High level requirements:

1
Software for the ESO New General detector
Controller Claudio Cumani, Andrea Balestra, Joerg
Stegmeier European Southern Observatory

• High level requirements
• VLT does not see difference
• to FIERA/IRACE
• Intermediate level requirements
• Huge on-the-fly data processing (infrared)
• Shutter/telemetry handling (optical) see poster
  Keep control PULPO II Eso's new housekeeping
  unit, by C.Geimer et al.
• And many more
• Optical/Infrared sw cannot be
• completely identical

2

• At low level
• Sequencer on the FPGA of each board
• Elementary detector timings are stored in
  patterns / voltages are stored in configuration
  files
• Patterns can be executed in series and/or loops,
  at different speeds, with different intervals
• Changes in pattern execution can be performed on
  the fly

See talk NGC Detector Array Controller Based
on High Speed Serial by M. Meyer and poster NGC
Front-end for CCDs and AO applications by
J.Reyes et al.
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NGC Sequencer programming
Prototype first-light already achieved !