Users of the Simple VME FMC carrier (SVEC)

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

Known users

• CERN
  • BE/BI - Beam Instrumentation
    • “The CERN Beam Instrumentation group, together with physicists from the protoDUNE collaboration, is investigating a sub nanosecond time-of-flight system based on scintillating fibres read-out with fast PMT. The SVEC FMC-TDC has been chosen as it has the required timing performance and it integrates White Rabbit, which is required to timestamp the events in a common time reference shared by the beam instrumentation and the protoDUNE detectors.” (Feb 2017, I.Ortega)
  • BE/CO - Controls
    • LHC Instabilities Trigger Distribution
    • OASIS - Open Analogue Signal Information System used for the acquisition and display of analogue signals in the accelerator domain.
  • BE/RF - Radio-Frequency
    • PSB RF interlock interface
      • Through the VME-Interlock-RTM and the SVEC, status signals from the RF power, RF low-level and the Linac 4 Interlock systems are collected. The information are elaborated to determine what ring(s) of the PSB should be inhibited. (BE/RF, S.Zorzetti, A.Blas, August 2013)
    • Reception of the B-train information in the PS, as well as calculation and distribution of the revolution frequency to the longitudinal beam control system. Uses differential driver card FMC-DTX-4CHA. (BE-RF, M. Sundal, Oct.2013).
  • TE/ABT - Accelerator Beam Transfer
    • Accelerator complex Beam Transfer with Fine Delay and TDC modules (TE/ABT, E.Carlier)
    • FIDS (fast interlocks detection system) (TE/ABT, P. van Trappen, S.Uyttenhove, F.Cordobés)
      • Using FMC DIO 16i 4o I/O module
  • TE/EPC - Electrical Power Converters (J.L.Gomez Costa)
    • SVEC Static Var Compensator – used to measure parameters in each SVC at CERN, when it is triggered it freezes a buffer and allows a reconstruction of the events leading to an SVC trip.
      • Measurements on power system with 64 channel, 128 KS/s, 16-bit ADC on Rear Transition Module, EDA-02379 VmeAdc128K16b64cha (TE/EPC/CCE, O.Michels) - 12 installed (Finished 10/2014)
    • SVEC PS Powering – using white rabbit to receive the B-Field measurement, to replace the aging B-Train system in the POPS. It will also allow us to send Imeas and other things (TE/EPC-CCE, installed in 2014)
    • SVEC SPS Measurement and Acquisition Module – used to measure regulation parameters in the SPS mains powering system. (TE/EPC/CCE, A.Vilar Villanueva)
    • Measurements on power system (POPS) with ADC digital readout on FMC card, using White Rabbit (TE/EPC/CCE, F.Aglietti, under test October 2014)

• Argonne National Laboratory, Advanced Photon Source - APS
  • Reflective Memory interface (May 2013, R.Lipa)
  • APS Fast Orbit Feedback System Upgrade, Robert Lipa et al.
    • presented at the North American Particle Accelerator Conference 2013, NA-PAC'13

• GSI
  • SVEC with FMC-DIO5 for FAIR accelerator (with SIS) (Aug 2017)

• Helmholz Centrum Berlin
  • Upgrade BESSY II - The variable pulse-length storage ring proposed by Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (BESSY VSR) (Nov 2018)

• Other
  • Pulse generator (20 channels) outputting pulses on VME-P2 connector. Needs no FMC mezzanine.
  • Test system for memory units.

Potential users

• Institute for plasma research, Gujarat, India
  • Use White Rabbit for Timing synchronization and trigger distribution. using PCs, VME and PXI. (June 2015)
• Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
  • Correlate the events between different DAQ systems using a SVEC module with White Rabbit support (July 2018)
• JET IPPLMS, Poland
  • Digitisation of the KX7 detector signal at JET
  • Use with two 16 channel cards and AFEs for GEM detector readout and integrate it in existing system. (G. Kasprowicz, Jan.2012)

Erik van der Bij - 28 November 2018