Lesma, R. MartinAlessio, F.Barbosa, J.Baron, S.Caplan, C.Leitao, P.Pecoraro, C.Porret, D.Wyllie, K.2017-05-012017-05-012017-05-01201710.1088/1748-0221/12/02/C02020https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/136949WOS:000397825800020The Versatile Link Demonstrator Board (VLDB) is the evaluation kit for the radiation-hard Optical Link ecosystem, which provides a 4.8 Gbps data transfer link for communication between front-end (FE) and back-end (BE) of the High Energy Physics experiments. It gathers the Versatile link main radiation-hard custom Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) and modules: GBTx, GBT-SCA and VTRx/VTTx plus the FeastMP, a radiation-hard in-house designed DC-DC converter. This board is the first design allowing system-level tests of the Link with a complete interconnection of the constitutive components, allowing data acquisition, control and monitoring of FE devices with the GBT-SCA pair.Detector control systems (detector and experiment monitoring and slow-control systems, architecture, hardware, algorithms, databases)Digital electronic circuitsRadiation-hard electronicstext::journal::journal article::research article