Users of the Simple PCIe FMC carrier (SPEC)¶

The SPEC card can be used in many ways. If you use the cards, please inform me about it.

Known users¶

• CERN
  • B-train system with own ADC design, TE-MSC (July 2011, received card with ADC, Oberson Daniel)
  • ATLAS Pixel IBL alternative readout concept prototyping (T.Heim, Feb 2012)
  • CLIC Interlock System study, MPE-EP (April 2012, use with ADC and WR, Patrice Nouvel)
• CNGS
  • Timing for neutrino measurements (May 2012)
• Creotech
  • Readout of GEM detectors (May 2011)
• GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung
  • WhiteRabbit timing network development for possible use in FAIR accelerator Timing (May 2011)
• Warsaw University of Technology
  • WhiteRabbit timing network development (May 2011)
• Nikhef
  • WhiteRabbit timing network development (May 2011)
• Tsinghua University, China (Feb 2011)
  • WhiteRabbit in Timing system of LHAASO (Large High Altitude Air Shower Observation) project Deploying 10,000 detectors over 1 square km at Tibet.
• HV Sistemas S.L..
  • Satellite TM/TC (TeleMetry/TeleCommand) and science data communications subsystems.

Potential users¶

• CERN
  • Controller card for accelerator control (with ADC mezzanine) (May 2011)
  • PAL: POPS Analog link Converter. Needs FMC with two or four 8 Mbps fibre-optic connectors like EDA-01956. (TE-EPC, Q.King, Jun 2011)
  • B-train (TE-MSC, D.Giloteaux, Oct 2011)
• DESY
  • midsize cosmic-ray experiment (R. Wischnewski, Jan 2012)
• ITER
  • CODAC: DAQ board for ITER fast controllers (likely in PXI or PXIe version of SPEC)
• National Instruments
  • WhiteRabbit timing network development (May 2011)
• NICA Nuclotron-based Ion Collider fAcility in JINR, Dubna
  • AFI Electronics, S.Basylev, Sep 2011)
• Peking University, China, School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science
  • DAQ system for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
• Other
  • Software Defined Radio with commercial RF transceiver (hobby project) (Jan 2012)
  • Measurement system with 100 fmc-adc-100m14b4cha read out via White Rabbit (Jan 2012)

Users of CERN SPEC boards¶

• File showing CERN boards that are in use

Erik van der Bij - 12 April 2012