@inproceedings{a6cb111211be49b78c3ba05605efdae5,
title = "CCAT-prime: RFSoC based readout for frequency multiplexed kinetic inductance detectors",
abstract = "The Prime-Cam instrument on the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) is expected to be the largest deployment of millimeter and submillimeter sensitive kinetic inductance detectors to date. To read out these arrays efficiently, a microwave frequency multiplexed readout has been designed to run on the Xilinx Radio Frequency System on a Chip (RFSoC). The RFSoC has dramatically improved every category of size, weight, power, cost, and bandwidth over the previous generation readout systems. We describe a baseline firmware design which can read out four independent RF networks each with 500 MHz of bandwidth and 1000 detectors for a1/430 W. The overall readout architecture is a combination of hardware, gateware/firmware, software, and network design. The requirements of the readout are driven by the 850 GHz instrument module of the seven-module Prime-Cam instrument. These requirements along with other constraints which have led to critical design choices are highlighted. Preliminary measurements of the system phase noise and dynamic range are presented.",
keywords = "CCAT-prime, MKID, RFSoC, frequency multiplexed, kinetic inductance",
author = "Sinclair, {Adrian K.} and Stephenson, {Ryan C.} and Roberson, {Cody A.} and Weeks, {Eric L.} and James Burgoyne and Huber, {Anthony I.} and Mauskopf, {Philip M.} and Chapman, {Scott C.} and Austermann, {Jason E.} and Choi, {Steve K.} and Duell, {Cody J.} and Michel Fich and Groppi, {Christopher E.} and Zachary Huber and Niemack, {Michael D.} and Thomas Nikola and Rossi, {Kayla M.} and Adhitya Sriram and Stacey, {Gordon J.} and Erik Szakiel and Joel Tsuchitori and Vavagiakis, {Eve M.} and Wheeler, {Jordan D.}",
note = "Funding Information: The CCAT-prime project, FYST and Prime-Cam instrument have been supported by generous contributions from the Fred M. Young, Jr. Charitable Trust, Cornell University, and the Canada Foundation for Innovation and the Provinces of Ontario, Alberta, and British Columbia. The construction of the FYST telescope was supported by the Gro{\ss}ger{\"a}te-Programm of the German Science Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) under grant INST 216/733-1 FUGG, as well as funding from Universit{\"a}t zu K{\"o}ln, Universit{\"a}t Bonn and the Max Planck Institut f{\"u}r Astrophysik, Garching. Prime-Cam: The construction of EoR-Spec is supported by NSF grant AST-2009767. The construction of the 350 GHz instrument module for Prime-Cam is supported by NSF grant AST-2117631. Chai: The CHAI instrument is supported by DFG grant CRC 956/3, project ID 184018867 as well as funding from Universit{\"a}t zu K{\"o}ln. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022 SPIE.; Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy XI 2022 ; Conference date: 17-07-2022 Through 22-07-2022",
year = "2022",
doi = "10.1117/12.2629722",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
publisher = "SPIE",
editor = "Jonas Zmuidzinas and Jian-Rong Gao",
booktitle = "Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy XI",
}