1. John CoughlanESDG Group Meeting Oct 25 th 2007 STFC Technology TWEPP 2007 Topical Workshop on Electronics for Particle Physics http://www.particle.cz/conferences/twepp07/

2. John CoughlanESDG Group Meeting Oct 25 th 2007 STFC Technology ~90 talks, posters The top topics this year: 1. Systems, installation and commissioning 2. Powering 3. ASICs 4. Trigger (Atlas L1 Calorimeter) 5 from Technology Workshop Statistics LHC and looking ahead to SLHC in 2015/6? International Linear Collider 2020? Nothing on T2K

3. John CoughlanESDG Group Meeting Oct 25 th 2007 STFC Technology 30’000 km underground at 2 km/h! LHC Machine Status Problems with magnets Solved Pilot Physics Run July 2008

4. John CoughlanESDG Group Meeting Oct 25 th 2007 STFC Technology Radiation Hard FPGA (PLD) for SLHC Total Ionising Dose, Single Event Upsets FPGA: SRAM based, 32x32 LB (25k gates) 0.13 µm SEU robustness at CELL level. Configuration and User FFs Industry (Xilinx) compatible 256 I/Os Rad Hard FPGA

5. John CoughlanESDG Group Meeting Oct 25 th 2007 STFC Technology General Purpose Serial Link for SLHC detectors Bi-Dir Pt 2 Pt Links @ ~ 5 Gbps Data,Trigger (TTC) and Slow Controls all on same link Serial Link ASICs RadHard GBTs 0.13 µm Off Detector COTS FPGAs GBT Chip Set With FEC RS for SEU burst recovery Common solution reduce development effort Increase bandwidth to reduce nr links E-links to FE ASICs

6. John CoughlanESDG Group Meeting Oct 25 th 2007 STFC Technology Extension of CMS Calorimeter Trigger (GCT) Generic Trigger Card based on micro-TCA V5LX110T + MindSpeed crosspoint switch ATCA based Trigger Custom Active Switching Backplane Card

7. John CoughlanESDG Group Meeting Oct 25 th 2007 STFC Technology http://www.particle.cz/conferences/twepp07/ Useful Czech phrases… Dobrý den [dobree den] Hello (formal) Ahoj [ahoi] Hello and goodbye (informal) Děkuji (Díky) [dyekuyi] Thank you Prosím [proseem] Please Pivo [pivo] Beer Víno [veeno] Wine TWEPP 2008 Naxos Greece Talks at