UNI EN ISO 9001 CERT. N CAEN November 2006 EURITRACK Workshop

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1 UNI EN ISO 9001 CERT. N CAEN November 2006 EURITRACK Workshop

2 CAEN SpA Costruzioni Apparecchiature Elettroniche Nucleari Spin-offs of the Italian Nuclear Physics Research Institute, CAEN was founded in CAEN designs and manufactures sophisticated electronic equipment s for nuclear physics research and is today the world s leading companies in the field: there are several hundreds of thousand CAEN Low/High Voltage and data acquisition channels now working in all the most important Nuclear Physics Laboratories over the World. CAEN controls all the stages of the realisation of its products from design to production, collaborating with the experiments from the very early stage of their conception to the running period by providing impeccable after sale support.

3 Whereweare CERN CAEN Viareggio CAEN Elba Florence Rome Pisa Close to Pisa and Florence international airports World-wide international sales and service network

4 CAEN Technologies Inc. 1 st January 2005: CAEN starts the new US Company

5 45% CAEN R&D Staff: 110 people (production not included) 55% CAEN Staff background (production not included) R&D Other 5 50 Italy 22% CAEN Market 2005 International 78% 55 Graduated Qualified Others

6 CAEN Nuclear physics Microelectronics RFID Aerospace

7 Nuclear Physics LV and HV power supply systems Front-end electronics Rad-hard & magnetic field tolerance NIM, CAMAC, VME standards Custom developments Preminent position

8 Nuclear Physics CAEN is providing large amount of electronics for LHC experiment at CERN, working side by side with scientist team from all around the world.

9 Microelectronics Micro-Art of Technology Digital, Analogue and Mixed-Signal ASIC design Fitting on FPGA and Gate Arrays Space, Nuclear Physics and Biomedical applications Well defined project and design flow Close relationship with several foundries, test- and assembly-houses (Trigger filter for Nuclear Physics applications)

10 Aerospace Space to Innovation Pamela Payload Design and development of low/high voltage power supply systems Power Distribution and Conditioning DC/DC Converters Payload Power Supply Payload Data Processing Front-end electronics AMS-01 on Discovery STS91 AMS-02 HV Brick

11 RFID: Radio Frequency IDentification Automatic Identification market UHF Radio Frequency Identification System UHF range, ISO compliant reader Metal-mounting long range (4..6m) passive read/write TAG Semi-passive TAG for physic parameters data logging RFID System for: Transportation Security access & control The Art of Identification Supply Chain Management, warehousing and logistic

12 CAEN role in Euritrack project Designing and manufacturing of Euritrack frond-end electronics, able to provide the power supply and allow the management of all detector signals, including storage and retrieval of all events. The Front-end Electronics & Acquisition System is composed by 3 main hardware subsystems: The Power Supply System (PSS), The Front-End Electronic System (FE), The Data Acquisition System (DAQ).

13 CAEN role in Euritrack project Euritrack Power Supply System - 4 transmission, 16 top and 2 reflection NaI(Tl) PMTs - one independent line for the Alpha Particle Tracker - one independent line for the Neutron Detector - Voltage range: 0-4 kv - Independently adjustable powering - Remote control - Typical ripple: 30 mv PP. - Double current full-scale range: 2 ma or 0.2 ma, - Current set/monitor resolution: 20 na or 200 na

14 CAEN role in Euritrack project Euritrack Front-end Electronic System Delay rack housing : - the delay lines (maximum delay is about 100 ns); - the splitters. VME-V430 crate with the modules to process the signals coming from the detectors, perform the required coincidences between any pixel of the Alpha Particle Tracker and any gamma-ray detectors and obtain the energy and time information.

15 CAEN role in Euritrack project Euritrack Front-end Electronic System diagram GAMMA TOP ARRAY 16 A SPL SPL V812 CFD A967 Adapter A967 Adapter V1190 V792N TDC 70MB/s 16 Delay Line 16 QDC V2718 VME MASTER OPTICAL FIBER Legend: Yellow shadow: part enclosed in the delay rack SPL Splitter based on CAEN A315 component Adapter (2x8 to 16) based on A967 CAEN cable Adapter (2x16 to 32) based on A967 CAEN cable GAMMA REFL. ARRAY GAMMA TRANSM. ARRAY ALPHA TRACKER A345 SPL SPL 6 V812 V812 CFD Delay Line CFD CFD CFD CFD A967 Adapter A967 Adapter FAST CLEAR top V792N QDC FAST CLEAR tr+refl GATE tr+refl TRIGGER UNIT Nout Tref GATE top TDC-TRG V1495 VME BUS A2818 PCI OPTICAL CONTROLLER PCI BUS 100MB/s 80MB/s VME connection NEUTRON DETECTOR 1 QDC + TDC Neutron Board

16 CAEN role in Euritrack project Data Acquisition System Based on the trigger unit permits to synthesise the whole acquisition in a programmable FPGA.

17 CAEN experience in EU research CAEN was present in FP4, FP5 and FP6 with more than 10 projects Help in growing of branch activities (i.e. biomedical applications for microelectronic division) R&D development working side by side with different partners in order to obtain the best approach to solve the application problems New Product Development and quick product redirection with short term tactics (i.e. Euritrack V1495 trigger unit board)

18 CAEN experience in EU research CAEN was present in FP4, FP5 and FP6 with more than 10 projects Continuous monitoring of competitors and technological opportunities, improving the capacity of the technical and marketing team to identify new products and market opportunities.

19 Security Systems SME role Research Connection point between research and application Technology can t solve all security issues but security is impossible to reach without using the technology Application

20 Overall vision At EU level different technological innovations have been strengthen through R&D projects (STREP, PASR, ). RFId tags Cargo inspection systems Radiation & chemical detection sensors Electronic seals Optical recognition Vehicle inspection systems

21 Overall vision Different security actions bridged through a common European platform with the aim to create inter-relationships among them. RFId tags Cargo inspection systems Radiation & chemical detection sensors Electronic seals Optical recognition Vehicle inspection systems

22 Questions?