Development of VHDL Code for the DAQ and Monitoring Boards of the Velo Subdtector of the LHCb Experiment

The Velo subdetector is the main tracking and vertex finding detector based on silicon strip sensors. The monitoring boards are the 'temperature board' and the 'low voltage interlock board' aimed at measuring temperature of the sensors and protect them against overheating. The main development consists on an SPI slave to interface the FPGA user registers to the Atmel processor on the ELMB mezzanine. For the DAQ board ('TELLI') the online data algorithms are the pedestal tracking and subtraction, cross-talk filtration, correlated noise suppression, reordering of data, cluster finding and formatting.