Ross Millar, student at the University of Glasgow, has worked for six months at CERN to debug the 200 ksps ADC, write firmware for it and develop a new version of the circuit board. He wrote an extensive report about his work.
Before this ADC can be produced in quantity, the final design has to be verified and the firmware needs to be re-aligned with the firmware of the 100 MSPS ADC so it can more easily be maintained and driver code can be more easily shared.
We needed to put the project on hold because of lack of manpower and the availability of a commercial and proprietary alternative for CERN’s applications.