CERN Electronics

This page describes helpful entry points at CERN for electronics engineering issues. Please let me know if you have any other interesting entries. Also, don't hesitate to give me some feedback on the usefulness of those pages. - Erik

Subjects

• EMC
• Simulation
• Testing
• Reliability
• Measurement systems
• Power electronics
• Buses
• Microprocessors
• FPGAs
• High-speed optical links
• High-voltage
• Radiation hard components
• Production of electronics
• Training
• Books, magazines & datasheets

EMC (Electromagnetic Complicance)

ATLAS EMC Policy https://edms.cern.ch/file/476490/1/ATLAS-EMC-POLICY.pdf EMC Web http://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/FRONTEND/EMC/ EMC in ATLAS: what has been done (Feb 2005) CMS EMC Web: http://cms-emc.web.cern.ch/cms-emc/default.html Fritz Szoncso - SC/GS http://wwwhephy.oeaw.ac.at/fritz/emc/ EMC @ CERN: http://cern.ch/szoncso/EMC (not updated since 2002) Spot-check service for EMC compliance TÜV Product Service (edn 10/08)

Simulation

Thermal simulation Michele Battistin TS-CV (bulletin 32-33/2005, 1/06) CFD-Studies, example of simulation of LHCb board, other examples Thermal simulation with link between HFSS and ANSYS Erk Jensen AB-RF (8/05) AHDL to Verilog conversion Marian Krivda, João Bento (c-e 10/07)

Testing

Bed of Nails Hints and production of bed of nails, Betty Magnin TS/DEM (02/05) Power users: Eva Calvo Giraldo, Jean Jacques Savioz, AB/BDI - (01/05) Photos of testbed Climatic Chamber For burn-in or ageing tests of equipments free rental from PH-ESS Other ATLAS - Shaun Roe PH/ADE (10/08) CMS - Alan Honma PH/CMX (10/08) Thermal camera Thermal imaging of any device, Michele Battistin TS/CV (8/05) Thermal imaging of electrical installations, PCBs etc, Sven de Man - AB/ABP (08/05) Thermal imaging, simpler device, Thomas Zickler AT/MEL (04/06) Keithley Low Level Measurements Handbook (pdf, CERN library copy)

Reliability

Measurement systems

LabView Labview services (IT-CO-SI) Readout oscilloscope via Ethernet Thilo Pauly (PH-ATR 02/2005, cern-elec)

Power electronics

Power converters for accelerators Power Converter Group (AB-PO) Simulation with Simplorer Federico Chiusano (c-e, AT/MTM), Daniel Calcoen (c-e, AB/PO-CC), Ivan Hruska (c-e, PH/UTA) (08/05) TI Power Rulers Calculation rulers with tables, diagrams and other data for hardware designers (10/08)

Buses

PCI

• PCI and PCI-X core for Altera
  • Stefan Haas (2004), Csaba Soos (2004)
• PCI core for Actel
• CERN PCI Device ID distribution
  •  list of IDs of CERN PCI designs, PH/ESS (07/04)

USB

• CERN USB Device ID distribution
  •  list of IDs of CERN USB designs, PH/ESS (07/04)
• USB 2.0 Xilinx interface, Sune Wolff, IT/CO (6/06)

VME

• Re-usable VME bus interface core
  • David Dominguez (AB-CO-HT) (09/05)
• Programming FPGA (Xilinx) via JTAG via VME
  • David Dominguez (AB-CO-HT) (c-e 14/3/05)
• VME64x
  • Benjamin Todd, (AB-CO-IN) (c-e 8/05)
• VME in CMS
  • Christoph Schwick (PH-CMD 8/05)
• CERN VME64x Device ID distribution
  •  list of IDs of CERN VME64x designs, PH/ESS (07/04)

JTAG

• Programming FPGA (Xilinx) via JTAG via VME
  • David Dominguez (AB-CO-HT) (c-e 14/3/05)
• Ground the TRST* pin now. NASA Office of Logic Design Note (4/06)

BLUETOOTH

• Bluetooth wireless
  • Helmut Wendler (PH-DT1) (c-e 1/8/06)

WorldFIP

• WorldFIP
  • Eva Calvo (AB-BDI-EM1) (c-e 31/7/06)

I2C, SPI

• Analyser and debug modules, also simple pattern generator
  • Byte Paradigm company (10/07)

Microprocessors

• PIC (PIC 16F672)
  • Andrew Mark Campbell-Boross (AB-BDI) (c-e 8/05)
• Altera Processor IP Core (08/05)

FPGAs

• Xilinx Design-resources for High Speed Designs presentation (3/05)
• Programming FPGA (Xilinx) via JTAG via VME
  • David Dominguez (AB-CO-HT) (c-e 14/3/05)
• Programming Alteras via remote PC
  • Manfred Muecke (PH-ED-DTB) (c-e 7/05)
• VHDL Documentation program VHDLDOC
  • Christophe Schwick (PH-CMD) (9/00)
• FPGAs in Space (1/06)
  • NASA Office of Logic Design
  • Military and Aerospace Programmable Logic Device (MAPLD) International Conference,  2005 proceedings
• Search cern-electronics archive

High-speed optical links

S-LINK (2.0/2.5 Gbps) - Stefan Haas (PH-ATE 2005) CMS DCC (6 times 12-channel 1 Gbps on 9U VME) - Jose Carlos Rasteiro da Silva (PH-UCM 2005)

High-voltage

• Please let me know if you have some experience -  Erik

Radiation hard components

• CERN-LHCC RD49 Project (2/06)
• Search CERNs website on "radiation tolerant" (2/06)
• National semiconductor high-reliability components (2/06)
• NASA Office of Logic Design (4/06)

Production

• Development of Electronic Modules Group (TS-DEM)
• CERN's policy on cleaning of solder flux: always clean boards (09/05).
  • French mail explaining reasons (original). English translation
• CERN Safety Commission notes on halogen-free PCBs
  • Safety considerations for the purchase of Printed Circuit Boards - Memo - Presentation
  • Safety Instruction IS 41: The use of plastic and other non-metallic materials at CERN with respect to fire safety and radiation resistance - English - French
• CERN training on RoHS regulation and consequences - half-day course description - slides

Training

HR/PMD CERN Technical Training program - Electronics General courses for for people who are not electronics specialists ELEC-2002: Electronics in High-Energy Physics ELEC-2005: Electronics in High-Energy Physics Introduction to Electronics - C. de la Taille (Laboratoire de l'Accelerateur Lineaire). Summer student lecture with videos, focused on analog electronics for detector readout. (2005) Basic VLSI course - PH/MIC (2003) Cours Amplificateurs Operationnels , Jérôme Baudot (4/06)

Books, magazines & datasheets

CERN Library search on electronics related keywords (circuit signal electronics electricity instruments high-speed) Real books only Real books and eBooks (don't hesitate to reserve eBooks for a longer period) Other library searches on reliability, power, analog and dsp Search in IEEE publications: IEEE Xplore Magazines General EETimes Europe PCB Fabrication Circuit World - Scientific Journal CircuiTree - PCB industry RF High Frequency Electronics Datasheets: datasheetcatalog.com