PCIe40 temperature protection system

PCIe40 is a high-throughput data-acquisition card based on PCI Express that is currently under development for the next upgrade of the LHCb experiment readout system. As part of this development, SMBus is intended to be used as a lightweight, out-of-band protocol to monitor the health of each data acquisition board. Starting from a simple prototype, the student will work on enabling SMBus communication between a COTS linux host and various on-board sensors, on top of existing linux facilities.