News
FMC ADC 100M 14b 4cha
4-08-2010: The board is working
Since mid July we have one board plugged in on Xilinx development kit and powered. Two channels are working as limited by Xilinx development kit clock connections (we’ll change our FMC connections on a V2 to cope with this). Some changes are needed to solve thermal problems. The ENOB & SNR are measured: >11 bits in all ranges. However, there seem to be still a problem with the harmonic distortion that is with -60dB somewhat higher than expected.
Conv TTL NIM 3in 30out
7-7-2010: Schematics ready
The schematics is now ready for review.
Check the schematics review page Schematics review.
Simple PCIe FMC carrier SPEC
23-06-2010: Project started
After having seen the complexity of the FMC PCI carrier project, with its many resources that are likely not used for many applications and that increase the cost, it has been decided to make a cost optimised version of this card. The design will be done by a company, with a tight interaction with CERN. The project will be run with the Open Hardware paradigm and the design files will be made available via this site.
FMC DEL 1ns 4cha
15-06-2010: Functional system specification review held.
A review of the functional system specification has been held. It resulted in some minor clarifications and in the simplification that input pulses will be ignored until the previous input pulse delay has expired.
FMC ADC 100M 14b 4cha
28-05-2010: The board is a beauty!
For bringing the SMC connectors I passed by the assembly workshop and had a chance to have a look at the three assembled PCBs. The boards look really beautiful with the four rows of black Panasonic switches clearly visible. With the gold-plated SMC connectors combined with the brushed aluminium front-plates they will look like a form of high-tech art!