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8 May cp EPTAB4 2 News BAAN400 – move underway June? Destocking continuing The pool has many low-rental items with high repair costs LeCroy HV mainframe Rental 17 CHF/month Repair 1,050 CHF LeCroy NIM dual amplifier Rental 6 CHF/month Repair 415 CHF Evaluation of NIM in VME form-factor starting Latest introductions

8 May cp EPTAB4 3 Rental Fee Profile

8 May cp EPTAB4 4 Pool Users May 2003 Total LHC Experiments 41.7%

8 May cp EPTAB4 5 Financial Predictions Best case? Assumes that CMS will keep equipment in place at “overhead” rate of 18%, no fixed target and other users continuing at 2004 levels Guess! Assumes that CMS will resume at 2004 levels, no fixed target and other users continuing at 2004 levels

8 May cp EPTAB4 6 Future Of Pool The Pool must continue W-D.S., V.V., R.C. If dismantled, unlikely to be ever restarted Technical quality control – should this be compromised? 2005 Only CMS has requested test beam after 2005…? Fixed target programme? Find strategy to get past 2005 Extra customers Occupy staff Use income in 2003/4 for survival and to focus the pool Bank some revenue to meet incompressibles in 2005 To preserve infrastructure Set up coherent product lines Application orientated sets Renew the pool stock Benefit from 2 year guarantee Input required on Likely use of the Pool in 2005 and after Contact with resource coordinators, technical coordination… Other “pools” at CERN

8 May cp EPTAB4 7 Rental Existing scheme Heavy, unrealistic, difficult (~impossible) to implement Not transparent Possibilities “Commercial” scheme Life-time amortisation But we don’t sell off equipment at end of life (as does a car rental) We do not aim to be “commercial”, but to provide a service Too much selling off would put us in competition with ourselves in a small market Transparent No rental Funding by levy on experiments & support groups pro rata to needs Moves the problem Need to put responsibility for equipment at the appropriate level to ensure its proper treatment & return to pool Not transparent

8 May cp EPTAB4 8 Rental Conditions – Current Model Lifetime 5 years

8 May cp EPTAB4 9 Lifetime Amortisation Lifetime 5 years

8 May cp EPTAB4 10 Compromise Rental Scheme Soften the strict business model Problems with lifetime amortisation Constant rental fee Set by pool operations based on Initial cost Estimated useful lifetime Likely maintenance charges Likely usage End of life change in fee linked to level of technical support Based on statistics from real use Transparency Justify to EPTAB/EAB…

8 May cp EPTAB4 11 Compromise – Constant Rental Costs exceed revenue - action!

8 May cp EPTAB4 12 Application Orientated Sets Take a functional view of detector readout electronics Examine which functional blocks should/could be included in the Pool Survey the functional requirements and needs for LHC Detector functions and technologies Electronics Requirements for R&D and commissioning Practical examples of solutions adopted Which items could not be found from the Pool?

8 May cp EPTAB4 13 A functional view of the readout electronics Typical Read-Out STANDARD MODULES AND CUSTOM MODULES Discr. High- Bandwidth (> a few 100MHz) Detector Amplifier Pulse Shaper ADCMemory Computer interface Computer TDC Trigger Logic Creation of a database of the existing circuits: Circuit specifications Availability Contact person etc. Specificity increases, EPOOL role decreases