FIRST WORKSHOP ON ELECTRONICS FOR LHC EXPERIMENTS

LISBON, 11-15 September 1995

PROGRAMME

NEW!!! (14-08-95)

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Monday 11 September

WELCOME

10:00 Ramoa RIBEIRO       President JNICT
10:05 Jose MARIANO GAGO   President LIP
10:15 Diamantino DURAO    President IST
10:20 Enzo IAROCCI        Director INFN-Frascati
10:25 Francois BOURGEOIS  Chairman of the LHC Electronics Review Board

10:30 Jean MARINE       Component Obsolescence - INVITED SPEAKER
11:00 Steve QUINTON     A Quality System for the LHC Experiment
                        Electronics

RADIATION HARD PROCESSES AND CIRCUITS
Chairman : Christian BOHM

11:30 Erik HEIJNE       INVITED SPEAKER
12:00 Nick van VONNO    A Hardened Bipolar Process for High Luminosity
                        Collider Readout Applications

12:25                   Lunch Break

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14:00 Mike LIU          Total Dose Hard SOI CMOS Devices
14:25 Jean REDOLFI      SOI Standard Products and ASICs at TCS
14:50 Martin DENTAN     DMILL, a Mixed Analog-Digital Radiation-Hard
                        Technology for High Energy Physics Electronics
15:15 Wladek DABROWSKI  Experimental Results of Bipolar Devices and
                        Transimpedance Preamplifier Designed in DMILL
                        Technology After a Total Dose of 10**14 Neutron
                        and 20 Mrads
15:40 Chuck BRITTON     A Radiation-Hard Analog Memory in the AVLSI-RA
                        Process

16:00                   Coffee Break

16:25 Pierre JARRON     Study of a Radiation Hard SOI-CMOS Technology for
                        Mixed Analog-Digital IC Design for Applications
                        in LHC
16:50 Waclaw KARPINSKI  Radiation Hardness, Noise- and DC- Performance
                        Studies on Complementary Heterojunction FETs
                        (C-HFETs) in GaAs at Low Drain Current Densities
17:15 Laurent BLANQUART Test Results from Prototype Pixel Chips for
                        ATLAS in DMILL and HSOI Radhard Technologies
17:40 Horst OBERLACK    Cold GaAs Frontend Electronics for the LAr
                        Hadronic Endcap Calorimeter of the ATLAS
                        Detector : Requirements, First Test Results
                        and Radiation Hardness

18:05                   DISCUSSION

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Tuesday 12 September

ELECTRONICS FOR TRACKERS
Morning session, chairman : Sandro CENTRO

8:30  Hans Jurgen HILKE INVITED SPEAKER
9:10  Chuck BRITTON     Multiplicity-Vertex Detector Electronics
                        Development for Heavy-Ion Detectors
9:35  Giancarlo BONAZZOLA A Very Fast Radiation Resistant Binary Readout
                        System for Silicon Strip Detectors
10:00 Spencer KLEIN     The STAR TPC Front End Electronics

10:25                   Coffee Break

10:45 Roberto BONINO    A Prototype Read-Out System for a Silicon Tracker
                        at LHC
11:10 Eric EVANS        AROW - A 128-Channel Analogue Pipeline and
                        Wilkinson ADC with Sparsification IC
11:35 Helmuth SPIELER   A Binary Readout System for Silicon Strip
                        Detectors at the LHC
12:00 Geoffrey HALL     The Electronic Readout of the CMS Tracking System


12:25                   Lunch Break

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Afternoon session, chairman : Geoffrey HALL

14:00 Rob HALSALL       The Front-End Driver of the CMS Tracker
14:25 Markus FRENCH     APV5RH a 128 Channel Radiation Hard Pipeline
                        Chip for LHC Tracker Applications
14:50 Eduard ATKIN      Development of an 8-Channel System for Minidrift
                        Chambers
15:15 Pierre JARRON     Comparative Study of the Noise Performance of
                        Bipolar and CMOS Preamplifiers for Tracker
                        Applications at the LHC and Possible Improvement
                        with Non-Linear Analog Signal Processing

15:40                   Coffee Break

16:10 Max PINDO         Radiation Hardness and Resistance to
                        Electromigration Effects of Conductive Glue Bonds
                        for Hybrid Pixel Detector Realization
16:35 Gary GRIM		Progress on Pixel Hybridization using Indium Bumps
17:00 Walter SNOEYS     A Pixel Readout Chip Using a Tunable Delay
                        Architecture for an LHC vertex detector
17:25 Yuri VOLKOV       Analog Integrated Circuits for Front-End
                        Electronics
17:50 Levon GEVORKOV    Parallel Architecture for the Readout of Analog
                        Signals Based on a New Type of ADC

18:15                   DISCUSSION

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Wednesday 13 September

ELECTRO-OPTICS
Chairman : Wesley SMITH

8:30  Giorgio STEFANINI INVITED SPEAKER
9:00  Alexander LARKIN  The Physical Properties of Coherent Laser
                        Radiation and its Employment for High Energy
                        Physics Experiments
9:25  Emmanuel MONNIER  An Analogue Optical Link at Liquid Argon
                        Temperature
9:50  Kurt BORER        A Lifetime Test of Neutron Irradiated Light
                        Emitting Diodes
10:05 Tony WEIDBERG     Optical Links for Data Transmission and Clock
                        and Control

10:30                   Coffee Break

10:50 I.A. NOVIKOV      Fiber Optics Transmitting System (FOTS)
                        for ALICE and Other Applications
11:15 Francois VASEY    Modulator-Based Lightwave Links for Analogue
                        Signal Transfer at LHC
11:40 Bruce TAYLOR      TTC Distribution

12:05                   DISCUSSION (Chairman, Professor Hans Melchior
                        ETH, Zurich)

12:35                   Lunch Break

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ELECTRONICS FOR MUON DETECTORS
Chairman : Emilio PETROLO

14:00 Aleandro NISATI   INVITED SPEAKER
14:30 Jim SHANK         Pulse Shape Studies with ATLAS Muon drift tubes
14:55 John OLIVER       Signal Processing and Front End Electronics
                        for the ATLAS Muon Detector
15:20 Richard BREEDON   Development of a Switched Capacitor Array ASIC
                        for the CMS Forward Muon Chamber Readout
15:45 Yasuo ARAI        Time Memory Cell VLSI and High-speed Serial
                        Interface

16:10                   Coffee Break

16:30 Stefano VENEZIANO Trigger Logic for the ATLAS First Level Muon
                        Trigger
16:55 Ignacy KUDLA      Trigger Electronics for Muon RPC Chambers in CMS
17:20 Roberto MARTINELLI Design and Simulations of the Trigger
                        Electronics for the CMS Muon Barrel Chambers
17:45 Alexander KLUGE   Track Finding Processor in the DTBX Based CMS
                        Barrel Muon Trigger System

18:10                   DISCUSSION

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Thursday 14 September

ELECTRONICS FOR CALORIMETRY
Morning session, chairman : Jacques COLAS

8:30  Veljko RADEKA     INVITED SPEAKER
9:10  Yuri MUSIENKO     Investigation of Avalanche Photodiodes for an EM
                        Calorimeter at LHC
9:35  Michel GOYOT      Development of High Speed Low Noise
                        Transimpedance Preamplifier in Bipolar
                        Technology for Silicon Photodetectors of the CMS
                        Electromagnetic Calorimeter
10:00 Andrea BASCHIROTTO Monolithic Bipolar Read-Out Channel for
                        Calorimeter Applications
10:25 Daniel V. CAMIN   III-V Technology for Cryogenic Front-End
                        Electronics in Liquid Argon Calorimetry

10:50                   Coffee Break

11:10 Harold SANDERS    A Low  Noise, High Rate Shaper for the Tilecal
                        Detector
11:35 John PARSONS      Readout Electronics for the ATLAS LAr Calorimeter
12:00 Douglas GINGRICH  PAPER ONLY : A Pipeline Controller for the
                        ATLAS Calorimeter
12:00 Joao GOES         High-Speed Self-Calibrated CMOS Pipeline
                        Analogue-to-Digital Converters for High-Energy
                        Physics Experiments

12:30                   Lunch Break

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Afternoon session, chairman :Juergen FENT

14:00 Gert VIERTEL      Development of the Readout Electronics
                        for the CMS Electromagnetic Calorimeter
14:25 Bo LOFSTEDT       FERMI:a Digital Front End and Readout Microsystem
                        for High Resolution Calorimetry
14:50 Manuel MOTA       MEC3 - A Pipelined Zero Suppression and Trigger
                        Matching Chip
15:15 Michael SIMPSON   Integrated Readout Electronics for the PbWO4
                        Calorimeter

15:40                   Coffee Break

16:00 Ian BRAWN         Bunch-Crossing Identication for the ATLAS
                        First-Level Calorimeter trigger
16:25 Viraj PERERA      A First Level Calorimeter Trigger for the ATLAS
                        Experiment
16:50 Christian BOHM    Design Study and Demonstrator Programme for a
                        Compact Solution to the First-Level Calorimeter
                        Trigger for the ATLAS Detector
17:15 Wesley H. SMITH   CMS Calorimeter Trigger Circuits
17:40 Joao VARELA       Requirements for a Fine Grained Calorimeter
                        Trigger
18:05 Ph. BUSSON        L-Neuro 2.3, a Digital Vectorial Processor
                        for Calorimeter Trigger at LHC

18:30                   DISCUSSION

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Friday 15 September

TRIGGER AND EVENT BUILDING
Chairman : Michel MUR

8:30 Andrew J. LANKFORD  INVITED SPEAKER
9:10  Speranza FALCIANO  The ATLAS Level-2 Muon Trigger for the Barrel
                         Region
9:35  J. Manuel SEIXAS   Implementing a Neural Second-Level Trigger
                         System on Digital Signal Processor Technology :
                         The Global Decision Problem
10:00 Christian KIESLING The Potential of Neural Network Triggers for LHC
                         Experiments

10:25                    Coffee Break

10:45 Klaus-Henning NOFFZ ENABLE++ : A General-Purpose L2 Trigger Processor
11:10 Jean-Pierre DUFEY  An ATM-Based Event Builder Test System
11:35 Michael MOJAVER    Implementation and Initial Tests of a High
                         Performance, Parallel Processing Event Server
                         with an ATM Interface
12:00 Osamu SASAKI       SBus G-Link Transmitter and Receiver Modules
                         for an Event Builder System

12:25                    Lunch Break

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Chairman : Francois BOURGEOIS

14:00 Gyorgy RUBIN       A High Performance Fibre Channel Tester
                         and its Application in HEP Environment
14:25 Philippe FARTHOUAT VMEbus - The Complete Backplane Bus For High
                         Energy Physics
14:50 Carlos FERNANDES   VHDL Design of PCI Mezzanines (PMC) for a
                         PCI-SCI Bridge

15:15                    DISCUSSION
15:45                    CONCLUDING ADDRESS
16:00                    End of Workshop

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Tuesday 12 September through Friday 15 September

POSTER SESSION - Chairman : Steve QUINTON

Y. HU                   Irradiation Study of a Low Noise, Low Power CMOS
                        Preamplifier Shaper for Microstrip Detector
                        Readout in DMILL Process
Filipe VINCI DOS SANTOS A Design Technique for Compensation of MOS
                        Transistor Total Integrated Dose Degradation
Christian NEYER         A Precise Discriminator for Time Of Flight
                        Measurements in Alice
Rolf SCHULZE            A Precise Time to Amplitude Converter (TAC)
                        for Time Of Flight Measurements in Alice
Chikara FUKUNAGA        A Possible Readout System for Muon Tracking
                        Chambers in High Rate Environment
Alexandre MARTEMIANOV   Electronics channel for PPC Time Of Flight
                        Measurements
Osamu SASAKI            Forward Muon Trigger Electronics for Thin
                        Gap Chambers
Joao Pedro OLIVEIRA     A Current-Mode High-Speed A/D Converter for
                        LHC Experiments
Jean-Claude BERSET      A Study of the Applicability of the NA48 Gain
                        Switching Technology to Liquid Calorimetry at LHC
John DOWDELL            The H1 SPACAL Time-to-Digital Converter System
Alexander MASS          Design and Test of an ASIC for Bunch Crossing
                        Identification in the ATLAS Level 1 Trigger
Reinhard MAENNER        Design of the HERA-B First Level Trigger
Senerath B. GALAGEDERA  The Data Merger Readout Controller for the NA48
                        Experiment Data Acquisition Electronics
Antonio RANIERI         A PCI-Futurebus+ Interface for Single Board
                        Computer Used in a Computer Farm for Event
                        Building of the KLOE Detector

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