The ATLAS Level-1 Calorimeter Trigger

ASICs

Two rounds of NRE are allowed for all ASICs. Both rounds are included in total costs, but only the first round is counted in the CORE costing. Sufficient ASIC devices are required to populate all boards including spare and test boards, plus 25% spares. If the manufacturer does not provide tested parts, a further allowance must be made for manufacturing yield.

All ASICs are tested on receipt. A test board is required for each ASIC type.

MCMs

Two rounds of NRE are allowed, as for ASICs. 25% of spare fully-assembled MCMs must be provided. To allow for MCM manufacturing yield, 20% of spare substrates and commercial dies, and 25% of spare ASIC dies, are ordered, i.e.

All MCMs are tested on receipt, using a separate test board.

Connectors and cables

Sufficient connectors, including backplane connectors, are provided to populate all modules and leave 20% spares. 20% spare cables are provided, equipped with connectors.

All other commercial components.

Sufficient devices are ordered to populate all boards including spare boards and prototypes, plus 10% spares. BGA devices (e.g. some FPGAs) which are harder to remove from PCBs require 25% spares.

Modules.

Sufficient production modules are built to equip the running trigger system, plus 10% spare modules (rounded up to the next whole number). Where the number of modules is small, a minimum of 4 spares is required

Crates and Backplanes.

For each type of crate, fully assembled and tested crates including backplanes are provided to equip the running experiment, plus one working spare at the experiment, plus crates required for module debugging and testing at the experiment and in home institutes when the experiment is running.

Power Supplies

Unless provided in a common pool within ATLAS, a minimum of 4 spares of each type of power supply is needed.

Number of Iterations.

The costing assumes the following numbers of iterations:

The three iterations of modules are Prototype, Pre-production (i.e. "Module 0") and Production modules. For costing purposes, it is assumed that the prototype modules are not used in the experiment, but that any errors on Pre-production boards can be corrected and they can be used. A final round of NRE is allowed for Production modules. All rounds of module NRE are included in CORE costings.

C.N.P. Gee 10-May-2000

This page was last updated on 16 December, 2013
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