Enseignement technique : ELEC-2005 - Electronics in High Energy Physics
Learning for the LHC!
ELEC-2005 is a new course series on modern electronics, given by CERN physicists and engineers within the framework of the 2005 Technical Training Programme, in an extended format of the successful ELEC-2002 course series.
This comprehensive course series is designed for people who are not electronics specialists, for example physicists, engineers and technicians working at or visiting the laboratory, who use or will use electronics in their present or future activities, in particular in the context of the LHC accelerator and experiments.
ELEC-2005 is composed of four Terms that will run throughout the year:
Winter Term: Introduction to electronics in HEP (January-February, 6 lectures)
Spring Term: Integrated circuits and VLSI technology for physics (March, 6 lectures)
Summer Term: System electronics for physics: Issues (May, 7 lectures)
Autumn Term: Electronics applications in HEP experiments (November-December, 10 lectures)
Lectures within each Term will take place on Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 10:00 to 12:30. The course will be in English, with questions and answers also possible in French. Separate registration to each Term is required: attendance costs will be of 10 CHF per lecture (Winter and Spring Terms: 60 CHF; Summer Term: 70 CHF; Autumn Term: 100 CHF).
Participation in any of the ELEC-2005 Terms is open: attendance to each Term is not a prerequisite to attend subsequent Terms. If you are interested in attending, please discuss with your supervisor and/or your DTO, and apply electronically via EDH. Participation in all sessions in a Term is strongly encouraged. Registered participants will be invited at each Term, attendance will be recorded in the personal training records.
The Winter Term - Introduction to electronics in HEP - will start on January 18, with the following programme:
- Tuesday 18.1 - Introduction: The basics of electronics (Philippe Farthouat). Review of electrical circuits: Laplace transforms, transfer functions, RC-CR networks. Operational amplifiers and applications, transmission lines.
- Thursday 20.1 - Analogue signal processing of particle detector signals (Francis Anghinolfi). Time and frequency representations of electrical signals. Particle detector signal amplification and shaping. Noise sources in electronic circuits and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) analysis of particle detector signals.
- Tuesday 25.1 - Analogue to digital conversion (Francis Anghinolfi). Analogue to digital converter (ADC) architectures: overview. Power, speed and resolution trade-off. Examples applied to instrumentation for physics.
Time to digital conversion and data transmission (Philippe Farthouat). Discriminators, time to digital converter (TDC) characteristics and tests. Types of data transmission: parallel, serial, coding.
- Thursday 27.1 - Optical data links (Francois Vasey). History and basic concepts. The light-matter interaction. Optical data link components and systems. Data links at the LHC.
- Tuesday 1.2 - Field Programmable Gate Arrays - FPGAs (Stefan Haas). Introduction to programmable logic devices; overview of the architecture of the main FPGA device families; introduction to the design flow: VHDL based and graphical design entry methods, verification, synthesis and testing with examples of the tools available at CERN.
- Thursday 3.2 - Printed circuit boards (PCBs) and hybrids (Rui de Oliveira, Betty Magnin). Fabrication technologies of PCBs and detectors based on PCB technology. Design methods and tools, assembly of components.
More information, online registration for the Winter Term and detailed programme are available on the Technical Training web pages, accessible from http://www.cern.ch/TechnicalTraining. The complete programme of the Winter Term will be published on a next Weekly Bulletin.
Organiser: Davide Vitè / HR-PMD-ATT / 75141 Davide.Vite@cern.ch
ENSEIGNEMENT TECHNIQUE
TECHNICAL TRAINING
Monique Duval 74924
technical.training@cern.ch
par Monique Duval
