The MicroTCA.4 Fast Control and Processing Board for Generic Control and Data Acquisition Applications in HEP Experiments

The MicroTCA.4 fast control and processing (u4FCP) board is an FPGA-based double-width MicroTCA.4-compatible advanced mezzanine card (AMC) for generic control and data acquisition applications in high-energy physics (HEP) experiments. Built around the Xilinx Kintex UltraScale+ FPGA, the u4FCP provides users with a platform which has access to on-board FPGA mezzanine card (FMC) sockets with an array of configurable I/O and high-speed links up to 100 Gbps. In addition, the rear transition module (RTM) allows separation of processing and I/O functionality with the Kintex-7 FPGA and more FMC sockets. The increased processing capacity and area on the RTM allow a significant increase in the amount of FPGA resources and I/O connections. The on-going research and development effort carried out on applications in HEP experiments is presented.