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CERN Electronics
This page describes helpful entry points at CERN for electronics engineering issues. Please let me know if you have any other interesting entries. Also, don't hesitate to give me some feedback on the usefulness of those pages. - Erik

Subjects

EMC Simulation Testing Reliability Measurement systems Power electronics Buses Microprocessors FPGAs High-speed optical links High-voltage Radiation hard components Production of electronics

Training Books, magazines & datasheets

EMC (Electromagnetic Complicance)

ATLAS o EMC Policy https://edms.cern.ch/file/476490/1/ATLASEMC-POLICY.pdf o EMC Web http://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/FRO NTEND/EMC/ o EMC in ATLAS: what has been done (Feb 2005) CMS EMC Web: http://cms-emc.web.cern.ch/cmsemc/default.html Fritz Szoncso - SC/GS o http://wwwhephy.oeaw.ac.at/fritz/emc/ o EMC @ CERN: http://cern.ch/szoncso/EMC (not updated since 2002) Spot-check service for EMC compliance o TV Product Service (edn 10/08)

Simulation

Thermal simulation o Michele Battistin TS-CV (bulletin 32-33/2005, 1/06) o CFD-Studies, example of simulation of LHCb board, other examples Thermal simulation with link between HFSS and ANSYS o Erk Jensen ABRF (8/05) AHDL to Verilog conversion o Marian Krivda,

Joo Bento (ce 10/07)

Testing

Bed of Nails o Hints and production of bed of nails, Betty Magnin TS/DEM (02/05) o Power users: Eva Calvo Giraldo, Jean Jacques Savioz, AB/BDI (01/05) Photos of testbed Climatic Chamber o For burn-in or ageing tests of equipments free rental from PH-ESS o Other ATLAS - Shaun Roe PH/ADE (10/08) CMS - Alan Honma PH/CMX (10/08) Thermal camera o Thermal imaging of any device, Michele Battistin TS/CV (8/05) o Thermal imaging of electrical installations, PCBs etc, Sven de Man AB/ABP (08/05) Thermal imaging, simpler device, Thomas Zickler AT/MEL (04/06) Keithley Low Level Measurements Handbook (pdf, CERN library copy)

Reliability

Climatic Chamber o For burn-in or ageing tests of equipments free rental from PHESS Books o Accelerated reliability engineering : HALT and HASS, Hobbs, Gregg K; CERN library copy HALT - Highly Accelerated Lifetime testing o Hobbs Engineering o HALT Articles Hobbs Engineering Qualmark Ask Erik van der Bij for some discussion

Measurement systems

LabView o Labview services (IT-CO-SI) Readout oscilloscope via Ethernet o Thilo Pauly (PH-ATR 02/2005, cern-elec)

Power electronics

Power converters for accelerators o Power Converter Group (AB-PO) Simulation with Simplorer o Federico Chiusano (c-e, AT/MTM), Daniel Calcoen (c-e, AB/PO-CC), Ivan Hruska (c-e, PH/UTA) (08/05) TI Power Rulers o Calculation rulers with tables, diagrams and other data for hardware designers (10/08)

Buses PCI

PCI and PCI-X core for Altera o Stefan Haas (2004), Csaba Soos (2004) PCI core for Actel CERN PCI Device ID distribution o list of IDs of CERN PCI designs, PH/ESS (07/04)

USB

CERN USB Device ID distribution o list of IDs of CERN USB designs, PH/ESS (07/04) USB 2.0 Xilinx interface, Sune Wolff, IT/CO (6/06)

VME

Re-usable VME bus interface core o David Dominguez (AB-CO-HT) (09/05) Programming FPGA (Xilinx) via JTAG via VME o David Dominguez (AB-CO-HT) (c-e 14/3/05) VME64x o Benjamin Todd, (AB-CO-IN) (c-e 8/05) VME in CMS o Christoph Schwick (PH-CMD 8/05) CERN VME64x Device ID distribution o list of IDs of CERN VME64x designs, PH/ESS (07/04)

JTAG

Programming FPGA (Xilinx) via JTAG via VME o David Dominguez (AB-CO-HT) (c-e 14/3/05) Ground the TRST* pin now. NASA Office of Logic Design Note (4/06)

BLUETOOTH

Bluetooth wireless o Helmut Wendler (PH-DT1) (c-e 1/8/06)

WorldFIP

WorldFIP o Eva Calvo (AB-BDI-EM1) (c-e 31/7/06)

I2C, SPI

Analyser and debug modules, also simple pattern generator o Byte Paradigm company (10/07)

Microprocessors

PIC (PIC 16F672) o Andrew Mark Campbell-Boross (AB-BDI) (c-e 8/05) Altera Processor IP Core (08/05)

FPGAs

Xilinx Design-resources for High Speed Designs presentation (3/05) Programming FPGA (Xilinx) via JTAG via VME o David Dominguez (AB-CO-HT) (c-e 14/3/05) Programming Alteras via remote PC o Manfred Muecke (PH-ED-DTB) (c-e 7/05) VHDL Documentation program VHDLDOC o Christophe Schwick (PH-CMD) (9/00) FPGAs in Space (1/06) o NASA Office of Logic Design o Military and Aerospace Programmable Logic Device (MAPLD) International Conference, 2005 proceedings Search cern-electronics archive

High-speed optical links

S-LINK (2.0/2.5 Gbps) - Stefan Haas (PH-ATE 2005) CMS DCC (6 times 12-channel 1 Gbps on 9U VME) Jose Carlos Rasteiro da Silva (PH-UCM 2005)

High-voltage

Please let me know if you have some experience - Erik

Radiation hard components

CERN-LHCC RD49 Project (2/06) Search CERNs website on "radiation tolerant" (2/06) National semiconductor high-reliability components (2/06) NASA Office of Logic Design (4/06)

Production

Development of Electronic Modules Group (TS-DEM) CERN's policy on cleaning of solder flux: always clean boards (09/05). o French mail explaining reasons (original). English translation CERN Safety Commission notes on halogen-free PCBs o Safety considerations for the purchase of Printed Circuit Boards Memo - Presentation o Safety Instruction IS 41: The use of plastic and other non-metallic materials at CERN with respect to fire safety and radiation resistance English - French CERN training on RoHS regulation and consequences - half-day course description - slides

Training

HR/PMD CERN Technical Training program Electronics General courses for for people who are not electronics specialists o ELEC-2002: Electronics in High-Energy Physics o ELEC-2005: Electronics in High-Energy Physics o Introduction to Electronics - C. de la Taille (Laboratoire de l'Accelerateur Lineaire). Summer student lecture with videos, focused on analog electronics for detector readout. (2005) Basic VLSI course - PH/MIC (2003) Cours Amplificateurs Operationnels , Jrme Baudot (4/06)

Books, magazines & datasheets

CERN Library search on electronics related keywords (circuit signal electronics electricity instruments high-speed) o Real books only o Real books and eBooks (don't hesitate to reserve eBooks for a longer period) Other library searches on reliability, power, analog and dsp Search in IEEE publications: IEEE Xplore Magazines o General EETimes Europe o PCB Fabrication Circuit World - Scientific Journal CircuiTree - PCB industry o RF High Frequency Electronics Datasheets: datasheetcatalog.com

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In the hunt for the Higgs Boson particle frequently referred to as the God Particle, CERN in Switzerland needed to identify an electronics company that could work in partnership to design and manufacture a range of high end electronics packages.

The brief was to help capture the data that was being generated by the particle collisions within the accelerator. The second part of the brief was to have a control function that would shut down the particle accelerator in the event of there being a catastrophic loss of control within the ring. Scotland Electronics were identified as that supplier; we worked very closely with the resident engineers and scientists at CERN to develop and manufacture to very tight schedules an array of high precision electronics that were able to meet these exacting requirements for research and development. Whenever a technical challenge exists, Scotland Electronics is able to add the necessary intellectual muscle to achieve the results you require. CERN engineering teams would certainly agree!

Bandung, 22th November 2012 Learning fundamental physics and spending my time at CERN is the best investment in my life. My name is I Made Wiratha Nungrat, an applicant from Indonesia. I am a fourth year student at Institut Teknologi Bandung, majoring in Electrical Engineering. Since I was a child, night sky have always been fascinated me. I wonder and ask "what is out there?" my mother said: "Those who you do study science at school". That was my first time to fallen in love with physics and astronomy. When I was in junior high school, I routinely cleaned the school library. One day, a very thick and dusty book entitled "Modern Physics" by Arthur Beiser fell off from bookshelf and caught my attention. I decided to relax for few minutes and read the book. After opening table of contents, I am curious with Atomic Structures and Quantum Mechanics. That chapters was completely blown my mind, the Universe is a lot stranger than I thought. That book was really inspired me to be a physicist. Doing research in laboratory surrounded by scientific instruments, understanding the Cosmos and finding answer of the most difficult and fundamental questions in physics, was my teenage dream. As I grew up, however, this simple fantasy gradually

disappeared. Now, I have been nicely three years in engineering school, but I still fall in deep thinking about physics behind our wonderful Universe. I realize that innocent and ludicrous idea is one that has been my sole motivation into becoming what I am today. CERN is the most exciting and best place to work, of course because a goal that has been secretly lurking in the depth of my everlasting passion in science especially physics. CERN broadens my perspective about career in engineering because the important things beside job are continuous learning and follow our passion. Therefore, I had a dream that one day in the future I must take part on this underground particle research amphitheatre. Collaborating with highly motivated people, work with engineering team and give my expertise for scientific interest toward a common goal is a good idea. This programme is a once-in-a-lifetime and valuable chance for me to enrich my engineering experience and wake that dream. Although this is an unpaid training, this chance is worth pursuing. I am hoping that during my study as an undergraduate student, I have been involved as a participant of global endeavor at CERN. So with these reason, I am giving a try for myself to be part of this programme. I will have the opportunity to share my experience and introduce an ongoing particle research at CERN to my community. The most important thing is that I can encourage and inspire young people to appreciate scientific endeavor and study physics with my experience and perspective. If we can persuade many young people that fundamental science is as important as it is useful, then our future will be far better. I also would like to learn many things in a more professional way like how to face with cultural barriers and how to build a long-lasting contacts and relationships with other students, scientists and engineers internationally. So these are what I have in my mind on why I want to be there. I am convinced by participating in Short-term Students Program I will gain a lot of experience and bring benefits to CERN and my country Sincerely,

Participating in research programmes related to engineering, computing and physics will not only allow me to develop myself intellectually but satisfy my curiosity to understand the universe and everything in it. As my knowledge of physics has developed my perception of reality has evolved and I find myself pondering over challenging questions, which drives me to learn more. I am amazed by the versatility of engineering and find a real satisfaction from grasping new concepts. CERN is the most exciting and best place to work. CERN broadens my perspective about career in engineering because the important things beside job are continuous learning and following our passion. Collaborating with highly motivated people, working with engineering teams and gathering expertise for scientific interest towards a common goal is a golden chance. This program is a once-in-a-lifetime chance for me to enrich my engineering experience and to satisfy my thirst of knowledge. I also would like to learn many things in a more professional way

including how to face with cultural barriers and how to build a long-lasting contacts and relationships with other students, scientists and engineers internationally. These are my motivations for working at CERN. I am convinced by participating this program I will gain a lot of experience and bring benefits to CERN and my country.

Expertise on control systems based on industry-standard equipment (PLCs, industrial front-end computers, field buses) and software (industrial automation, supervisory control, data acquisition, instrument control); these are deployed in the accelerator, its infrastructure systems, the experiments and in laboratories,

CERN is the most exciting and best place to work. CERN broadens my perspective about career in engineering because the important things beside job are continuous learning and follow our passion. Collaborating with highly motivated people, work with engineering team and give my expertise for scientific interest toward a common goal is a good idea. This programme is a once-in-a-lifetime and valuable chance for me to enrich my engineering experiences and satisfy my thirst for knowledge about the universe. I also would like to learn many things in a more professional way like how to face with cultural barriers and how to build a long-lasting contacts and relationships with other students, scientists and engineers internationally