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Report of the activities of the Bologna Electronics Center presented to the Section assembly – July 2023
Details of activities for Group I
| ATLAS | Preparation of additional bases for LUCID photomultipliers – Avoni |
| ATLAS | Preparation of low and high voltage multipolar cabling, 35 meters long, for interconnection between the control/acquisition rack and the ATLAS-AFP test-bed detector at CERN – Avoni |
| ATLAS | Mounting heatsinks on the FPGAs of the ATLAS-ZDC and ATLAS LUCID LUCROD boards. – Avoni |
| ATLAS | Support activities for the preparation of the various test-beams of the Forward Detectors – Avoni |
| ATLAS | Preparation, assembly and testing of new brightness detectors (named ATLAS BMA) based on bonded LGAD. – Avoni |
| ATLAS | Support to the acquisition system based on ROD cards for PIXEL and IBL detectors – Balbi |
| ATLAS | Bakelite plate resistivity measurement system for the RPC detector – Meneghini |
| ATLAS | Hardware support to the Lucrod card of the Lucid i detector – Meneghin |
| ATLAS | Hardware support and firmware development for the Lucrod board of the ZDC detector – Meneghini |
| ATLAS | Realization of the wiring diagram for the prototype of the new version of the Lucrod board for the Lucid detector – Meneghini |
| ATLAS | Production of 5 LV_Cutoff boards called LV_Breaker for ITK – Torromeo |
| ATLAS | Realization of 3 additional HV_Switch_box boards for ITK – Torromeo |
| ATLAS | Modification of the ITK LV_Breaker boards with replacement of part of the relays with SSR (State Solid Relays) – Torromeo |
| ATLAS | Adaptation of the ITK_ATLAS patch card for connections to various sensors via SHT_Extended_Flex – Torromeo |
| ATLAS | Wiring and testing, in a clean room, of the LV_breaker, HV_Switch Box and Patch ITK_ATLAS boards with the sensors for the ITK test system – Torromeo |
| ATLAS | PCB Mounting Components with Sensors for ITK Test Setup -Veri |
| CMS | Layout design, production and assembly of the electronic board “CMS – NIM to LVDS & TTL Interface Rev001”. Mastropasqua, – Zuffa |
| CMS | Layout design of the electronic board “CMS – DC/DC Converter” – Mastropasqua, – Zuffa |
| CMS | Design, assembly and test of the second version of the NIM – TTL – LVDS signal conversion board. – Mastropasqua, Zuffa |
| LHCB | Firmware development for the acquisition system of the Plume – Balbi luminometer |
| LUXE | Layout design of the “Sensor PCB V3” boards hosting the sapphire sensor on which the GBP detector of the experiment is based – Zuffa |
| LUXE | Design of the “Sensor PCB V3 – Test Board” for testing the PCBs hosting the sapphire sensors of the experiment – Zuffa |
| LUXE | Assembly of components on pcb cod ”Sensor PCB V3 Rev001” and ”Sensor PCB Test Board Rev001” – Zuffa |
| LUXE | Layout design and production of the “FERS Carrier Board REV001” and “Transition Board REV001” electronic boards for testing the sensors of the GBP detector of the experiment – Zuffa |
| LUXE | Layout design of the “LUXE – FERS Patch Panel Rev001” electronic board for the management of all the signals coming from the sensors of the experiment detectors – Zuffa |
| LUXE | Layout design of the “Transition Board REV002” electronic board for signal sorting on FFC (Flexible Flat Cable) cables of the experiment – Zuffa |
| SEE | Support to the acquisition system for beam tests and participation in the Balbi, Falchieri, Mastropasqua, Travaglini test of July ’22 |
| RD_FCC | Support to the test system of a microRWELL Mastropasqua chamber, Torromeo |
| SND@CERN | Design and production of SND_FLEX flexible rigid board, for flexible connection between frontend SiPM board and acquisition board – Baldanza |
| SND@CERN |
SND@CERN Design and production of rigid flex board revision SND_FLEX2 – Baldanza |
Details of activities for Group II
| AND | Construction of a Michelson interferometer for teaching and dissemination Lolli, Degli Esposti, – Travaglini |
| ETIC | Support for the creation of the laboratory: planning, market surveys, orders – Balbi, Mastropasqua, Torromeo, Travaglini |
| KM3NeT | Control system via wifi of the Octopaes board of the Km3 experiment. – Of the exhibits |
| KM3NeT | Firmware validation system of the CLB board of the Km3 experiment – Degli Esposti |
| KM3NeT | Rewiring of all channels of the tracer of the Nessie experiment through the creation of PCBs – Degli Esposti |
| KM3NeT | Patch board to inhibit the RS485 driver inside the Base Modules for the Instrumentation Base – Pellegrini |
| KM3NeT | Design of the fourth generation of FMC board – Pellegrini |
| KM3NeT | Support for the creation of the first basic module with Wet White Rabbit Switch technology: creation of wiring and assistance/shifts at the production site in Caserta – Pellegrini |
| KM3NET4RR | Support for the creation of the laboratory: design, market surveys, orders – Degli Esposti, Pellegrini |
| LIMADOU2 | Assembly and test of the HEPD-2 detector at the laboratories of Rome 2 (Tor Vergata) – Lolli |
| NU@FNAL | Production of the mezzanine boards that will house the SiPM arrays that will have to operate in liquid nitrogen for the DUNE experiment tests; validation of the cards produced for the LAr imaging test. – Lax |
| NU@FNAL | Production of the Motherboard boards, with ALCOR ASIC chips, which will be placed inside the liquid nitrogen container for testing the SiPM matrices for the DUNE experiment. On each board there is the bonding of 8 ASIC Chips to manage a total of 256 SiPM – Lax |
| NU@FNAL | Design, production and test of 20 cold side boards, version 2, which will house the SiPMs and will have to operate in liquid nitrogen for the production tests of the DUNE – Lax experiment |
| NU@FNAL | Production and Test of 270 two-channel Front-end boards for the SIPM test system of the DUNE experiment – Lax |
| NU@FNAL | Design and production of 120 channels Relay boards for the mass test of the SiPMs of the DUNE experiment with Arduino control to realize the IV characteristics of the 120 SiPMs connected to the board. – Lax |
| NU@FNAL | Design and production of an adapter for testing cold SAMTEC cables and connectors – Lax |
| NU@FNAL | Design and production of an adapter for SAMTEC QTE80 pole connectors – Lax |
| NU@FNAL | DUNE Experiment SiPM Test System Electronics Service and Maintenance (Wire Fabrications, Electronics Repairs and Modifications) – Lax |
Details of activities for Group III and V
| ALICE | Development board for picoTDC CERN – Baldanza, Falchieri |
| ALICE | Firmware development/debug for TRM+DRM2 board – Falchieri |
| ALICE | Design and implementation of the picoTDC_adapter board -Torromeo |
| ALICE | Electrical schematic design for mezzanine with LIROC ASIC interfacing signals from a 64 SiPM array with the picoTDC ASIC – Veri |
| EIC | Design and production of the flexible rigid board EIC_SIPM256, with 256 Sipm on 4 modules of 64 SiPM each – Baldanza |
| EIC | Support/introduction of changes for the DAQ firmware for reading 6 Alcor chips – Falchieri |
| FAMU | Production and assembly of “Fast Baseline Restorer” + “ADA4930 X GSPS VER2” + ADL5565 X GSPS VER2 boards – Zuffa |
| FOOT 2 | Adapter cards – Meneghini |
| AIDAINNOVA | Hardware/firmware setup preparation with picoTDC card for chip performance evaluation – Falchieri |
| ARCADIA | Participation in characterization sessions of the MD3 monolithic chip with/cosmic/laser sources and installation of a working system with 2 chips at INFN BO – Falchieri |
| HIDRA2 | Contribution to the hardware development of the calorimeter Falchieri |
| HIDRA2 | Realization of a patch board for signals coming from SiPM and FERS board – Veri |
| HIDRA2 | Realization of a micropatch between SiPM and 16-pole 30AWG cable – Veri |
| IGNITE | Preparation for the design of the digital part of a chip in TSMC 28 nm technology – Falchieri |
Summary of activities (other projects and service management)
| DIDACTICS | Verilog course for two fifth graders of the ITI of Faenza (about 8 hours per class) with laboratory activities – Balbi |
| DIDACTICS | 24-hour module in the “Applied electronics” course for the master’s degree in Physics – Falchieri |
| DIDACTICS | 8-hour module in the “Laboratory of data acquisition and data processing” course for the master’s degree in Physics- Falchieri |
| DIDACTICS | Renovation of the northern lights simulator – Lolli |
| TRAINING | INFN Training Course on Machine Learning Techniques With FPGA Devices for Particle Physics Experiments – Travaglini |
| MICROELECTRONICS | Study and maintenance of CAD licenses – Falchieri, Balbi, Veri |
| MICROELECTRONICS | Training on wire bonding techniques (in collaboration with the Silici Laboratory) – Torromeo |
| MULTIMEDIA | Event audio/video support. training courses and editing and archiving of shots – Bisi, Lolli, Meneghini |
| SERVICE | Support for licenses – Bisi |
| SERVICE | RDA for the purchase of electronic consumables and inventories for the various experiments of the INFN section of Bologna – Lax, Zuffa |
| SERVICE | Support for the disassembly of the vacuum chamber for moving the Lolli facility |
| SERVICE | Instrument Management All |
| SERVICE | PCB creation through the service prototyping laboratory and assembly of the various electronic boards (8 in total) – Zuffa |
| VARIOUS | Test of commercial FPGA accelerator cards development of the platform for future applications on INFNcloud (in collaboration with the Calculation and Networks service) – Travaglini |
