Embedded Software of the KM3NeT Central Logic Board
Abstract
The KM3NeT Collaboration is building and operating two deep sea neutrino telescopes at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea. The telescopes consist of latices of photomultiplier tubes housed in pressure-resistant glass spheres, called digital optical modules and arranged in vertical detection units. The two main scientific goals are the determination of the neutrino mass ordering and the discovery and observation of high-energy neutrino sources in the Universe. Neutrinos are detected via the Cherenkov light, which is induced by charged particles originated in neutrino interactions. The photomultiplier tubes convert the Cherenkov light into electrical signals that are acquired and timestamped by the acquisition electronics. Each optical module houses the acquisition electronics for collecting and timestamping the photomultiplier signals with one nanosecond accuracy. Once finished, the two telescopes will have installed more than six thousand optical acquisition nodes, completing one of the more complex networks in the world in terms of operation and synchronization. The embedded software running in the acquisition nodes has been designed to provide a framework that will operate with different hardware versions and functionalities. The hardware will not be accessible once in operation, which complicates the embedded software architecture. The embedded software provides a set of tools to facilitate remote manageability of the deployed hardware, including safe reconfiguration of the firmware. This paper presents the architecture and the techniques, methods and implementation of the embedded software running in the acquisition nodes of the KM3NeT neutrino telescopes.
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@article{arxiv.2308.01032,
title = {Embedded Software of the KM3NeT Central Logic Board},
author = {S. Aiello and A. Albert and S. Alves Garre and Z. Aly and A. Ambrosone and F. Ameli and M. Andre and E. Androutsou and M. Anghinolfi and M. Anguita and L. Aphecetche and M. Ardid and S. Ardid and H. Atmani and J. Aublin and C. Bagatelas and L. Bailly-Salins and Z. Bardačová and B. Baret and S. Basegmez du Pree and Y. Becherini and M. Bendahman and F. Benfenati and M. Benhassi and D. M. Benoit and E. Berbee and V. Bertin and V. van Beveren and S. Biagi and M. Boettcher and J. Boumaaza and M. Bouta and M. Bouwhuis and C. Bozzaa and R. M. Bozza and H. Brânzaşa and F. Bretaudeau and R. Bruijn and J. Brunner and R. Bruno and E. Buisa and R. Buompane and J. Busto and B. Caiffi and D. Calvo and S. Campion and A. Capone and F. Carenini and V. Carretero and T. Cartraud and P. Castaldia and V. Cecchini and S. Celli and L. Ceris and M. Chabab and M. Chadolia and A. Chen and S. Cherubini and T. Chiarusi and M. Circella and R. Cocimano and J. A. B. Coelho and A. Coleiro and R. Coniglione and P. Coyle and A. Creusot and A. Cruza and G. Cuttone and R. Dallier and Y. Darrasa and A. De Beneditti and B. De Martino and V. Decoene and R. Del Burgo and L. S. Di Mauro and I. Di Palma and A. F. Díaz and D. Diego-Tortosa and C. Distefano and A. Domia and C. Donzaud and D. Dornic and M. Dörra and E. Drakopoulou and D. Drouhin and R. Dvornický and T. Eberla and E. Eckerov\' and A. Eddymaoui and T. van Eeden and M. Effa and D. van Eijk and I. El Bojaddaini and S. El Hedri and A. Enzenhöfer and G. Ferrara and M. D. Filipović and F. Filippini and L. A. Fusco and O. Gabella and J. Gabriela and S. Gagliardini and T. Gala and J. García Méndez and A. Garcia Soto and C. Gatius Oliver and N. Geißelbrecht and H. Ghaddari and L. Gialanella and B. K. Gibson and E. Giorgio and A. Girardi and I. Goos and D. Goupilliere and S. R. Gozzinic and R. Gracia and K. Graf and C. Guidia and B. Guillon and M. Gutiérrez and H. van Haren and A. Heijboer and A. Hekalo and L. Hennig and J. J. Hernández-Rey and F. Huang and W. Idrissi Ibnsalih and G. Illuminati and C. W. Jamesa and P. Jansweijer and M. de Jongat and P. de Jong and B. J. Jung and P. Kalaczyński and O. Kalekin and U. F. Katz and N. R. Khan Chowdhury and A. Khatun and G. Kistauri and C. Kopper and A. Kouchner and V. Kulikovskiy and R. Kvatadzea and M. Labalme and R. Lahmann and G. Larosa and C. Lastoria and A. Lazo and S. Le Stum and G. Lehaut and E. Leonora and N. Lessing and G. Levi and M. Lindsey Clark and F. Longhitano and J. Majumdar and L. Malerba and F. Mamedov and J. Mańczakc and A. Manfred and M. Marconi and A. Margiott and A. Marinelli and C. Markou and L. Martin and J. A. Martínez-Mora and F. Marzaioli and M. Mastrodicasa and S. Mastroianni and S. Miccichè and G. Miele and P. Migliozzi and E. Migneco and S. Minutoli and M. L. Mitsou and C. M. Mollo and L. Morales-Gallegos and C. Morley-Wonga and A. Mosbruggera and A. Moussa and I. Mozun Mateo and R. Muller and M. R. Musone and M. Musumeci and L. Nauta and S. Navas and A. Nayerhoda and C. A. Nicola and B. Nkosi and B. Ó Fearraigha and V. Oliviero and A. Orlando and E. Oukach and J. Palacios González and G. Papalashvilia and E. J. Pastor Gomez and A. M. Păun and G. E. Păvălaş and S. Peña Martínez and M. Perrin-Terrind and J. Perronnel and V. Pestela and R. Pestes and P. Piattelli and C. Poirè and V. Popa and T. Pradier and S. Pulvirenti and G. Quéméner and C. Quiroz and U. Rahaman and N. Randazzo and S. Razzaqueb and I. C. Rea and D. Real and S. Reck and G. Riccobene and J. Robinson and A. Romanova and A. Saina and F. Salesa Greus and D. F. E. Samtleben and A. Sánchez Losa and M. Sanguineti and C. Santonastaso and D. Santonocito and P. Sapienza and Y. Scarpetta and J. Schnabel and M. F. Schneider and J. Schumann and H. M. Schutte and J. Seneca and B. Setter and I. Sgura and R. Shanidze and Y. Shitov and F. Šimkovic and A. Simonelli and A. Sinopoulou and M. V. Smirnov and B. Spisso and M. Spurio and D. Stavropoulos and I. Štekl and M. Taiuti and Y. Tayalati and H. Tedjditi and H. Thiersen and I. Tosta e Melo and B. Trocme and S. Tsagkli and V. Tsourapis and E. Tzamariudaki and A. Vacheret and V. Valsecchi and V. Van Elewyck G. Vannoye and G. Vasileiadisa and F. Vazquez de Sola and C. Verilhac and A. Veutro and S. Viola and D. Vivolo and H. Warnhofer and J. Wilmsb and E. de Wolf and H. Yepes-Ramirez and G. Zarpapis and S. Zavatarelli and A. Zegarelli and D. Zito and J. D. Zornoza and J. Zúñiga and N. Zywucka},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.01032},
year = {2023}
}