Conveners
Session 7
- Axel Winter (Herr)
The “2025 MicroTCA/ATCA International Workshop for Large Scientific Facility Control” was held by Chongqing University (CQU), in Chongqing, China, on September 15-17 2025. The workshop was held on-site and online at the same time. More than 90 participants from 18 institutes and 13 companies joined the workshop. 41 talks were presented, which included hardware, firmware and applications in...
In the time since the last MicoTCA workshop we have achieved laboratory first-light with the final two detector families to be supported by our MicroTCA.4 based general detector controller, NGCII. Besides CCDs, the workhorse detector for ground-based astronomy, we have also brought up Geosnap, a fully digital detector transmitting its pixel data through high-speed digital signals. Meanwhile,...
This talk reviews the DESY MicroTCA card, DAMC-DS5014DR, designed for high-speed multi-channel data acquisition and signal generators. Based on the AMD Zynq Ultrascale RFSoC ZU47DR, it features eight 14-bit, 5 GSPS ADCs, eight 14-bit, 8.92 GSPS DACs, extensive programmable logic (PL) resources, and an ARM-processing system (PS). In this AMC card, the AC or DC coupling options precondition the...
At SCK CEN in Belgium, the MYRRHA project aims to build the world's first Accelerator-Driven Subcritical reactor (ADS). The initial phase centers on implementing a 100MeV, 4mA CW superconducting linear proton accelerator – with the unique technical challenge: the maximum allowable beam trip duration is less than 3 seconds. The accelerating field stability requirement is ≤0.1% and ≤0.1 degrees...
