Firmware development for VMM testing

The collaboration has been carried out within the ATLAS Detector Systems area, in the Electronics Department for the muon spectrometer. This includes the team from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). The project involves the firmware development of the FPGAs for the configuration of the readout chip used in the detector (known as VMM). Some changes in the firmware were needed in order to check the configuration was correctly sent and the chip configured. The aim of this report is to describe the project in detail, how it has been developed and which problems have been encountered during the process.