19–24 May 2024
Music City Center
US/Central timezone

Direct RF sampling based LLRF control system for C-band linear accelerator

MOCN2
20 May 2024, 15:20
20m
Room 104 (Music City Center)

Room 104

Music City Center

201 Rep. John Lewis Way S, Nashville, TN 37203, USA

Speaker

Chao Liu (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

Description

Low Level RF (LLRF) control systems of linear accelerators (LINACs) are typically implemented with heterodyne based architectures, which have complex analog RF mixers for up and down conversion. The Gen 3 RF System-on-Chip (RFSoC) device from AMD Xilinx integrates data converters with maximum RF frequency of 6 GHz. That enables direct RF sampling of C-band LLRF signal typically operated at 5.712 GHz without RF mixers, which can significantly simplify the system architecture. The data converters sample RF signals in higher order Nyquist zones and then up or down converted digitally by the integrated data path. The closed-loop feedback control firmware implemented in FPGA integrated in RFSoC can process the baseband signal from the ADC data path and calculate the updated phase and amplitude to be up-mixed by the DAC data path. We have developed an LLRF control RFSoC platform, which targets Cool Copper Collider (C3) and other C or S band LINAC research and development projects. In this paper, the architecture of the platform and the test results for some of the key performance parameters, such as phase and amplitude stability with our custom solid-state amplifier, will be described.

Region represented North America
Paper preparation format LaTeX

Primary author

Chao Liu (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

Co-authors

Bo Hong (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Larry Ruckman (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Ryan Herbst (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Emilio Nanni (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

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