Glossary

• AFE

  Analogue front-end.

• AMC Module

  An AMC Module is a mezzanine or modular add-on card that extends the functionality of a Carrier Board. The term is also used to generically refer to the different varieties of Multi-Width and Multi-Height Modules.

• BaseMod

  Base-band input/output mezzanine.

• COTS

  Commercial off-the-shelf. Product which is designed and can be easily purchased.

• EEM

  Eurocard Extension Module is a Sinara standard for low-cost, low-bandwidth peripherals that are controlled by ARTIQ DRTIO.

• Fat Pipes

  Ports 4 though 11 of the AMC Connector constitute the Fat Pipes Region. This Region of Ports is intended for the assignment of multiple Lane interfaces, also called “fat pipes”. Fat Pipe 1 [Ports 4-7], Fat Pipe [Ports 8-11].

• FMC

  FPGA Mezzanine Card

• Hot Swap

  To remove a component (e.g., an AMC Module) from a system (e.g., an AMC Carrier AdvancedTCA Board) and plug in a new one while the power is still on and the system is still operating.

• IPMB

  Intelligent Platform Management Bus. The lowest level hardware management bus as described in the Intelligent Platform Management Bus Communications Protocol Specification.

• Management Power or MP

  The 3.3V power for a Module’s Management function, individually provided to each Slot by the Carrier

• MGT

  Multi-Gigabit Transceiver.

• MixMod

  An up-converting mezzanine, using an analogue IQ mixer to mix the input and output RF signals with a LO supplied by Sayma.

• MCH

  MicroTCA Carrier Hub. Board which manages whole uTCA crate.

• MMC

  Module Management Controller. The MMC is the required intelligent controller that manages the Module and is interfaced to the Carrier via IPMB-Local.

• RFBP

  RF Backplane.

• RTM

  Rear Transition Module.

• Sayma

  Smart Arbitrary Waveform Generator, providing 8 channels of 1.2 GSPS 16-bit DACs (2.4 GHz DAC clock) and 125 MSPS 16-bit ADCs. It consists of an AMC, providing the high-speed digital logic, and a RTM, holding the data converters and analog components.

• Sinara

  Open-source hardware ecosystem originally designed for use in quantum physics experiments running the ARTIQ control software. It is licensed under CERN OHL v1.2.

• uTCA

  Micro Telecommunications Computing Architecture. MicroTCA is a modular, open standard for building high performance computer systems in a small form factor.