Caribou Developers Meeting

Tuesday 14 May 2024, 16:00 → 17:30 Europe/Zurich

Younes Otarid (CERN)

1 General news

Speaker: Younes Otarid (CERN)

2 Design changes, prototype testing, and production plans of the CaR board v1.5

Speakers: Eric Buschmann (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)), Younes Otarid (CERN)

caribou_v1_5_2024-05-14.pdf

caribou_v1_5_2024-05-14.pptx

• Will look into getting better resistors for current source
• Check with production companies:
  • If basic PCB electrical test is included
  • To make sure that they reajust the layer stack to match impendances
  • Could eventually request more specific functional testing. But cost will drastically increase.
• Safiral and SoftCom state that production can only start if the order is fully payed. Need to check with production companies and purchasing office how to solve the situation.
• Request quotation for 31 pieces + how many board per panel

3 Architecture and development workflow of the new Caribou (Boreal) firmware

Speaker: Younes Otarid (CERN)

yotarid_boreal_firmware.pdf

4 Feedback from FNAL on support for ZCU102 evaluation board

Speaker: Adam Quinn

Spacely Project.pdf

Spacely Project.pptx

5 Experience with building OS

Speaker: Mathieu Benoit (Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL))

6 AOB

Proposed short-term (2024-2026) research goals for DRD3-WG5 on characterisation techniques, facilities:

- Extension of the TPA-TCT to wide-band semiconductor characterization (SiC & Diamond) & use of spatial light modulation for optimization of the spatial resolution

- Upgrade Caribou DAQ hardware, firmware and software to advanced Ultrascale+ FPGA platform.

- Efficient exploitation of common infrastructure (such as TPA-TCT and Caribou): Promoting awareness within the community during the DRD3 workshops, dedicated showcase of use and subsidizing access fees or providing grants for specific projects 

-  Organizing mini-workshops for training on the use of characterization techniques and DAQ tools