LEB 2000 Overview

PROCEEDINGS of the Seventh Workshop
on Electronics for LHC Experiments
Stockholm, Sweden, 10 - 14 September 2001

WORKSHOP OVERVIEW

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The purpose of the workshop was to review the electronics for LHC experiments and to identify areas and encourage common efforts for the development of electronics within and between the different LHC experiments and to promote collaboration in the engineering and physics communities involved in the LHC activities. The programme of the workshop has included both invited plenary talks and parallel working groups for contributed papers, complemented by a poster session. The focus of the workshop has been research and recent development in the following topics:

Radiation and magnetic field tolerant electronics systems
Optoelectronics
DAQ/DCS
Electronics for trackers
Electronics for calorimetry
Electronics for Muons detectors
Trigger electronics
Grounding, shielding cooling and alignment

The welcome address was given by Peter Sharp, Chairman of the CERN LHC Electronics Co-ordinating Committee, by Christian BOHM , Chairman of the local organizing committee and by U. Wahlgren,

PLENARY SESSIONS

P1 Chaired by Peter Sharp :

The LHC experimental programme - a status report by Jos Engelen, NIKHEF, Amsterdam
The Status of the LHC Machine by Thomas Taylor, CERN
Deep-Submicron Scaling Effects and Trends in High Performance CMOS by Kerry Bernstein, STSM, IBM Server Technology, Essex Junction, USA)
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P2 Chaired by Philippe Farthouat :

Electronics for Pixel Detectors by Michael Campbell, CERN
Modern board-level electronics design by Joël Bovier, CES Creative Electronic Systems SA, Petit Lancy, Switzerland

P3 Chaired by Michael Letheren :

Electronics for Calorimeters at LHC by Veljko Radeka, BNL, Upton, NY, USA
Evolution, Revolution and Convolution,
Recent Progress in Field-Programmable Logic by Peter Alfke, Xilinx, Inc., San Jose, California

P4 Chaired by Wesley Smith :

Electronics for Space Experiments by Gert M. Viertel, (Laboratory for High Energy Physics, ETH- Zurich, Switzerland)
Single Event Upset tests of commercial FPGA for space application by Stanley Mattsson, (Saab Space)

P5 Chaired by Peter Sharp

Experiences from the Electronic Commissioning of HERA-B by Bernhard Schwingenheuer, Max-Planck-Institut, Heidelberg

PARALLEL WORKING GROUPS

The two parallel working groups focused on the system design issues involved in the electronics for :

WORKING GROUP A:

Electronics for Trackers (Chairmen : Fabio Formenti and Vincent Vuillemin)
Radiation and Magnetic Field Tolerant Electronics Systems (Chairmen : Fabio Formenti and Michael Letheren)
Optoelectronics (Chairmen : Michael Letheren and Philippe Farthouat)
Electronics for Muons (Chairman : Robert Richter)

WORKING GROUP B:

Trigger Electronics (Chairmen: Wesley Smith and Michael Letheren)
Electronics for Calorimetry (Chairman : Gert Viertel)
DAQ / DCS (Chairman : Stephen Quinton)
Grounding Shielding and Cooling - Low Voltage / High Voltage (Chairman : Veljko Radeka)

POSTERS

The posters session was chaired by Stephen Quinton.

INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION

Company attending were:
"FIDELTRONIK", ul. Beniowskiego, 34-200 Sucha Beskidzka, Poland
http://www.fideltronik.com/index.html
Mission: Contract Electronic Manufacturing Solutions. ISO9002 quality.
Hardware designs including analog and digital solutions, software
development for microprocessors, standard PCs and embedded systems.
Products: UPS systems, DC power supplies, modems, monitoring software.
"HATRON Electronics", ul. Radzikowskiego 51, 31-305 Kraków, Poland
http://www.hatron.com/index.html
Products: PCBs up to 12 layers, sizes up to 450x540 mm2, laminate
thickness 0.2-3.2 mm, minimal line width 0.15 mm, spacing 0.2 mm
Technology: Cooper, nikel and gold plating by electrolitical process.
Sn/Pb plating by electrolitical or Hot Air Leveling methods. Deposition
of mozaics, soldering masks, labels. Electrical testing.

SPONSORSHIP

The workshop was sponsored by -   the Nobelstiftelsen (The Nobel Foundation)
                                                    -   Vetenskapsradet (the Swedish Research Council)
                                                    -   Ericsson
                                                    -   XCounter
                                                                 -   Mamea

NEXT WORKSHOP

The eigth workshop is expected to take place in Strasbourg, France, in September 2002.
Further information will be made available in due course on the World Wide Web.