Enseignement technique : ELEC-2005: Electronics in High Energy Physics
CERN Technical Training 2005: Learning for the LHC!
ELEC-2005: Electronics in High Energy Physics - Spring Term
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: the Winter Term, Introduction to electronics in HEP, already took place; the next three Terms will run throughout the year:
Spring Term: Integrated circuits and VLSI technology for physics (March, 6 lectures) - now open for registration
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 10h00 to 12h30. 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 (Spring Term: 60.- CHF; Summer Term: 70.- CHF; Autumn Term: 100.- CHF).
Participation to 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 to all sessions in a Term is strongly encouraged. Registered participants will be invited to each Term, attendance will be recorded in the personal training records.
The Spring Term - Integrated circuits and VLSI technology for physics - is now open for registration, and will start on March 1st with the following programme:
Tuesday 1.3: Introduction to CMOS technology (Paulo Moreira). The evolution of microelectronics. MOS transistors, principles of operation. The MOS transistor as a circuit element. The CMOS inverter. The impact of scaling in performance.
Thursday 3.3: Digital design: CMOS logic circuits and fabrication technology (Paulo Moreira). Combinatorial MOS circuits. Sequential MOS circuits. Taking the interconnects into account. CMOS memory cells. Fabrication principles of CMOS circuits.
Tuesday 8.3: Digital design: methodology and tools (Jorgen Christiansen). Top-down or bottom-up design methodologies. Synthesis versus schematic entry; low power design. Design styles: full custom, standard cells, gate arrays and macro cells. Design tools: layout editor, schematic editor, design rule checking, simulation, place and route. Hardware describing languages and Synthesis.
Thursday 10.3: Testing and production (Jorgen Christiansen). Good design practices to arrive at working designs. Packaging: package types, signal interfaces, power supply, cooling. Testing: problems in design verification testing and production testing; scan path testing and design for testability. Future trends in digital IC design.
Tuesday 15.3: Basic analog design (Giovanni Anelli). Basic analog building blocks. Noise and matching in analog integrated circuits. An Op-Amp design example.
Thursday 17.3: Trends in microelectronics (Alessandro Marchioro). The exponential growth rate of the microelectronics industry during in the last thirty years: fundamental physical limits of fabrication parameters. 'Brute force' solutions and fundamentally new architectures researched by designers to advance further. High performance microprocessors, with new possible scenarios for the next 10 years. Different approaches to limit fabrication costs under the new advanced technologies. Present and future trends: consequences for components designed for applications in instrumentation for High Energy Physics.
More information, online registration to the Spring Term and detailed Term programmes are available on the ELEC-2005 webpage, accessible from http://www.cern.ch/TechnicalTraining.
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
