Caribou Developers Meeting

Tuesday 2 Sept 2025, 16:00 → 17:30 Europe/Zurich

Younes Otarid (CERN)

16:00 → 16:10 General News

Speaker: Younes Otarid (CERN)

16:10 → 16:35 Hardware

Speakers: Eric Buschmann (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)), Ryan St-Jean (Carleton University (CA)), Shaochun Tang (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)), Tomas Vanat (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE)), Younes Otarid (CERN)

Eric:

• Test boards arrived last week
• Some issues with the board:
  
  • Issues with polarised capacitors mounted in the wrong direction
  • Need to just configuration of ADC
  • Need to fix direction of voltage regulation
• Few things missing on the software side
  • Fix readout of slow ADC 

 

Changbum: 

• Starting USB and python program software
• Simulation for the FPGA
• Preparing to verify test-board

 

Thomas:

• Ryan is almost done with schematics and block diagrams

16:35 → 17:00 Firmware

Speakers: Eric Buschmann (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)), Tomas Vanat (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE)), Younes Otarid (CERN)

17:00 → 17:25 Software - OS

Speakers: Eric Buschmann (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)), Mathieu Benoit (Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)), Simon Spannagel (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE)), Younes Otarid (CERN)

17:25 → 17:30 AOB