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UNI EN ISO 9001 CERT. N. 9105.CAEN

November 2006

EURITRACK Workshop

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CAEN SpACostruzioni Apparecchiature Elettroniche Nucleari

CAEN SpACostruzioni Apparecchiature Elettroniche Nucleari

• Spin-offs of the Italian Nuclear Physics Research Institute, CAEN was founded in 1979.

• 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.


Where we areWhere we are

• Close to Pisa and Florence international airports

• World-wide international sales and service network

CAENCAENViareggioViareggio PisaPisa

FlorenceFlorence

RomeRomeCAENCAENElbaElba

CERNCERN


CAEN Technologies Inc.CAEN Technologies Inc.

1st January 2005: CAEN starts the new US Company

www.caentechnologies.com


Italy22%

International78%

2005

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CAEN R&D Staff:110 people

(production not included)

CAEN Staff background(production not included)

CAEN Market


Microelectronics

Aerospace

Nuclear physics

RFID

CAENCAEN


Nuclear PhysicsNuclear Physics

• Custom developments

• Preminent position

• LV and HV power supply systems

• Front-end electronics

• Rad-hard & magnetic field tolerance

• NIM, CAMAC, VME standards


Nuclear PhysicsNuclear 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.

http://atlasexperiment.org/detector.html


MicroelectronicsMicroelectronics

• 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)

Micro-Art of TechnologyMicro-Art of Technology


AerospaceAerospace

• 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 onDiscovery STS91

Space to InnovationSpace to Innovation

AMS-02 HV Brick

Pamela Payload


• RFID System for:

– Transportation

– Security access & control

– Supply Chain Management, warehousing and logistic

• Automatic Identification market

– UHF Radio Frequency Identification System

– UHF range, ISO 18000-6 compliant reader

– Metal-mounting long range (4..6m) passive read/write TAG

– Semi-passive TAG for physic parameters data logging

The Art of IdentificationThe Art of IdentificationRFID: Radio Frequency IDentificationRFID: Radio Frequency IDentification


CAEN role in Euritrack projectCAEN 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).



Euritrack Power Supply SystemEuritrack 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 mVPP. - Double current full-scale range: 2 mA or 0.2 mA, - Current set/monitor resolution: 20 nA or 200 nA


CAEN role in Euritrack projectCAEN role in Euritrack projectEuritrack FrontEuritrack Front--end Electronic Systemend 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.


CAEN role in Euritrack projectCAEN role in Euritrack projectEuritrack FrontEuritrack Front--end end Electronic System Electronic System

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Yellow shadow: part enclosed in the delay rack

Splitter based on CAEN A315 component

Adapter (2x8 to 16) based on A967 CAEN cable

VME connection

Adapter (2x16 to 32) based on A967 CAEN cable

SPL



Data Acquisition SystemData Acquisition SystemBased on the trigger unit permits to synthesise the whole acquisition in a programmable FPGA.


CAEN experience in EU researchCAEN experience in EU research

CAEN was present in FP4, FP5 and FP6 with more than 10 projects

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)

Help in growing of branch activities (i.e. biomedical applications for microelectronic division)


CAEN experience in EU researchCAEN experience in EU research

Continuous monitoring of competitors and technological opportunities, improving the capacity of the technical and marketing team to identify new products and market opportunities.

CAEN was present in FP4, FP5 and FP6 with more than 10 projects


Security Systems – SME role Security Systems – SME role

Research

Application

Connection point between research and application

“Technology can’t solve all security issues but security is impossible to reach without using the technology”


Overall vision Overall vision At EU level different technological innovations have been strengthen through R&D projects (STREP, PASR,……).

Radiation & chemical detection sensors

Optical recognition

Cargo inspection systems

Electronic seals

Vehicle inspection systems

RFIdtags


Overall vision Overall vision Different security actions bridged through a common European platform with the aim to create inter-relationships among them.

Radiation & chemical detection sensors

Optical recognition

Cargo inspection systems

Electronic seals

Vehicle inspection systems

RFIdtags


Questions? Questions?

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