Agata Project
Agata Week Octobre 2016
X. Lafay/N. Karkour / D. Linget
• Segment board status V2.21
(hardware and firmware)
•181 installed cards @ Ganil
•29 Core board status V2.1r2
• (hardware and firmware) never
installed
•Total
210 cards
 Carrier board V3 (IPNO) V4 (CSNSM)
 CSNSM Production : 24 cards
 22 are Installed @ GANIL
 IPNO production : 33 cards
 24 cards: Installed @ GANIL
•Total :
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• PreProcessing Hardware
 2015  Finally some news :
 Fuse sockets reliability decreases with time. Bad
contacts are formed and/or oxidation . Fuse series
resistors increases, Final Voltage supply decreases..
 Patch (known since 2008) : solder fuses directly to pcb.
 Made on preproduction @ Padoue not transmitted to V3
IPNO nor V4 CSNSM
 ALL carriers V3 et V4 concerned.
 few cards modified  OK
 10 fuses per carrier (total of 480 fuses were unsoldered
and resoldered back)
 48 cards modified, Trip to GANIL in 2016
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Rapport Mission of CSNSM and IPNO @ GANIL on January 25th 2016.
Arrival at GANIL Monday 1 February at 14:30, Installation at 15:30. Short meeting with Caterina
for how we will proceed.
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2 people from each lab only 1 from IPNO stayed for 2 days instead of 5 days initially.
The cards were unplugged properly fibers and numbering the locations.
Leave at 18:00 because of emergency state . Note: IPNO technician must go on Tuesday
evening.
The procedure: remove cards and make the change fuses at once.
Tuesday is dedicated to making fuses for V3 and Laurent helped IPNO.
FrontPanels and the light guides were mounted. Pic Voltages were adjusted.
Wednesday morning everything was reconnected back (fibers, digitizers, and network)
After a general restart 2 V3 cards had power alert. It was removed the crate,
 one had a fuse holder in the power connector for ATCA, the other had a drop of
solder.
BUT
Thursday morning all the cards responded to ping. It was good
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 The reset was complicated, carrier cards referred hardware error messages .
 Some mezzanines were not quite well plugged on connectors (rush
to finish on Tuesday before IPNO technician left).
 Laurent took over some fuse soldering on some V3 cards
 It was quite nervous when the system is powered on and one card left, we
managed to make the system working but the procedure was too long.
 Then we lost a carrier V3: the 3.3 power. We tried to fix it but without success,
 Another card was replaced by a V4 and all FPGAs were reprogrammed.
 Finally, Thursday night we still had not managed to get a full setup of 24
electronic channels.
 Reboot of the anodes for the lincos but unsuccessful.
 Left on Friday the system partially tested TBContinued with Catarina on
Monday.
 Conclusion Patch done but reboot was not easy and few cards were broken
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• PreProcessing History of Maintenance
 Carriers V3
 Carriers V4
 18 et 24 le 25/06/2015
 59 et 62 le 20/04/2015
 59 et 62 le 04/05/2015
 59
le 20/05/2015
 58 et 67 le 04/06/2015
 19 et 38 le 24/02/2016
 39
le 04/03/2016
 29 et 30 le 16/03/2016
 53 et 57 le 01/10/2015
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•Preprocessing conclusion
 Lot of time consuming even few cards can take enormous time. Some rreasons :
 Orsay test bench quality deteriorates.
 Digitiser synchronisation problems.
 Hectic pulser to generate 36 signals.
 Old pizza boxes for DAQ fails very often.
 Servers and programs fail to connect to Hardware.
 Every power up procedure can take from 5 minutes to 1 day or never.
 Manpower problems to spend to repair test bench and to look after the
cards.
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THANK YOU
AND THANKS TO ALL THE
ENGINEERS AND PHYSICISTS WHO
HELPED US IN MAINTAINING THESE
ELECTRONICS
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