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SoC Interest Group

This is the twiki page of the Interest Group for "System-on-Chip":

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• Discourse - Discussion Forum: SystemOnChip Discourse

Results of the SoM survey NEW!

You can the summary report of the results of the SoM workshop here.

SoC Workshops

• 3rd SoC Workshop, 2-6 October 2023, CERN NEW!
• 2nd SoC Workshop, 7-11 June 2021, CERN
• 1st SoC Workshop, 12-14 June 2019, CERN

SoC Interest Group Meetings

• 23-NOV-2022
• 03-MAY-2022
• 23-NOV-2021
• 16-FEB-2021
• 06-OCT-2020
• 29-APR-2020
• 01-JUL-2020

SoC Organising Committee

The the SoC workshops and the meetings of the interest group are organised by the SoC Organising Committee:

• Hamza Boukabache (CERN), CERN-HSE Radio Protection
• Adrian Byszuk (CERN), CERN-SY Electrical Power Converters
• Marc Dobson (CERN), CMS TDAQ SysAdmin
• Revital Kopeliansky (Indiana University), ATLAS TDAQ Phase-2 deputy TC and DCS coordination
• Frans Meijers (CERN), CMS DAQ
• Diana Scannicchio (University of California, Irvine), ATLAS TDAQ SysAdmin
• Ralf Spiwoks (CERN), CERN-EP Electronics Systems for Experiments and ATLAS L1CT (chair)

SoC Overview Talks

• ACES 2020: SoC: Overview and Outlook (R. Spiwoks)
• TWEPP 2019: Using advanced SoCs at the CERN experiments and accelerator (M. Dobson)
• ACES 2018: Overview of use of SoC (R. Spiwoks)

CentOS on Zynq SoC or Zynq Ultrascale+ MPSoC

• Building/installing a CentOS root file system: CentOSForZynqMP. For CentOS8: CMS DAQ: CentOS8 rootfs.
• Cross-compiling with a CentOS root file system: CrossCompileWithCentOS
• Setting up a crash kernel: CMS DAQ: CentOS8 crash kernel
• Using the IPMC Serial Payload Interface in U-Boot: u-boot-sipl git repository
• ATLAS MUCTPI: instructions to build and deploy CentOS

Building the boot files for a Zynq Ultrascale+ MPSoC using PetaLinux

• Building the boot files for Kria on a Kria baseboard: KriaPetaLinux

Tutorials on the use of Yocto and other tools

• A tutorial on "How to get started with Yocto": GettingStartedWithYocto
• A tutorial on "How to prepare a boot bin file (FSBL)": PreparingBootBinFile
• A tutorial on "How to prepare a device tree blob (DTB)": PreparingDeviceTreeBlob

Projects using Yocto/OpenEmbedded frame work

• ATLAS L1Calo: meta-l1calo: L1Calo's layer
• ATLAS L1Calo: ironman: gFEX's on-board python monitoring infrastructure
• Caribou Pixel Readout System: meta-caribou: Caribou's layer

Other talks about SoCs and work on them

• ATLAS gFEX: I2C Communications (G. Stark)
• ATLAS gFEX: Understanding Layers (G. Stark)
• ATLAS gFEX: gFEX FDR Firmware review (G. Stark)
• Open-source ZYNQ-IPMC: xTCA Interest Group presentation (M. Vicente)
• Zynq-based Run Control for the ATLAS MUCTPI Upgrade: xTCA Interest Group presentation (R. Spiwoks)