The MicroTCA standard has evolved from a telecom oriented market towards industrial and science applications over the years. It still supports actual industrial technologies. To keep the MicroTCA standard able to solve future applications it has to adapt to the progressing technologies. A main goal in the development is to keep all changes compatible with the existing standard to preserve the...
Cooling is always a „hot“ topic when configuring crates. Especially now, with the next generation of MicroTCA currently in discussion within PICMG we will soon see modules that consume much more power, going beyond the existing 80 Watts limit. This talk calls to mind the basics of cooling and what mistakes to avoid to keep the modules cool. It also shows which tools crate manufacturers use to...
Light through a wall - The ALPS experiment is a seemingly proposal to make “light shine through a wall”. To achieve this, a laser beam is directed through a powerful magnetic field generated by decommissioned dipole magnets from the HERA ring accelerator. In the event that WISPs (weakly interacting sub-eV particles) do actually exist, some of the photons (particles of light) in the laser beam...
We will present a set of new open hardware modules in MTCA format developed in a large collaboration of research and private sector institutions including Creotech Instruments, Warsaw University of Technology, US ARL, University of Maryland, University of Oxford, QUARTIQ, M-Labs, CERN and LNLS. The modules allow for efficient and flexible integration of multi-purpose control systems. Use cases...
Atom Computing venture-backed startup in Berkeley, California that is building a quantum computer based on optically-trapped neutral atoms. Inspired by particle accelerator control systems developed for high energy physics, we have selected MicroTCA 4 as the basis for the electronic control system that prepares, manipulates, and reads out qubit states that are the basis of quantum...
