniu interfejsu graficznego dla systemu kontrolno/sterującego dla skanera DJPET

System kontrolno/sterujący pozwala na ustawianie i monitorowanie parametrów elektroniki wchodzącej w skład systemu akwizycji danych.

Interfejs użytkownika powinien dawać możliwość prezentowania odczytywanych wartości w różnych formach (grafy, surowe wartości, itp.) odświeżanych w zadanej częstotliwości oraz pozwalać użytkownikowi ustawiać parametry odczytu. Ponieważ system jest dynamicznie rozwijany, GUI powinno mieć możliwość łatwego dodawania  i usuwania nowych pól.

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Hardware shelf update

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Thanks to the department funding we have updated the hardware available for various projects. Do you have an idea for a project? Check out the list of boards and equipment below:

  • ZCU102 – Zynq MPSoC EG: advanced platform for all sorts of projects: networking, computing, video processing and much more

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  • ZCU104 – Zynq MPSoC EV: great for advanced video processing and HPC applications

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  • ZC706 – Zynq 45: Versatile platform for evaluation of System-on-Chip architectures

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  • ZYBO Z7 – Zynq 20: powerful and compact platform for various entry projects

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  • KC705 – Kintex 325: versatile platform for evaluation of Kintex devices

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  • ZedBoard Zynq 20: universal Zynq platform for entry projects

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  • ZED: stereo camera, compatible with ZCU104 platforms

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  • PCAM: video camera for Zybo platforms

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  • MTDS PMod: LCD screen with touch support

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  • NAV PMod: 9-axis IMU sensor

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  • And much more! Feel free to contact us in case you need some support
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III FPGA Symposium – Summary

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Thanks to all participants we had a great conference last week! Check out the short summary with handful of interesting stats and links.

  • on training day, a total of 40 participants exercised Intel or Xilinx FPGAs

  • during the symposium day we had 9 talks and 18 demonstrations

    • check the plenary and poster sessions pages for full lists, abstracts and slides

  • over 75 people showed up and up to 30 watched the online stream

  • you can watch the recorded plenary session on youtube at any time using this [link]

  • Poster/demonstration session results:

    • 1st   place: mgr inż. Paweł Jurgielewicz (AGH)

      • Realistic three-dimensional graphics accelerator using Vivado HLS for FPGA devices

    • 2nd place: Patryk Frączek (AGH)

      • Hardware-software vision system for the detection of safe landing sites for UAVs

    • 3rd place:

      • Michał Znaleźniak and Szymon Pulut (UJ)
        • tANS compression system
      • Karol Radwan (AGH)
        • Hardware-software implementation of a SFM module for navigation of UAV
      • Mgr inż. Piotr Rzeszut (AGH)
        • Oscilloscope based on small-size FPGA with VGA display

Congratulations to all participants!

Thanks to KAMAMI and ALDEC for funding the prizes for contestants.

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III FPGA Symposium – Update

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September has started – it means that the Symposium is approaching. Have a look at couple updates:

  • we will keep the registration opened for two more weeks!

Do not hesitate to register to the event using the form.

  • prizes for the best poster/demonstration

Thanks to our commercial partners Kamami and Aldec the stakes are rising! Prepare your poster or demonstartion to win some nice hardware. Have a look here to find out what you can win and a poster template if you need one.

  • preliminary schedules

Check plenary and poster sessions pages to find out our preliminary schedule and topics that will be covered

 

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End of FPGA Summer Camp 2018

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Last week we finished FPGA Summer Camp 2018 with great results.

Thank you all for cooperation! It was a full month filled with research and hard-work that brought a lot of fun to everyone. Below you can find some slides from participants that sum up our work a bit:

All projects were developed mostly using High Level Synthesis and form nice base projects, which can now be extended.

If you are interested in any of those topics, feel free to register to FPGA Symposium 2018 where most of them will be presented during the poster/demonstration session!

The summer comes to an end, but in case you would be interested in developing your own project, contact us at any time.