OpenIPMC is a free open source Intelligent Platform Management Controller (IPMC) for AdvancedTCA® boards following the PICMG 3.0 standard.

OpenIPMC is written in C as a platform-independent source, designed to run ontop of the FreeRTOS real-time operating system, such that it can be easily ported the many embedded microcontroller architectures that support FreeRTOS. In the OpenIPMC source code, callbacks and other helper functions allow to flexibly customize the implementation of the IOs and payload interfaces, easing the porting to new hardware architectures.

Documentation

This project and its documentation are under development. Doxygen pages can be found here

Project Authors

• André Cascadan (UNESP)
• Bruno Casu (FEI)
• Luigi Calligaris (UNESP)

This project started in 2019 at the Center for Scientific Computing of the São Paulo State University (NCC-UNESP, Brazil) as a contribution from SPRACE to the CMS Tracker Phase2 Upgrade (CERN).

Project Collaborators

• Alison Franca Queiroz da Costa (UNESP)
• Lucas Arruda Ramalho (UNEMAT)
• Luis Ardila Perez (KIT)
• Oliver Sander (KIT)

Acknowledgment

We acknowledge the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology - KIT for supporting our project by providing equipment, development kits, and a complete ATCA environment for testing this project on the Serenity ATCA board (Imperial College).

Related Publications

• T .C. Paiva (2016). Remote development environment with reconfigurable components in the Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture context. (Master thesis) São Paulo State University, Brazil
• L. A. Ramalho et al., "Development of an Intelligent Platform Management controller for the Pulsar IIb," 2015 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC), San Diego, CA, 2015, pp. 1-2.
• M. Vaz, A.M. Cascadan, V.F. Ferreira, T. Paiva, L.A. Ramalho, A.A. Shinoda. “A Framework for Development and Test of xTCA Modules With FPGA Based Systems for Particle Detectors”, International Workshop on Personal Computers and Particle Accelerator Controls (11th), Campinas, Brazil, 2016

License

OpenIPMC is Copyright 2018-2021 of André Cascadan, Bruno Casu, Luigi Calligaris. OpenIPMC is released under the Mozilla Public License version 2.0. Please refer to the LICENSE document included in this repository.