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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 cross fertilisation in the engineering and physics communities involved in the LHC activities.

The program of the workshop included both invited plenary talks and parallel working groups for contributed papers. The focus of the workshop was research and recent development in the following topics:

• Radiation and magnetic field tolerant electronics systems
• Optoelectronics and data transfer systems
• Detector control and real time systems
• Electronics production and test techniques
• Systems reliability, quality assurance and maintenance
• Electronics for trackers
• Electronics for calorimeters
• Electronics for muon detectors
• Trigger electronics
• Low voltage and high voltage distribution
• Grounding shielding and cooling

PLENARY SESSIONS
Chaired by Peter Sharp:

• The LEB and the LHC

Peter Sharp (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, UK)
 
• Electronics Components and Systems, Radiation Qualification for Use in the LHC Machine

Invited Raymond Rausch (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland)
 
• Project Management

Invited Ed Temple (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois, USA)
 
• Electronics for High Energy Physics Experiments in the Giga-Scale Integration Era

Invited Krishna Shenai (University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois, USA)

• Developing and Commissioning BABAR Electronics

Invited Andrew Lankford (University of California, Irvine, California, USA)
 
• Development, Production and Installation of CDF Electronics

Invited Peter Wilson (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois, USA)

Chaired by Michael Letheren:

• The Future of FPGAs

Invited Peter Alfke (Xilinx Inc., San Jose, California, USA)

Chaired by Philippe Farthouat:

• Testing Electronics

Invited Jorgen Christiansen (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland)
 
• Scalable Test Solutions: A Means of Improving ASIC Performance and Time-to-Market in Mixed-Signal Engineering Test

Invited Birger Schneider (MicroLex, Hoersholm, Denmark)

Chaired by Peter Sharp:

• Using COTS at the LHC: Building on Space Experience

Invited Jim Kinnison (Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, Maryland, USA)

ROUNDTABLE
The roundtable on COTS was chaired by Peter Winokur (Sandia Laboratory, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA).

PARALLEL WORKING GROUPS
The two parallel working groups focussed on the system design issues involved in the electronics for :
 

WORKING GROUP A:

• Electronics for Trackers (Chairmen: Michal Turala and Geoff Hall)
• Optoelectronics and Data Transfer Systems (Chairmen: Michal Turala and Michael Letheren)
• Radiation and Magnetic Field Tolerant Electronics Systems (Chairman: Veljko Radeka)
• Electronics for Calorimeters (Chairmen: Veljko Radeka and Pierre Borgeaud)

• Panel Discussion chaired by Hugh H. Williams (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)

WORKING GROUP B:
 
• Trigger Electronics (Chairmen: Wesley Smith and Sridhara R. Dasu)
• Data Acquisition and Detector Control and Real Time System (Chairman: Michael Schmelling)
• Grounding Shielding and Cooling (Chairmen: Fabio Formenti and Jorgen Christiansen)
• Electronics for Muon Detectors (Chairman: Jorgen Christiansen)
 
• Panel Discussion chaired by John Elias (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois, USA)

POSTERS
The posters session was chaired by Steve Quinton

INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION
Company attending was CAEN SpA, Viareggio, Italy.

NEXT WORKSHOP

The sixth workshop is expected to take place in Krakow, Poland, in September 2000.
Further information will be made available in due course on the World Wide Web.