Hardware

In the table below you can find the complete list of all the needed hardware components for builing the BrightEyes-TTM.

• BrightEyes-TTM Mainboard
  • BrightEyes-TTM Firmware
• FMC-to-USB Adapter
  • Interconnect board
  • USB data chip
    • Firmware
• I/Os adapters & Pinout
  • SMA/SMB-to-FMC board
    • Pinout I/Os SMA/B-to-FMC board
  • SPAD7x7-to-FMC board
    • Pinout I/Os 7x7SPAD-to-FMC board
  • Pinout synchronization

Optional hardware parts

• MPD NIM 2 TTL
• 8xDigiBuffer

How to assemble / setup the harware

The Xilinx® KC705 Evaluation board, the Cypress® FX3™ SuperSpeed Explorer Kit and the connector card can be easily stacked together, using FMC connectors, as shown below (Fig. 3). I/Os connections are also labeled for a more intuitive assembly and mapped in the I/O pins table which shows the correspondence between inputs (typically the digital output from the SPAD array detector elements, named photon chaneels) and the connection pins. For a correct use of the BrightEyes-TTM the dip switches in the orange BOX (always Fig.3) should be all set to the OFF position.

The Cypress® FX3™ SuperSpeed Explorer Kit board interlock into the FMC-LPC connector block. While the I/Os connector cards is connected to the FMC-HPC connector.

Fig.3 - BrightEyes-TTM detailed assembly.

In the current application the BrightEyes-TTM provides the duplication of the central channel.

Firmware version	Conn.	SPAD	Board	Central PX	Dupl. output on
Single-Ended inputs	SMA/SMB	25 ch.	I/O SMA/B-to-FMC adapter board	PX10 (J13)	J17
Differentials inputs	HPC	49 ch.	I/O 7x7SPAD-to-FMC	PX24	J9

PC requirements

PC interface	USB 3.0 SuperSpeed
PC requirements	min. 1.5 GHz CPU clock, min. 8 GB RAM memory (suggested >=64 GB), SSD hard disk
Operating system	Linux (native) / Windows (ported)