Complete status
Status
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 01-10-2009 | Start working on project |
| 25-10-2009 | Functional specification written. |
| 23-11-2009 | Selection of components, waiting for schematic symbols. |
| 02-12-2009 | Work on the FmcAdc100M14b4ch_a is suspended, because estimated performance wasn't reached. |
| 18-12-2009 | Specification and schematic of new version has been added. |
| 22-01-2010 | FmcAdc100M14b4cha upgrade. Design revised and modified, better parameters expected. |
| 10-02-2010 | New design made with 3 input ranges and programmable offset. Need to finalise local clock circuit before PCB layout can start. |
| 24-02-2010 | Draft PCB layout done. Design document being written. Design review planned for 2 March. |
| 02-03-2010 | Design review of schematics done. fmc-adc-100m14b4cha-hw:V1Review |
| 04-03-2010 | Improvements made, responding to design review. fmc-adc-100m14b4cha-hw:V1ReviewImprov |
| 19-03-2010 | PCB review planned for 24 March 2010. |
| 24-03-2010 | Design review of PCB layout done. fmc-adc-100m14b4cha-hw:V1LayoutReview |
| 25-03-2010 | Small changes involved to the schematic (to make routing easier), PCB partially updated. |
| 29-03-2010 | PCB updated. Waiting for Design Office's review. |
| 06-04-2010 | 12 PCBs ordered. 3 will be mounted for prototyping. |
| 12-04-2010 | For availability reasons two resistor values need to be modified (120121, 510>511). See issues. |
| 06-05-2010 | 3 cards assembled, SMC connectors ordered but not yet available. |
| 28-05-2010 | SMC connectors given to workshop. Boards look really nice. |
| 09-06-2010 | 3 assembled boards received. |
| 12-07-2010 | One board plugged in on Xilinx development kit and powered. Debugging start. |
| 13-07-2010 | Two channels working! Limited by Xilinx development kit clock connections. |
| 30-07-2010 | Current consumption has been measured, document is now available on the wiki. |
| 30-07-2010 | Changes for the second version of the PCB documented, mainly to solve thermal problems with regulators. Required change of DC/DC converter and inductor. |
| 30-07-2010 | ENOB & SNR measured: >11 bits in all ranges. |
| 03-08-2010 | First harmonic distortion measurements made. Needs further investigation as with -60dB is higher than expected. |
| 03-09-2010 | The distortion source has been found. For further information go to Investigating the distortion source... |
| 03-09-2010 | Thermal stability measurements made. |
| 03-09-2010 | Frequency response of the anti-aliasing filter will be verified and possibly corrected. Needs development of software that shows frequency response. |
| 07-09-2010 | Both I2C buses are working. Accessing memory, setting the sampling frequency and making temperature measurements are now possible. |
| 08-09-2010 | Issue with linearity in the 30-90 kHz region caused by offset compensation circuit being investigated. |
| 20-09-2010 | The schematic has been updated. All the differences for the second version are given here :PDF |
| 29-09-2010 | Updates to PCB made (EDA-02063-V2). Ten boards ordered. Designer left CERN. |
| 22-10-2010 | Found inconsistencies in BOM. Requires modifications to schematics and production files. |
| 08-12-2010 | Production of ten boards of V2 will arrive before 17 December. Update 16-12-2010: will become 7 January. |
| 07-01-2011 | Ten V2 boards arrived. |
| 23-02-2011 | First board powered up on a SPEC carrier, no smoke! |
| 03-03-2011 | Trial of wave soldering of LEMO connector instead of SMC looks OK. PCB redesign needed if want to use wave soldering. |
| 08-03-2011 | Basic HDL code written (single shot, no time stamps). Needs testing. |
| 28-03-2011 | Basic HDL code tested. We're able to DMA raw adc data from DDR3 memory to the host and gnuplot them. |
| 21-06-2011 | Made schematics and layout modifications for V3 (see [[fmc-adc-100m14b4cha-hw:V3ChangeLog |
| 22-06-2011 | Project sent to DEM for front panel modification and production file generation. Ready on 24-06-2011. |
| 27-06-2011 | V3 ready for review. |
| 04-07-2011 | V3 reviewed. [[fmc-adc-100m14b4cha-hw:V3Review |
| 01-08-2011 | Price Enquiry sent out for first Open Hardware production. |
| 12-08-2011 | Firmware being finalised. Made re-usable for use in the fmc-adc-100k16b8cha":https://www.ohwr.org/project/fmc-adc-100k16b8cha, a slower ADC mezzanine. |
| 18-08-2011 | Design of a tester board. |
| 30-08-2011 | Production test software being written. |
| 12-09-2011 | Price Enquiry finished. Received replies from several companies. Order for 40 cards being made. |
| 15-09-2011 | V4 design made. Corrected some textual problems and one BOM item order number. |
| 20-09-2011 | Order for 40 cards placed with INCAA Computers (V5). Delivery in January 2012. |
| 10-10-2011 | Useful feedback from INCAA Computers made us improve the design as V5. |
| 02-12-2011 | Firmware getting stable. Demo oscilloscope program in Python written. |
| 20-12-2011 | Measured bandwidth is 30 MHz. 40 MHz bandwidth is possible by changing 2 capacitors per channel. |
| 10-01-2012 | Expect delivery of 40 cards in first week of March end March (update 7-3-2012). |
| 04-04-2012 | First production received: 40 V5 cards produced by INCAA Computers. |
| 05-02-2013 | Firmware development on-going. In parallel a driver is being written. Expect a release in April 2013 |
| 12-03-2013 | Release 1.0 of the fmc-adc gateware for SPEC is available. |
| 28-03-2013 | Release 1.1 of the fmc-adc gateware for SPEC is available. |
| 19-07-2013 | Firmware ported to work on the SVEC VME carrier. |
| 29-07-2013 | Release 2.0 of the fmc-adc gateware for SPEC is available. |
| 29-07-2013 | Release 1.0 of the fmc-adc gateware for SVEC is available. |
| 17-01-2014 | Release 3.0 of the fmc-adc gateware for SPEC and SVEC is available. |
| 24-03-2014 | Cards deployed in CERN's accelerator complex. Start of development to deployement: 4.5 year. |
| 22-04-2014 | CERN ordered 100 boards (V5-0) for delivery by 18/7/14 (20) and 19/9/14 (80). |
| 18-07-2014 | Received 20 pre-series boards. |
| 07-09-2015 | Over 40 installed in CERN's accelerator complex. |
| 08-09-2017 | New performance measurements being made. |
| 09-10-2017 | Detailed performance measurements made. |
| 16-11-2017 | "CERN ADC Development report for FMC-ADC-100M" draft received. Shows frequency response is OK. |
| 25-07-2018 | Extra stability measurements made: 2017 and 2018 Integration and Measurement results |
| 09-10-2017 | Detailed performance measurements made. |
| 21-10-2019 | FMC-ADC-100M Noise Measurements made to decide on alternative for obsolete L1 inductor. |
| 24-10-2019 | Power supply for -8V redesigned because of obsolescence of inductor. Many other minor issues handled in V6-0. |
| 04-03-2020 | 200 of these V6-0 cards will be built for CERN. |
| 18-03-2020 | Additional FMC-ADC-100M Noise Measurements made on -V6-0 board. ENOB of channel 1 improved by 0.3. |
Erik van der Bij - 23 March 2020