1. Steven Alcock Background
DG Jamboree
31th October 2018
Steven Alcock (DG)

2. What Did I Do Before ESS?
MEng in Electronic Engineering ( ) at Durham University, UK.
After graduation, spent four years as an FPGA design engineer, with a particular focus on telecommunications and digital signal processing.
Experience of technical liaison in an international environment, as well as working with a range of third-party contractors.
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3. What Do I Do Now? Joined ESS on a BrightnESS contract in July 2016.
Accepted a permanent contract in January 2018.
Working on the implementation of the generic detector readout architecture – principally FPGA design.
Was, until this week, based in Daresbury UK, now based permanently in Lund.
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4. Electronics Goal and Vision
DG Jamboree
31th October 2018
Steven Alcock (DG)

5. “The Goal and The Vision”
The Detector Electronics section is principally required to develop, commission and maintain the long-term readout architecture for detectors at ESS.
This includes managing the interfaces between the readout system and the DMSC, ICS, and Instrument teams.
We should also be able to provide ad-hoc advice, support and design effort when feasible, for the day-to-day activities of the wider Detector Group.
We should have the full range of expertise required to deliver the above goals. This implies analog electronics (including circuit and PCB design), digital electronics (principally FPGAs), embedded software (for developing test systems and liaising with other systems), and technician work (small scale mechanical and electronic assembly).
Our roles, responsibilities, and accountabilities should be well understood within the group, allowing us to provide an appropriate level of support to everyone.

6. How Do I Fit In This Team?
I provide FPGA design effort alongside the STFC engineers. Together, we are responsible for implementing the readout system according to the specification defined by the System Architect, Scott Kolya.
I manage the day-to-day progress of the STFC Readout Electronics In-Kind. This means that I should be your first point of contact for questions concerning its implementation. If I don’t know the answer, I should be able to point you in the direction of someone who does.
STFC
Detector Group
ICS
DMSC
Steven

7. How Will I Help The Team?
By providing high-quality technical solutions, with a particular focus on support and maintainability.
By facilitating clear communication pathways such that everyone is empowered to get on with what they need to do!
process(clk)
begin
if rising_edge(clk) then
if rst = ‘1’ then
sig <= ‘0’;
else
sig <= not sig;
end if;
end process;
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8. Questions?
DG Jamboree
31th October 2018
Steven Alcock (DG)