EU Design Study Kickoff Meeting GSI U. Raich CERN AB/BDI Digital Signal Analysis for BPMs The Project –Measure beam trajectories and orbits in hadron machines –Specific problems: Varying revolution frequency, changing harmonic number The Principle –Fast digitization, signal treatment on the fly using FPGA and big memory

EU Design Study Kickoff Meeting GSI U. Raich CERN AB/BDI Block Diagram of Electronics Amplifier + shaper PU RAM Fast Sampling ADC ΔxΔx FPGA controller Communication to accelerator Control system Σ ΔyΔy

EU Design Study Kickoff Meeting GSI U. Raich CERN AB/BDI Digital Signal Analysis for BPMs GSI SIS18CERN PS

EU Design Study Kickoff Meeting GSI U. Raich CERN AB/BDI Project History (Pre-Phase) End 2003: First ideas, CERN contacts with Instrumentation Technologies (IT) Jan 2004: R&D contract of CERN with IT delivery of prototype Libera electronics (pre-version) GSI had similar plans, decided collaboration March 2004: Andreas Galatis as PhD student hired by GSI June 2004: CARE-HHH-Workshop on Hadron BPM signal treatment in Aumühle (Hamburg) Mid July 2004: Visit to IT (Jeroen Belleman, CERN) Measurements on CERN PS with fast ADC card + PC

EU Design Study Kickoff Meeting GSI U. Raich CERN AB/BDI Project History – (Pre-Phase) II Measurements on GSI SIS18 with fast ADC card + PC Oct 2004: Collaboration Meeting GSI + measurements with Libera and fast ADC + PC Some problems on pre-version Libera were solved (trigger), some remained (memory access) Nov. 2004: Measurement on CERN PS, Libera pre- version works ok as fast chart recorder From Nov 2004 to now: Data evaluation + development of signal processing algorithms (base line correction, bunch synchronisation). This is done offline (C-programs)

EU Design Study Kickoff Meeting GSI U. Raich CERN AB/BDI Going on at the moment At CERN a “market survey” + tender is needed in order to get acceptation by council. Continued work on offline signal processing algorithms at CERN and GSI in collaboration with TU Darmstadt First tests on implementation in the FPGA using VHDL simulation on measured data Hiring of a technical student (M. Stuckert) at CERN for the implementation work, hiring a technical engineer (K. Lang) at GSI.

EU Design Study Kickoff Meeting GSI U. Raich CERN AB/BDI Work Plan Next WP meeting mid-May in Slovenia (IT) Until October 2005: Refinement of algorithms, implementation in VHDL + simulation, timing checks, interfacing to IT’s VHDL code End 2005: Another measurement session using online signal treatment at GSI (2006: CERN) (CERN) Tender for acquisition of 50 digital treatment electronics cards/boxes. 2006: Definition of data layout in memory, interfacing to the accelerator control system at CERN Installation and commissioning of final system at PS