Zest board

Zest (Z=e^(st)) is a double FMC mezzanine board performing Analog to Digital and Digital to Analog conversions. This board is mainly used as a part of Radio Frequency (RF) controls electronics systems in particle accelerators. Over 400 units have been manufactured by Berkeley Lab and SLAC National Laboratories and is the ADC/DAC board base design of the LCLS-II (Linac Coherent Light Source II) Low-Level RF (LLRF) system at SLAC.

The schematic is in gschem format; to work with it you need gschem installed. Tested on Debian Jessie, Stretch, or Buster, where you simply apt-get install geda-gschem.

The Zest board features:

• 8 x transformer-coupled inputs sampled at 95 MS/s (2 x AD9653)
• 2 x transformer-coupled outputs sampled at 190 MS/s (AD9781)
• Input clock source up to 3 GHz (LMK01801, no on-board oscillator)
• Extra clock divider output
• 2 x Pmod digital I/O
• Interface to FPGA via dual-LPC-FMC connectors
• 181.8 x 110 mm, 8-layer, with notch to accommodate Xilinx FMC eval boards, also known to work with Marble and Marble-Mini
• 4W power dissipation

This design has been skillfully ported to KiCad 8 by Gang Huang. Go here for that work, now labeled Zest v1.2.

Schematics

To get PDF versions for reference:

• Download the djboxsym tool. Put it in your PATH.

$ wget http://www.gedasymbols.org/user/dj_delorie/tools/djboxsym
$ echo "1a372fdef8e474119fae8acde38226f82271b62cd16b7f47b6b2408f0c0dd1ea  djboxsym" | sha256sum -c
djboxsym: OK

• call make in geda_library/symbol/djboxsym/, which generates symbols from the included symbol templates
• call make in digitizer/, which should generate digitizer_schematic.pdf

Artwork/Gerbers

Created by Kathy Pham at SLAC using PADS. The latest version is from May 19, 2017. The PADS design imports the netlist exported from this gschem design. These PADS pcb file is in the top directory in this repository (PC-379-396-15-C02_DIGITIZER BOARD.pcb) and the gerbers are in the gerbers directory.

QR-code serial-number overlay Gerbers are generated with qr_gen.py.

BOM

The BOM is also in the top directory in this repository (PC-379-396-15-C02_DIGITIZER BOARD_XY.xlsx). This file was exported from the PADS design referenced above.

If you run make merged_xy.csv, you can merge the actual orderable part numbers (kept here in the parts.data file) and get a usable xy assembly file for fabrication.

Plastic Cover

One corner of the digitizer (by J3, clock input) has some fragile transformers very close to where SMA wrenches are used. It has proved helpful to have a protective cover in place to avoid damage. This is designed in OpenSCAD with a process that matches up its features with the Gerber file; see covergen.py. The OpenSCAD source file is cover1.scad. OpenSCAD will export an STL file which is easily 3-D printed.

References

G. Huang, L. R. Doolittle, J. Yang, Y. Xu, "Low Noise Digitizer Design for LCLS-II LLRF," in NAPAC2016 TUPOA40.

Copyright

Zest Copyright (c) 2019, The Regents of the University of California, through Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (subject to receipt of any required approvals from the U.S. Department of Energy), and The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved.

This documentation describes Zest and is licensed under the CERN OHL v. 1.2.

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