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  19   Thu Nov 20 14:05:21 2014 Tom DavinsonAIDA Tests at STFC DL - PCS, TD
Configuration per Elog entries:

https://elog.ph.ed.ac.uk/AIDA/3
https://elog.ph.ed.ac.uk/AIDA/4

- except -

FEE firmware
  - reverted release 0xa4ed006
    as used at RIKEN due to stability/data issues with most recent releases

Detector bias CAEN N1419 Programmable HV Power Supply
  - FAGND isolated from AGND (AGND = NIM chassis ground)
  - floating HV supply, <5mV pp noise specification
  - configured + polarity, i.e. core to nnaida11 & nnaida12 MSL type BB18 n+n ohmic strips
                                braid to nnaida12 & nnaida13 MSL type BB18 p+n junction strips
  - configured bias voltage to 200V, max bias voltage 200V, max leakage current 20uA,
    trip 10s, ramp up/down 1V/s
  - bias 200V, leakage current 4.9-5.1uA 

ASIC parameters

  Default ASIC parameters (EXPERIMENT/AIDA/2014Aug13-13.44.58) except
  - shaping time 5us
  - slow comparator 20 (hex 14)

R31

  - 207Bi source (serial AD6201) mounted c. 3cm from MSL type BB18 DSSSD 
  - p+n junction side faces 207Bi source
  - source serial number *away* from DSSSD

  - Pulser BNC PB-5
    fall time 1ms
    rate 10Hz
    delay 250ns
    ampl 1.00000V
    polarity -
    pulse top tail
    atten x1

    positive polarity test input via EG&G Ortec 433A

R32

  - 207Bi source (serial AD6201) mounted c. 3cm from MSL type BB18 DSSSD 
  - p+n junction side faces 207Bi source
  - source serial number faces DSSSD

Attachments 1-20 from R32
  3   Thu Sep 11 10:16:57 2014 Tom DavinsonAIDA Tests at STFC DL - PCS, SLT, TD
MSL type BB18-1000 2998-22 bias +200V I_L +3.27uA

BNC PB-5

amp 2.0V
atten x1
tau_d 1ms
freq 200Hz
pol - (output split via EG&G Ortec 433A to generate + polarity too)

PSU

TTi QL355TP  "-6V & +7V" output set @ -7V & +8V, @ FEE64 -6.7V & +7.3V 
TTi QPX1200S "5V" output set @ +6.2V, @ FEE64 +5.3V
 'linearly regulated output' PSUs  connected via standard FEE64 PSU chassis

Adaptor

nnaida11 & nnaida12 - polarity input (n+n ohmic strips)
  MSL type BB18 adaptor PCB rev 180713 LK 3 & 7
nnaida13 & nnaida14 + polarity input (p+n junction strips)
  MSL type BB18 adaptor PCB rev 180713 LK 1, 3, 5 & 7

FEE64

Note nnaida11 has been modified to remove the 470 Ohm resistors
linking the buffered preamp outputs from the ASICs to the buffer
amplifiers at the sampling ADC inputs. This effectively reduces
to zero the switching current load on the buffered preamp outputs. 

ASIC parameters

  standard *except* nnaida11 & nnaida12 preAmp reference 0x20 -> 0x90
  which will reduce linear output range by c. x2 but significantly stabilises
  negative polarity input ASICs

  varying nnaida11 & nnaida12 'Ibias Preamp SF' and 'Ibias Preamp' from 0x8 -> 0x0
  had marginal effect on stability and degraded ADC spectra

Typical pulser peak widths for nnaida11, 12 (ASICs #1-3) and nnaida13, 14 (ASICs #1-4)
c. 130-150ch FWHM.

Attachments

1-4 nnaida11, 12, 13, & 14 ASIC parameters
5-8 nnaida11, 12, 13, & 14 hit/rate patterns
9-12 nnaida11 ASICs # 1-4
13-16 nnaida12 ASICs # 1-4
17 nnaida13 ASIC # 4
18 nnaida14 ASIC # 4
19 nnaida11, 12, 13 & 14 'good events' statistics
  4   Thu Sep 11 16:12:06 2014 Tom Davinson and photos by PatrickAIDA Tests at STFC DL - PCS, SLT, TD
Changes from configuration described by Elog entry https://elog.ph.ed.ac.uk/AIDA/3
are as follows:


HV

Emco Q05-5 ISOLATED, PROPORTIONAL DC TO HV DC CONVERTER

Input TTi QL355T set +1.5V, Emco Q05-5 output +194.6V

Output RC filter 1uF x 1MOhm

i.e. a filtered, floating high voltage detector bias supply
cf. NIM-bin grounded Silena 7710 Quad Bias used previously


ASIC Adaptor PCB

nnaida11 & nnaida12 LK 3 & 7
nnaida13 & nnaida13 LK 1, 3, 5, & 7

HV + -> nnaida11 & nnaida12
HV - -> nnaida13 & nnaida14 
DSSSD grounded locally at nnaida12 & nnaida13 adaptor PCBs
by ground links LK 1 & 5 (cf. Silena 7710 Quad Bias Supply
used previously).


ASIC settings

Default ASIC settings (see attachments 1-4)


Observe stable operation of both positive and negative polarity
FEE64s using default ASIC parameters and a floating HV detector
bias supply


Attachments
1-4 nnaida11, 12, 13, & 14 ASIC settings
5-8 nnaida11, 12, 13, & 14 hit/rate patterns
9-12 nnaida11, 12, 13, & 14 ASIC # 4 ADC spectra
13 nnaida12 ASIC # 1 waveforms
14 nnaida14 ASIC # 1 waveforms
15 Emco Q-series catalogue
  24   Wed Jan 28 16:12:52 2015 Tom DavinsonAIDA Tests at STFC DL - 27-28.1.15 - TD & PCS
MSL type BB18-1000 2998-22 bias +200V I_L +3.52uA


Detector bias CAEN N1419 Programmable HV Power Supply
  - FAGND isolated from AGND (AGND = NIM chassis ground)
  - floating HV supply, <5mV pp noise specification
  - configured + polarity, i.e. core to nnaida11 & nnaida12 MSL type BB18 n+n ohmic strips
                                braid to nnaida12 & nnaida13 MSL type BB18 p+n junction strips
  - configured bias voltage to 200V, max bias voltage 200V, max leakage current 20uA,
    trip 10s, ramp up/down 1V/s


BNC PB-5

amp 0.5V
atten x1
tau_d 1ms
freq 100Hz
pol - (output split via EG&G Ortec 433A to generate + polarity too)


PSU

Standard AIDA FEE64 PSU + new filter PCBs


Adaptor

nnaida11 & nnaida12 - polarity input (n+n ohmic strips)
  MSL type BB18 adaptor PCB rev 180713 LK 3 & 7
nnaida13 & nnaida14 + polarity input (p+n junction strips)
  MSL type BB18 adaptor PCB rev 290114 LK 1, 3, 5 & 7

+/- test inputs terminated by 50 Ohm

DSSSD grounded locally at nnaida12 & nnaida13 adaptor PCBs
by ground links LK 1 & 5

Adaptor PCB grounds connected by thick copper braid (see attached images)

FEE64

nnaida11 2b:09:ce
nnaida12 2b:09:e8
nnaida13 2b:09:07
nnaida14 2b:22:55

FEE firmware release 0x16cee018


ASIC parameters

  Default ASIC parameters (EXPERIMENT/AIDA/2014Aug13-13.44.58) except
  - shaping time 2us
  - slow comparator 64 (hex 40)
  - nnaida11 & nnaida12 preAmp reference 0x30 -> 0x38
    which will reduce linear output range but significantly stabilises
    negative polarity input ASICs


Typical pulser peak widths for nnaida11, 12, 13 and 14 c. 130-150ch FWHM.
Without the copper braid connecting the two adaptor PCBs the peak widths
are typically 200-250ch FWHM.



The problem observed last week (leakage current > 20uA, bias c. 3V, i.e. an
apparent 150k short) was found to be due to a fault on the n+n side FEE Adaptor
PCB rev 290114. Specifically the left hand connector was faulty. The exact
nature of the fault has not yet been determined but will be investigated.

For time being the rev 290114 PCB has been replaced by a rev 180713 PCB
with a 2-way IDC connector from the HV cable (core) to LK1.
  201   Tue May 3 15:45:17 2016 TDAIDA Temperatures Log
AIDA temperatures (ASIC, Virtex, PSU) are recorded in the file:

/MIDAS/log/temperatures.txt
  108   Fri May 22 11:14:21 2015 TDAIDA T9 test bed - nnaida11 DAQ stall
AIDA T9 test bed

nnaida11 DAQ stall (0 AIDA SYNCs) at DAQ GO. Merger not in use. Fixed by STOP/GO cycle.
Attachment 1 - FEE64 firmware revision
  927   Wed Nov 22 14:52:43 2023 NHAIDA Pulser Calibration
Connect pulser to all p+n FEEs

Turn on pulser, 100 Hz (attachment 3 for settings), rates OK (attachment 1)

1 minute at 10V.. 9V.. 1V (5X atten) 

Most FEEs OK (attachment 2), aida07 and aida08 weird?

FILE: PULSER21NOV23/R4

Check in S4, one pulser LEMO not in fully, reseat and try again

File R5... much better! (attachment 4)
  886   Wed Aug 9 14:40:28 2023 Carole, Nic, JeroenAIDA HV SUPPLY & PULSER TEST

Tests with the HV supply (CAEN N1419ET) and Pulse Generator ( BNC PB-5 ) in the detector lab on the crate behind the DEGAS detectors, carried out the 9th August 2023

Both modules were plugged

Test 1: pulse generetor on 2 Hz

- DC, 50 ohm - HV OFF - attachment 1

- DC, 50 ohm - HV OFF, Zoom on the noise - attachment 2

- DC, 50 ohm - HV 50 V, Zoom on the noise - attachment 3

 

Test 2: HV supply Channel 1 - CORE and 2 - BRAID, pulse generator still on

- AC 1 Mohm - HV OFF - attachment 4

- AC 1 Mohm - HV 50 V - attachment 5

No differences were observed between crate OFF, HV OFF and HV 50 V. An important periodic noise (green on the pictures) was observed and was significantly smaller when unpluging the HV module from the crate. The thickness of the baseline noise seems to be comparable to entry 882, attachment 33-35.

 

  739   Wed Aug 22 11:38:11 2018 OH, TDAIDA GSI Setup Noise Tests
Currently seems to be a problem with the memory check in the system wide checks that produces the message shown
- attachment 1

DAQ is being run with the following options - attachment 2 and 3

The PSU Temperature readout in aida07 appears to not be working. Shows a permanent value of 160 degC - attachment 4
Water inlet and outlet feel cold so believe it is an artiface
aida07 also appears to quite often take longer to mount than the others. Often coming in 5 minutes later than them.

Only tested aida01 - aida04 for noise as we lacked the required HDMI type c cables to set up a full MACB branch
structure.

We appear to have considerable noise issues in the FEE modules with adapter boards on but no DSSD cables
connected but test input loop and pulsar connected.
The pulsar appears to be the circuit of doom for this noise. With all test input ports connected to a pulsar
chain each FEE is seeing in the region of 800k rate of good events with discriminator thresholds set to 255.
Removing the pulsar cable from the end FEE but leaving the chain in place reduces this to around 500k.

Grounding an adapter board to the copper cooling plate also further reduces this noise somewhat but still leaves
rates of around 300k.

If an adapter board is isolated from the chain so that it has nothing connected to it the rate drops to around
300-400 which is just the rate of the sync pulses.

For the following screenshots aida01 and aida02 are isolated adapter boards.
aida03 and aida04 are connected via lemo cables via the test input to other FEE modules in their chains.
Waveforms for the 4 FEEs - attachment 5-8
Full statistics for the 4 FEEs - attachment 9-12
Good events comparison - attachment 13

It appears we need to provide a low resistance path between the FEE cooling plates like we do in RIKEN.
Currently the measured resistance between FEE 6 and 10 is around 2 ohm.

Also we may need to isolate the pulsar signals themselves

A potential difference of 5mV was also measured between the chassis of the NIM modules and the cooling plates.
Resistance was 0ohm when the power was on.
  740   Wed Aug 22 13:50:30 2018 OH, TD, Reply by PCSAIDA GSI Setup Noise Tests
> Currently seems to be a problem with the memory check in the system wide checks that produces the message shown
> - attachment 1
> 
> DAQ is being run with the following options - attachment 2 and 3
> 
> The PSU Temperature readout in aida07 appears to not be working. Shows a permanent value of 160 degC - attachment 4
> Water inlet and outlet feel cold so believe it is an artiface
> aida07 also appears to quite often take longer to mount than the others. Often coming in 5 minutes later than them.
> 
> Only tested aida01 - aida04 for noise as we lacked the required HDMI type c cables to set up a full MACB branch
> structure.
> 
> We appear to have considerable noise issues in the FEE modules with adapter boards on but no DSSD cables
> connected but test input loop and pulsar connected.
> The pulsar appears to be the circuit of doom for this noise. With all test input ports connected to a pulsar
> chain each FEE is seeing in the region of 800k rate of good events with discriminator thresholds set to 255.
> Removing the pulsar cable from the end FEE but leaving the chain in place reduces this to around 500k.
> 
> Grounding an adapter board to the copper cooling plate also further reduces this noise somewhat but still leaves
> rates of around 300k.
> 
> If an adapter board is isolated from the chain so that it has nothing connected to it the rate drops to around
> 300-400 which is just the rate of the sync pulses.
> 
> For the following screenshots aida01 and aida02 are isolated adapter boards.
> aida03 and aida04 are connected via lemo cables via the test input to other FEE modules in their chains.
> Waveforms for the 4 FEEs - attachment 5-8
> Full statistics for the 4 FEEs - attachment 9-12
> Good events comparison - attachment 13
> 
> It appears we need to provide a low resistance path between the FEE cooling plates like we do in RIKEN.
> Currently the measured resistance between FEE 6 and 10 is around 2 ohm.
> 
> Also we may need to isolate the pulsar signals themselves
> 
> A potential difference of 5mV was also measured between the chassis of the NIM modules and the cooling plates.
> Resistance was 0ohm when the power was on.

Re:- Memory check problem..... the required log file is not at /MIDAS/XilinxLinux/...... The file is a log file placed
in the FEE64 root file system. The code will be altered in time to reflect the new location by using a local variable.

Re:- aida07. This module should be urgently removed and sent back to Daresbury for repair. This measurement could be
indicative of the worse problems with this module.

Re:- Earthing. Please could you add some photos of the installation. ( apologies if they are already here ;-) If I
recall it is worth adding a low resistance connection ( big copper braid ) from the NIM bin to the adaptor board earths.
  195   Mon May 2 07:37:03 2016 TDAIDA FEE layout
                                                   UP
                                       nnaida25
                                       nnaida26
                                       nnaida1  nnaida9   nnaida17
LEFT                                   nnaida2  nnaida10  nnaida18                                   RIGHT
nnaida31  nnaida23  nnaida15  nnaida7                               nnaida3   nnaida11  nnaida19  nnaida27
nnaida32  nnaida24  nnaida16  nnaida8                               nnaida4   nnaida12  nnaida20  nnaida28
                                       nnaida5  nnaida13  nnaida21
                                       nnaida6  nnaida14  nnaida22
                                       nnaida29
                                       nnaida30
                                                  DOWN

                                           <LOOKING UPSTREAM>

LEFT-RIGHT n+n ohmic strips
UP-DOWN    p+n junction strips
  193   Sun May 1 07:59:08 2016 CG,PV,TDAIDA Detector Configuration
UPSTREAM


Detector  Serial  Operating  CAEN N1519  CAEN N1519  Bias    FEE64                  Bias Config   
#         #       Bias (V)   Addr #      channel #   Cable                          Core      Braid

1         3058-2   +100       0           0          1       nnaida25, 27, 30 & 32  nnaida27  nnaida29 (LK5)
2         3058-3   +100       0           1          2       nnaida18, 20, 22 & 23  nnaida20  nnaida22 (LK1)
3         3058-4   +100       0           2          3       nnaida17, 19, 21 & 24  nnaida19  nnaida21 (LK5)
4         3058-5   +100       0           3          4       nnaida10, 12, 14 & 15  nnaida12  nnaida14 (LK1)
5         3058-6   +100       1           0          5       nnaida9, 11, 13 & 16   nnaida11  nnaida13 (LK5)
6         3058-7   +100       1           1          6       nnaida2, 4, 6 & 7      nnaida4   nnaida6 (LK1)
7         2977-15  +100       1           2          7       nnaida1, 3, 5 & 8      nnaida3   nnaida5 (LK5)
8                             1           3          8


DOWNSTREAM

Notes
_____

MSL type BB18 PCB ground links (LK3 & LK7) not fitted

To be checked
  105   Sat May 9 11:28:32 2015 TDAIDA DSSSD dis-assembly
AIDA DSSSD #1-3 stack disassembled without problem. DSSSDs returned to boxes in the BF3 AIDA storage area. Attachments 1 & 2 show DSSSD #1 (3131-11) - spot the difference!
  407   Sat Oct 29 07:26:59 2016 TDAIDA ADC & disc data synchronisation check
Following analysis of AIDA ADC & disc readout ( see https://elog.ph.ed.ac.uk/AIDA/404 )
changed timestamp resolution from 1us/channel to 20.48us/channel


Offline sort (from disk file)

Attachments 1-3  s1-s32  # ADC data items per FEE64, s100-132  # disc data items per FEE64 (20.48us/channel)

Attachments 4-5  s1000   4 * ( module # - 1 ) + ASIC # versus timestamp (ch 0-95 ADC data, ch 100-195 disc data,
20.48us/channel)

Attachments 6-7  MIDASsort terminal session logs for *offline* sort


Online sort (from TapeServer)

Attachment 8     s1-s32  # ADC data items per FEE64, s100-132  # disc data items per FEE64 (20.48us/channel)

Attachments 9-10 s1000   4 * ( module # - 1 ) + ASIC # versus timestamp (ch 0-95 ADC data, ch 100-195 disc data,
20.48us/channel)

Attachments 11-12 MIDASsort terminal session logs for *online* sort

Attachment 13   MIDASsort FORTRAN sort routine sync.f

Attachment 14   Spectrum titles for the above sort routine

Note

1) data is discontinuous as a function of timestamp because we are sampling buffers
from the TapeServer rather than sorting all data as above
2) a low rate of timewarps is reported which appears to be an artifact of the buffer
sampling - no timewarps reported by analyses of the corresponding data files
 
  302   Fri Jun 10 12:51:19 2016 TDADC offsets - pass 1 -18.15 3 June 2016
Column order:

Channel = (fee# - 1)*64 + (asic# - 1)*16 + channel
FEE
ASIC
Channel
Offset (ADC channels)
Offset error (ADC channels)
INL (%)
# peaks
Spectrum name

ADC offset to be used as follows:

 adc(i) = INT( ABS( raw_adc(i) - 32768 ) - offset(i) + 0.5 )

This is a first pass analysis with ~90% of the ADC offsets and something approaching ~95% achievable
(64 channels of nnaida19 not operational).
 
Recommend ignoring those with INL > 1%, offsets > 500 channels
  606   Sun May 28 09:55:11 2017 PVADC offset value from pulser walkthrough run May2017/R28 R29
ADC offset calculation using data from pulser walkthrough runs, see:
https://elog.ph.ed.ac.uk/AIDA/603

Attachment 1,2: excel and text file with tabulated ADC offset values.
Attachment 3,4: 2D histogram pulser amplitute vs channel number (with gain matching applied) for validating the
calculation.

Note: Channel with ADC offset=0 means ADC offset could not be calculated properly due to poor resolution/low
statistic
  862   Tue Feb 9 11:44:21 2021 OH, TD, CA, LS9th Feb GSI Dry run
Database file - 2019Dec19-16.19.51
Current threshold at 0x64


13:27 Recovered from power cycle
      System wide checks all ok - Attachments 1-6
      *NB* Synchronise the ASIC clocks doesn't work - Attachment 7
      ASIC Control ok
      FEE temperatures ok - Attachment 8

      Bias and leakage currents ok - Attachment 9
      New taper service menu - Attachment 10

      Pulser peaks log plot - Attachments 11-12
      1.8.L pulser peaks - Attachment 13-14
      Waveform plots - Attachment 15-16



      FEE7 we aren't seeing a HIT pattern but we are seeing ADC data items -> It was a corrupted options file

15:20 DAQ Crashed after enabling data transfer
      Problem was not configuring the tapeserver correctly
      Have recovered from this. There are now no histograms for FEE09
      This is because the options file has been corrupted during startup.
      From the statistics it appear we are still reading data on the FEE
      Chosen to let the DAQ run in this state to test stability for the time being
  647   Thu Jun 8 23:57:26 2017 ZLiu, TD9June2017 8:00-16:00
08:06 System wide checks all ok
         implantation profile - attachment 1 
         count rate - attachment 2
         Bias and leakage currents ok - attachment 3 
         DAQstatistics

08:30 BRIKEN and BigRIPS stop their DAQs
      AIDA on file R7_604

08:32 BigRIPS starts run 3090
      BRIKEN starts run 85
      AIDA on file R7_604

08:44   BRIKEN and BigRIPS stop their DAQs

            AIDA on file R7_607

08:49    BigRIPS starts run 3091

             BRIKEN starts run 86

             AIDA on file R7_608

09:42      BRIKEN and BigRIPS stop their DAQs

              AIDA on file R7_621

 *** DAQ synchronisation reset ***

see BRIKEN 2017 Elog http://ribf-exp.riken.jp/elog/BRIKEN2017-June/323

09:51    BigRIPS starts run 3093

             BRIKEN starts run 87

             AIDA on file R7_623

10:06   System wide checks all ok

            Bias and leakage currents ok - attachment 5
           count rate - attachment 6

            implantation profile - attachment 7

          FEE temperature - attachment 8
     

10.30 layout spectra - see attachments 9-18

analysis of RIBF128/R7_630 - deadtime < 0.5%, no ts timewarps, 4x MBS timewarps - see attachment 19

online analysis - ADC & disc data synchronsed - see attachment 20

10.36 all histograms and SortSas spectra zero'd

 

10:53   BRIKEN and BigRIPS stop their DAQs

            AIDA on file R7_636

10:54             

            BigRIPS starts run 3094

            BRIKEN starts run 88

            AIDA on file R7_636

11:49    BigRIPS and BRIKEN stop their DAQ

            AIDA on file R7_649

 

11:49   BigRIPS starts run 3095

           BRIKEN starts run 89

          AIDA on file R7_649

12:15 system wide checks -- OK

         see attchments  21-26

12.54 DAQ stop

AIDA file RIBF128/R7_664

 

12.55 DAQ start

AIDA file RIBF128/R7_664

BRIKEN file 3096

BigRIPS file 90

 

13.55 BigRIPS team entered the beam line area to place a 1.5 mm Al degrader

          DAQ stop

          AIDA file on  RIBF128/R7_679

          BRIKEN file 3096

          BigRIPS file 90

 

14:03     BigRIPS starts run 3097

          BRIKEN starts run 91

          AIDA on file R7_680

 

14:52    beam stopped

 

15:00   BRIKEN and BigRIPS stop their DAQs

            AIDA on file R7_694

15:02            

            BigRIPS starts run 3098

            BRIKEN starts run 92

            AIDA on file R7_694

15:48  beam stopped

15:52  beam back

16:06   BRIKEN and BigRIPS stop their DAQs

            AIDA on file R7_709

16:08           

            BigRIPS starts run 3099

            BRIKEN starts run 93

            AIDA on file R7_710

16:20   system wide checks--OK

          see attachments 27-32

 

17:06   BRIKEN and BigRIPS stop their DAQs

            AIDA on file R7_723

17:08           

            BigRIPS starts run 3100

            BRIKEN starts run 94

            AIDA on file R7_724

  151   Wed Feb 10 10:56:02 2016 CG, TD9-10 February 2016
MSL type BB18(DS)-1000 serial 2998-22
Bias +200V, I_L +=6.540uA, ambient temperature +19.9 deg C
 
DSSSD - AIDA adaptor PCB cabling
 
4 off LH Coupler (Kapton PCB, 5cm), 2x 34-way Samtec ribbon cable (45cm), RH coupler(Kapton PCB, 10cm)
 + 3M 1245 1.4mil copper foil screen ribbon cables + RH coupler only (i.e. not LH coupler)
 + drain wires -> gold-plated Lemo-00 test input connectors 
 
nnaida 11 & 12 AIDA adaptor PCB rev B
nnaida 13 & 14 AIDA adaptor PCB rev C (LK1 fitted) 
ground links LK3 & LK7 fitted to nnaida11-14 AIDA adaptor PCBs

Heavy duty copper cable connects copper front end frames of FEE modules
Nitto 5011N conductive gasket between FEE module and front end frames
 
Standard ASIC settings
 nnaida 11 & 12 - negative input
 nnaida 13 & 14 - positive input
 
Pulser BNC PB-5 
Fall time 1.0ms
Rate 100Hz
Delay 250ns
Ampl 5.00000V
Polarity +
Pulse top Tail
Atten 10x
Clamp ON
- polarity via Cooknell SA1 Summing Amplifier
 
207Bi source, approx centred on DSSSD, approx 2cm from DSSSD
 
File R5
shaping time 0.5us
slow comparator 16 (dec)
 
File R6
shaping time 8us
slow comparator 16 (dec)
start: stop: 18.01
 
File R7
shaping time 8uS
slow comparator 12 (dec)
start: 18.02 stop: 09.29 10.2.16
spectra saved to disk 11.37 BST (sic)
 
10.2.16
-------
 
10.50 Bias +200V, I_L +=6.010uA, ambient temperature +20.0 deg C
 
File R8
shaping time 8uS
slow comparator 10 (dec)
start: 10.52 stop: 13.12 
spectra saved to disk 14.13 BST (sic)
 
attachments 1 & 2 - hit patterns during R8

DAQ stalled at start of R9
Run control (updated) showed all FEEs going
No good events from nnaida12 & 14, nnaida11 & 13 OK
nnaida would not stop, would not reset
Power cycle to restart

Ignore R9

File R10
shaping time 8uS
slow comparator 10 (dec)
start: 13.27  stop: 14.09
spectra saved to disk 15.10 BST (sic)
Pulser walkthrough 9.00000V-1.00000V @ 1.0000V step

see attachment 3

File R11
shaping time 8uS
slow comparator 10 (dec)
start:  14.12 stop: 14.38
spectra saved to disk 15.39 BST (sic)
Pulser walkthrough 1.00000V-0.200000 @ 0.1000V step

See attachment 4 & 5

Ignore R12 - same issue as before R9

File R13
shaping time 8uS
slow comparator 8 (dec)
start:  14.50 stop: 15.11
Pulser amplitude 5.00000V

File R14
shaping time 8uS
slow comparator 8 (dec)
start:  15.12 stop: 15.20
Pulser amplitude 5.00000V & 0.20000V

File R15
shaping time 8uS
slow comparator 8 (dec)
start:  15.20 stop: 15.28
spectra saved to disk 16.33 BST (sic)
Pulser amplitude 0.10000V & 1.00000V
see attachments 6 & 7

For slow comaparator setting 8 (dec) and with the above BNC PB-5 pulser settings above
the slow comparator rate decreases from the expected 100Hz (plus source) to < 50Hz
between pulser amplitude 0.20000 and 0.10000V. 


15.32 Bias +200V, I_L +=6.550uA, ambient temperature +19.6 deg C
  116   Thu Nov 5 16:28:05 2015 CG, TD5 Nov 2015 - New kapton cable tests @ DL

New Kapton PCB design (2x 0.45m + inter-connecting PCB, no ground plane layers)  under test with small system in T9.

3 cables modified to remove ground connection.

 

When just connected to system and BB18 2998-20, with no additional grounding or shielding of the cables

and bias of  +200V (leakage current  +6.2uA, ambient temp +27 deg C) to nnaida14, we observed average pulser peak widths

of ~250ch FWHM

Waveforms were just noise.

 

Added heavy duty copper braid between adapter PCBs, the small metal box for the detector and Cu tape and drain wire to the kapton connected to nnaida14.

This reduced the peak widths to ~160ch FWHM

Adding grounding between the adapter PCBs and the NIM bin chasis increased the peak widths.

Waveforms for nnaida11-13 remained unchanged, but expected (albeit noisy) traces could be seen for nnaida14).

        ------> Patrick: with ASIC1 waveforms for all nnaida turned on, we found they would occasionally stall for some. e.g. of 4 being observed, upon update, only 1 or 2 actually would. Stop-Go did not resolve this. Load/check ASIC resolved issue.

nnaida14 developed double peaking of pulser peak.

Note waveforms exhibit significantly faster risetime than previous Kapton PCB variants => lower C, as expected

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