1. LAr Frontend Board PRR Introduction 1.Overview of FEB functionality 2.FEB performance requirements 3.Development and evaluation of FEB 4.Organization of FEB PRR presentations and documents John Parsons Nevis Labs, Columbia University March 18/2004

2. J. Parsons, FEB PRR, March 18/20042 functionality includes: receive input signals from calorimeter amplify and shape them store signals in analog form while awaiting L1 trigger digitize signals for triggered events transmit output data bit-serially over optical link off detector provide analog sums to L1 trigger sum tree Frontend Board Overview

3. J. Parsons, FEB PRR, March 18/20043 read out  170k channels of calorimeter (total of 1524 FEBs) dynamic range  16 bits measure signals at bunch crossing frequency of 40 MHz (ie. every 25 ns) store signals during L1 trigger latency of up to 2.5  s (100 bunch crossings) digitize and read out 5 samples/channel at a max. L1 rate of 100 kHz measure deposited energies with resolution < 0.25% coherent noise per channel < 5% of total noise per channel measure times of energy depositions with resolution << 25 ns high density (128 channels per board) low power (  0.8 W/channel) high reliability over expected lifetime of > 10 years must tolerate expected radiation levels (10 yrs LHC, no safety factors) of: TID 5 kRad NIEL 1.6E12 n/cm2 (1 MeV eq.) SEU 7.7E11 h/cm2 (> 20 MeV) Overview of Requirements of ATLAS LAr FEB

4. J. Parsons, FEB PRR, March 18/20044 Full functionality “Module 0” FEB boards were developed Provided verification of the electronics design concepts Used in testbeam runs with Module 0 and production calorimeter modules In total, almost 50 Mod0 FEBs (  6000 channels) were produced Have been operating reliably in testbeam for past several years (and continue to do so) Performance meets or exceed ATLAS specifications Due to schedule, Mod0 boards developed with some “short cuts”: Did not use final control signal (TTC and SPAC) distribution FEB used Cu output cables instead of optical links Did not pay strict attention to radiation tolerance requirements the main task remaining in the development of the final ATLAS FEB was to radiation harden the designs, and in particular to replace several FPGAs and other COTs with custom rad-tol ICs Module 0 Electronics Experience

5. J. Parsons, FEB PRR, March 18/20045 10 different custom rad-tol ASICs, relatively few COTs Overview of main FEB components 32 SCA16 ADC8 GainSel 1 GLink1 Config.2 SCAC 1 SPAC 1 MUX 32 Shaper 1 TTCRx 7 CLKFO 14 pos. Vregs +6 neg. Vregs 2 LSB 32 0T 128 input signals 1 fiber to ROD Analog sums to TBB DMILL DSM AMS COTS 2 DCU TTC, SPAC signals

6. J. Parsons, FEB PRR, March 18/20046 one GLink output link per FEB, with rate of 1.6 Gbps link collaboration includes SMU, ISN, Stockholm, and Taiwan FEB Optical Links 1.6 Gb/s

7. J. Parsons, FEB PRR, March 18/20047 FEB Prototype Development 128 channels/FEB Large 10 layer PCB, with components on both sides First FEB assembled and tested (without Vreg) during Nov. ‘01 Pos. STm Vregs added Dec. ‘01 First neg. STm Vregs (JQ4) tested Dec. ’02 Vreg showed stability problems Pinout change required iterated FEB design (  v. 1.4) JQ5 neg. ST Vreg tested June ’03 Stability problem solved, but radiation problems seen 20 v1.4 FEBs made for FECT Two FEBs successfully tested with JQ6 neg. STm Vreg in October ’03 FEB design iterated (  v. 1.5) in Jan. ‘04 to implement QPLL to reduce CLK jitter Two v1.5 FEB produced and tested

8. J. Parsons, FEB PRR, March 18/20048 Before proceeding to PRRs of FE crate electronics, LAr decided to perform system test (at BNL) with all boards required for one half-FEC (~ 1% of total system) The FEC system test included 14 FEBs (1792 channels) The main FEB results from FECT will be presented by Ioannis Katsanos Last fall, it was observed during the FEC test that some of the FEBs showed large error rates in their output data optical links Many detailed investigations since then have allowed us to understand that the problem was from jitter on the FEB CLK, due both to jitter in the incoming TTC signal and to jitter from the on-board TTCRx Usage of a “cleaner” TTC source allowed stable running of the FECT We have in addition modified the FEB design to incorporate the QPLL, in order to provide more operating margin Stefan Simion will summarize the jitter studies, and solution implemented Front End Crate System Test

9. J. Parsons, FEB PRR, March 18/20049 1.Concern over availability of rad-tol negative Vreg JQ6 version from STm accepted for production Meeting (this week) to hear results of STm’s 1000 hr lifetime test Production quantity to be available next month 2.Concern over availability of ADC (joint order with CMS/LHCb) Delivery is well underway (2 lots accepted, 3 rd lot being irradiated now) 3.Concern over SMUX/GLink timing issues for optical link Delay chip added to provide additional margin Most important timing parameters being measured for each SMUX chip 4.Proposed use of Power-on-Reset scheme as per the CALIB board Done 5.Diodes should be tested for radiation tolerance Done for pre-selection, planned for production (see Stefan’s talk) 6.Develop further plan for traceability of components via serial numbers Done Issues from FEB Final Design Review (June 18/02)

10. J. Parsons, FEB PRR, March 18/200410 FEB results from FEC system test- Ioannis Katsanos Timing/jitter studies- Stefan Simion Summary of FEB radiation qualification- Stefan Simion FEB production and QA/QC overview- John Parsons FEB HASS test- Gustaaf Brooijmans FEB test setup at LAL- Dirk Zerwas FEB test setup at BNL- Hucheng Chen Summary- John Parsons FEB PRR Presentations