Author: Zhang, S.Z.
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MOPPC077 Open Hardware Collaboration: A Way to Improve Efficiency for a Team 273
 
  • Y.-M. Abiven, P. Betinelli-Deck, J. Bisou, F. Blache, G. Renaud, S.Z. Zhang
    SOLEIL, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
 
  SOLEIL* is a third generation Synchrotron radiation source located near Paris in France. Today, the Storage Ring delivers photon beam to 26 beamlines. In order to improve the machine and beamlines performance, new electronics requirements are identified. For these improvements, up-to-date commercial products are preferred but sometimes custom hardware designs become essential. At SOLEIL, the electronic team (8 people) is in charge of design, implementation and maintenance of 2000 electronics installed for control and data acquisition. This large basement and small team mean there is only little time left to focus on the development of new hardware designs. As alternative, we focus our development on the open Hardware (OHWR) initiative from the CERN dedicated for electronics designers at experimental physics facilities to collaborate on hardware designs. We collaborate as an evaluator and a contributor. We share some boards in the project SPI BOARDS PACKAGE**, developed to face our current challenges. We evaluated TDC core project, and we plan to evaluate FMC carrier. We will present our approach on how to be more efficient with developments, issues to face and the benefit we get.
*: www.synchrotron-soleil.fr
**: www.ohwr.org/projects/spi-board-package