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.
A count in September 2013 showed 41 different users of these modules.
Known users
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CERN
- ATLAS Pixel IBL alternative readout concept prototyping (T.Heim, March 2013)
- B-train system with own ADC design, TE-MSC
- July 2011: received card with ADC, Oberson Daniel
- September 2012: use SPEC with own FMC mezzanine FMC ADC 2M 18b 2ch DAC 500k 20b 1ch
- CLIC Interlock System study, MPE-EP (April 2012, use with ADC and WR, Patrice Nouvel)
- LHC Instability Trigger Distribution project - LIST (T.Wlostowski, July 2014)
- Radiation protection
- Using specific FMC current measurement card with a measuring range from 2.5fA to 2.5uA with a resolution in the lowest range of 1fA (over 60s) and an output data rate of 100ms. (DGS-RP, N.Cardines, Oct.2013)
- Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory
(LNLS)
- RF distribution using White Rabbit at Sirius
- Pulse generation with programmable delay
- CNGS
- Timing for neutrino measurements (May 2012)
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ALBA - Cells
- Use with a new electrometer. Develop a new FMC card with a 4-channels ADC. (X.Serra, Dec.2013)
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Creotech
- Readout of GEM detectors (May 2011)
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Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (G.
Naylor, B.Huang, Nov.2013)
- Phase detection measurement on a 40MHz IF signal. Interferometry.
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DLR (German Aerospace Center, Institute
for Technical Physics)
- Laser ranging to space-debris objects (July 2014)
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GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung
(GSI)
- WhiteRabbit timing network development for use in FAIR accelerator Timing (Feb 2013)
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Warsaw University of Technology (WUT)
- WhiteRabbit timing network development (May 2011)
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Nikhef
- WhiteRabbit timing network development (May 2011)
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Radboud University of Nijmegen (RUN)
- DSP prototype for Lunar Radio eXplorer (LRX) (H.Pourshaghaghi, Sept.2013)
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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. See also WR users.
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HV Sistemas S.L..
- Satellite TM/TC (TeleMetry/TeleCommand) and science data communications subsystems.
Potential users
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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)
- ISOTDAQ - international school of trigger and data acquisition (PH-ESE, M.Joos, May 2014)
- DESY
- midsize cosmic-ray experiment (R. Wischnewski, Jan 2012)
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ITER
- CODAC: DAQ board for ITER fast controllers (likely in PXI or PXIe version of SPEC)
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National Instruments
- WhiteRabbit timing network development (May 2011)
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NICA Nuclotron-based Ion Collider fAcility
in JINR, Dubna
- AFI Electronics, S.Basylev, Sep 2011)
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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 Likely develop own ADC too: fmc-adc-25m14b1ch. (September 2012).
Erik van der Bij - 3 July 2014