CRaTeBo: a high-speed, radiation-tolerant and versatile testing platform for FPGA radiation qualification for high-energy particle accelerator applications

Abstract

The CHARM Radiation Tolerant FPGA Tester Board (CRaTeBo) is a FPGA testing platform for the CERN High-energy Accelerator (CHARM) irradiation facility. It is meant to ease the radiation testing of FPGA-based systems by providing users with a radiation-tolerant carrier card featuring an FPGA interface, a high-speed communication interface, a flexible power supply, and an HPC-FMC connector for additional front-end electronics. It is foreseen to be a permanent installation in the CHARM facility at CERN, giving users the possibility to carry out radiation tests of their system with minimum effort on the test setup development.