SDW Taormina1 A dedicated controller for Adaptive Optics L3CCD developments Poster n° 58

SDW Taormina2 A dedicated controller for Adaptive Optics L3CCD developments P. Feautrier E. Stadler Jean-Luc Gach Philippe Balard Olivier Boissin Christian Guillaume M. Downing See Also :P. Feautrier’s poster Listen : M. Downing’s talk Part of the Opticon JRA2 corsortium

SDW Taormina3 A dedicated controller for CCD220 Some numbers we are not familiar with – Frame rate : 1500 FPS – Pixel rate : 109Mpixels/s – Data throughput : 218 Mbytes/s (1.7Gb/s) – Parallel transfert rate : 10 Mlines/s – Serial transfert rate : 13.7 MHz – Sequencer resolution below 10ns (100 to 400MHz) – Rise/fall times down to 5ns ( 70MHz Bandwidth & 4000V/  s slew) – Phases currents : several amps – Phases voltages : up to 50V – And RON : 0.1 electron (with L3 technology) The fastest astronomical controller ever ? Some numbers we are familiar with : – 240x240 pixels & 8 outputs (di piu)

SDW Taormina4 A dedicated controller for CCD220 Classical designs examples: controller cryostat BAD IDEA ! (For CCD 220) © ESO