News

VME FMC Carrier VFC

09-11-2010: 2nd prototype powered

All the power supply are working on this one. It is issued from a different batch of PCBs.

Simple PCIe FMC carrier SPEC

05-11-2010: PCB layout finished. Prototypes by mid December.

After several reviews the PCB layout of the Simple PCIe FMC carrier is finalised. CERN’s design office verified the design and created standard production files. Three prototype boards will be produced and assembled in Poland before being sent to CERN by mid December.

OHR Support

OHWR maintenance on 2010-11-08 morning (Monday)

added by Enrique García on 2010-11-02 17:09:25.328958 The ohwr website will be unavailable next monday for a short period of time, for a minor maintenance update. The procedure will start at 8:30 and will take around 15 minutes.

FMC PCIe Carrier PFC

04-11-2010: Front-panels will arrive by end of year

The PCI Express front-panels will be shipped from the US on 15 December.

FMC PCIe Carrier PFC

03-11-2010: First 3 prototypes expected by 15th November

The component assembly of 2 Standard-Negative-PFC and 1 Standard-PFC will start tomorrow 4th November. The estimated delivery delay is aproximately 1 week.

Optical link interface AMC

Project entered in OHR

Block diagram in Wiki page

RHINO

PCB layout almost complete

Layout has taken a bit longer than anticipated, however the end is now in sight! Supporting dual FMC-LPC connectors, DDR3 memory and various other high speed signals, placed some stringent impedance and length matching rules on many of the nets from the FPGA.

FMC ADC 100M 14b 4cha

25-10-2010: OHR design possibly used for Hadron therapy

One of the prototype FMC ADC cards has been donated to the non-profit institution TERA. The primary objective of the TERA Foundation is the development of radiotherapy techniques based on the use of hadron particles.

FMC ADC 100M 14b 4cha

25-10-2010: Ten V2 boards will be produced

After extensive testing of the prototype card (V1), several improvements have been made. This culminated in the V2 version of which ten will be produced, to be available on a December timescale.