The power converters at CERN deliver a broad range of complex functionalities to assure the correct magnetic field throughout the beam acceleration cycle. The power converter controls are composed of remotely programmable electronics, however such flexibility is also vulnerable to regression that requires thorough testing. Further, testing requires a significant investment in infrastructure to...
In recent years, some minor issues were observed during operation of CMS Muon specific TM7 blade-boards, which are data concentrators for the hit-data from Drift-Tube chambers. These blade-boards reside in the uTCA crates in the service cavern of CMS. Talk presents a recently developed test-board, which is used as an inexpensive substitution of TM7. The developed test-board implements a Module...
The European XFEL facility delivers bunches of high brilliance pulses with a unique time structure, which requires a specially designed photon detectors for taking and recording the high quality scientific data. The Adaptive Gain Integrating Pixel Detector (AGIPD) is a hybrid pixel X-ray detector developed to cope with crucial requirements like 4.5 MHz frame rate and a dynamic range of...
PANDORE is the environmental box that is going to be used for the quality control (QC) of loaded local supports of the ATLAS ITk Pixel Outer Barrel (OB) at LAPP. First PANDORE, its interlock system, diphasic CO2 cooling station, and data acquisition system are described. Subsequently, the results of the qualification tests are shown. Given the complexity of the OB system, several other loading...
The Inner Tracker silicon strip detector (ITk Strips) is a part of the ATLAS upgrade for the HL-LHC. It employs a parallel powering scheme for the high voltage sensor bias and the low voltage to power readout ASIC’s. This design requires on-module DCDC conversion and high voltage switching. These are implemented on the Powerboard using a buck converter (bPOL12V) to drop the low voltage, a...
The SMX chip is a front-end ASIC dedicated for the readout of STS and MUCH detectors in the CBM experiment.
The production of the ASIC and the front-end boards based on it is just being started and requires thorough testing to assure the quality.
The paper describes the SMX tester based on a standard commercial Artix-7 FPGA module with an additional simple baseboard.
In the standalone...
In the context of the second phase of the CMS Outer Tracker upgrade two complementary systems for the testing of the service hybrids for two-sided silicon strip modules are presented. To enable prototype testing and long term active thermal cycling during series production a dedicated test board for stand-alone operation has been produced. In addition, a test card compatible with a production...
