Drivers and Software for MicroTCA.4

The MicroTCA.4 crate standard provides a powerful electronic platform for digital and analogue signal processing.Besides excellent hardware modularity, it is the software reliability and flexibility as well as the easy integration into existing Software infrastructures that will drive the widespread adoption of the new standard. The DESY MicroTCA.4 User Tool Kit (MTCA4U) comprises three main components: A Linux device driver, a C++ API for accessing the MicroTCA. 4 devices and a control system interface layer. Themain focus of the tool kit is flexibility to enable fast development. The universal, expandable PCIexpress driver and a register mapping library allow out of the box Operation of all MicroTCA.4 devices which carry firmware developed with the DESY FPGA board support package. The controlsystem adapter provides callback functions to decouple the application code from the middleware layer. Like this the same business logic can be used at different facilities without further modification