HYBRID SEMINAR IN 13-2-005 AND ZOOM

Abstract:

The Front-End Link eXchange (FELIX) system is the common readout platform for the ATLAS experiment for High-Luminosity LHC. With this development, ATLAS is moving from the detector-specific hardware platforms of the past to a unified approach, leveraging improvements in the compute capabilities of FPGAs to deploy flexible high-speed routing and modern CPU performance to perform data preparation and monitoring purely in the software domain. An initial deployment of FELIX took place for LHC Run 3 for the trigger and detector systems upgraded at that point, and has been successfully integrated into ATLAS data taking. Beyond ATLAS, numerous other experimental collaborations around the world have also adopted FELIX as their readout platform, with additional pilot schemes in progress.

This presentation will cover the history of the FELIX project, its motivation and expected benefits, as well as the approach (both technical and within the community) for development and deployment. Finally, the experience of Run 3, how it will be taken into the HL-LHC era, as well as how the project relates more generally to the topic of commoditisation in HEP electronics, will be discussed.

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