This page is intended to document a test setup being developed in 2015 for testing of the MaPSA-Light chip for the CMS outer tracker upgrade. Anyone involved is encouraged to edit to keep this up to date!

OuterTrackerBostonU - Eric Hazen's page to keep track of proposed work in 2016 and beyond

MaPSALight Assembley Tracker

• MaPSALight_Tracker.xlsx

Hardware (Electronics)

• MaPSA Light Mini Module Debug Log -- November 2016
• MPA-Light manual: MPA_Light_Manual_V_1_2.pdf
  • Updated figures clarifying configuration interface: fig1 and fig2
• Micro-module test system
  • Updates 11/9/16
    • MapsaTestboard_11-9-16.pdf als Clock Changes
    • MaPSA-Light-Test/TopCarrier_11-9-16.pdf and BottomCarrier_11-9-16.pdf
  • upper carrier board: (updated) schematics layout
  • lower carrier board: (updated) schematics layout
  • test board: schematics layout

• Original test system (single plane)
  • Tester board (connected to GLIB by a fancy FMC cable)
    • Schematic Rev 6/17/2015: MPA_LIGHT_TESTBOARD_v2.pdf (notes)
  • Wirebond board (with 6 MaPSA chips wire-bonded)
    • Schematic (draft) PDF: MPA_LIGHT_WIREBOND_2015May15_.pdf
    • Layout (early preview) gerbers: MAPSAlight_wirebond-5layer_06_rev1a.zip / PDFs: version_06_pdf.zip
• GLIB Project
• FMC-To-PTA.pdf schematic for FMC used for test beam signals (from Ryan Rivera)
• STIB.pdf schematic for FPGA board used to supply test beam signals (from Ryan and Matt Jones)

Hardware (Mechanical)

• Physical test stand baseplate,Physical test stand GLIB/Testboard holder

Trigger Signal Tester

• Test Gadget Documentation
• TrigGenTest_2015-10-23.tar.gz -- v1 Test gadget firmware
• TrigGenTest_2015-10-29.tar.gz -- v2 Test gadget firmware TestGadgetV2ReleaseNotes
• TrigGenTest_2015-11-16.tar.gz -- v3 Test gadget firmware TestGadgetV3ReleaseNotes bit file SVN Repository

Notes

• TestBeamSignals

Firmware

• Specification for October Test Beam
  • testbeamdoc.pdf -- first version by Kevin
  • TestBeamDoc -- updated version by Eric
• Latest Firmware - Wu's download area
  • EricFirmwareNotes -- some notes on various firmware versions
• [[https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/pub/Main/MaPSALightTest/test_address_table_v1.xml
• Preliminary description and status: status report.txt (from 6/12/15)
  • Note that the sequencer described in this report does not need to be implemented yet for the simple tests envisioned
• SVN repository (possible future home of Firmware)
  • svn+ssh://svnuser@svn.cern.ch/reps/cmsptdaqup/Firmware/tags/Tracker/
  • https://svnweb.cern.ch/cern/wsvn/cmsptdaqup/Firmware/tags/Tracker/

Software

• BU SVN Area - currently has only a few simple python scripts (contact us for username/password)
• Rutgers Git Repo - First untested software for test board voltage tests. (Mainly adapted from Davides code). DAQ software not included yet

Reference

• CACTUS repository with IPBus and supporting libraries

Meetings and Talks

• 2015-12-17 Winter OT Workshop at Fermilab Agenda including talks on MaPSALight test results
• 2015-11-12 Tracker Week Phase 2 Electronics meeting with first beam test results Agenda (see talk by Kevin Nash)
• 2015-06-18 Brown Workshop Agenda - Logistics - Hazen Slides
• 2015-06-24 Phone meeting with Yuri. Discussed test-beam triggering. See notes: 2015-06-24-Yuri
• 2015-08-27 Phone meeting with Yuri, Kevin, Dan G, S.X. Wu, Meenakshi. See notes: 2015-08-17-Eric

-- EricHazen - 2015-06-17

• MaPSALight_Tracker.xlsx: MaPSALight_Tracker.xlsx