Users of the Simple PXIe FMC Carrier (SPEXI)

The SPEXI card can be used in many ways. If you use the cards, please inform me about it.

Known users

• CERN
  • A PXI-based low-level control system for the fast pulsed magnets in the CERN PS Complex., J.Schipper et al. ICALEPCS 2013. Abstract
  • 4 SPEXI boards with FMC-DEL cards have been deployed in the kicker control systems at CERN (LEIR and others). (Sept.2015)
  • CERN timing on PXI and cRIO platforms, A.Rijllart, 2016

• Airbus Defence&Space (Airbus DS GmbH, former Astrium GmbH)
  • Project SCOUT, Unit Testers for testing a SAR Antenna in satellite (June 2014, July 2015)
  • Design FMC mezzanines: RS422/RS485, Multi-Use RF PCBs for Pin-Switches
  • Lower-level API driver is for Windows 7, 64 Bit. Windows 10 Support is on the roadmap

• Microwave Vision Group
  • Use as transceiver for the next generation multi-probe RF/Microwave antenna measurement system. (July 2014, Sept.2015)
  • Using with FmcAdc100M14b4cha ADC FMC mezzanine.

• Fribourg University
  • For student projects. (October 2016)

• CERN SM18 magnet test
  • Planning to use for superconducting magnet quench time stamping. (November 2016)
  • Using FmcTdc1ns5cha

• Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Research on the WR for the timing system of China ADS front-end demo Linac (CAFe) facility. (June 2020)
    • Uses Fine Delay FMC card and NI VI

• INFN Padova
  • Planning to use for magnetic measurement time stamping. (April 2017)
  • Using FmcTdc1ns5cha

• INFN Pavia
  • Implementing a clock synchronisation system for the ICARUS experiment. (October 2018)
  • Using FmcDio1ns5cha

Potential users

• Institute for plasma research, Gujarat, India
  • Use White Rabbit for Timing synchronization and trigger distribution. using PCs, VME and PXI. (June 2015)

Erik van der Bij and Adriaan Rijllart - 29 June 2020