Name: 14th MicroTCA Workshop for Industry and Research
Start: 2025-12-01T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-12-04T15:00:00+01:00
Location: No location set

14th MicroTCA Workshop for Industry and Research

from Monday 1 December 2025 (09:00) to Thursday 4 December 2025 (15:00)

Monday 1 December 2025

09:00

09:00 - 17:00
Tuesday 2 December 2025
09:00 Advanced Tutorial: Hardware Development in MicroTCA
Advanced Tutorial: Hardware Development in MicroTCA
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Hardware Design in MicroTCA - Behzad Boghrati (MSK (Strahlkontrollen))

10:00 EMI consideration for precision analogue electronics in MicroTCA - Frank Ludwig (MSK (Strahlkontrollen))
Basic Tutorial
Basic Tutorial
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Introduction - Kay Rehlich (not set)

09:05 The Basics - Ralf Waldt (Schroff GmbH)

09:35 MicroTCA Management - Heiko Koerte (N.A.T. GmbH)

10:05 Communication links, clocks and triggers - Kay Rehlich (not set)
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Advanced Tutorial: Firmware and Software Frameworks, FWK and ChimeraTK
Advanced Tutorial: Firmware and Software Frameworks, FWK and ChimeraTK
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 FWK Firmware Framework - Cagil Guemues (MSK (Strahlkontrollen)) Gianmarco Ricci (MSK (Strahlkontrollen))

11:45 Rapid hardware integration with the ChimeraTK software framework - Martin Christoph Hierholzer (MSK (Strahlkontrollen))
Timing session
Timing session
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 The MRF Timing System - Jukka Pietarinen (Micro-Research Finland Oy)

11:30 The White Rabbit based Timing System - Dietrich Beck (GSI)

12:00 The DESY x2 and x3 Timing Systems - Victor Andrei (DESY)
12:30 DESY Tour 01
DESY Tour 01
12:30 - 13:30

Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:45
Contributions

14:00 Welcome to DESY - Edgar Weckert (FS (Forschung mit Synchrotronstrahlung))

14:15 Introduction to Workshop - Holger Schlarb (DESY)

14:30 Deployment and Development of MicroTCA at ESS - Faye Chicken (European Spallation Source ERIC)

14:45 Status of MicroTCA at the Spallation Neutron Source - Thomas Justice

15:00 Summary of MTCA Workshop in Japan 2025 and Status of MTCA at J-PARC in 2025 - Fumihiko Tamura (J-PARC Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency)

15:15 RF Beam Noise Feedback System for the High-Luminosity LHC Crab Cavities - Dimitar Hristov Marinov (CERN SY-LLRF)
15:45 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:45 - 16:15
16:15
16:15 - 18:15
Contributions

16:15 New FPGA, CPU and ADC/DAC products - Karl Judex (EMCOMO Solutions AG)

16:30 Overview of DMCS Projects and MicroTCA.4 Developments - Dariusz Makowski (Lodz University of Technology)

16:45 Engineering Challenges in Scaling MicroTCA for High-Power Double Full-Size AMC Configurations - Christian Ganninger (nVent SCHROFF)

17:00 New building blocks and uplink solutions with the NAT-MCH - Heiko Körte (N.A.T.)

17:30 Libera Brilliance X: MTCA.4 Readout Electronics for Electron Synchrotrons. - Peter Paglovec (Instrumentation Technologies)
Wednesday 3 December 2025
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Keynote: Systematic Approaches for Accelerator Controls - Paul Chu (Nanjing University)

09:30 An “industrial server” made of MicroTCA building blocks (& something else) - Herbert Erd (N-A.T GmbH)

09:45 Smart Infrastructure around MTCA Crates - Udo Weiss (nVent SCHROFF)

10:00 VITA 93 QMC - Expanding Modularity and Performance: Unlocking New Potential for MTCA Platforms - Tim Tews (TEWS Technologies GmbH)

10:15 Vadatech: Accelerating Your Development (DAQ ToolSuite) - Alex Annis (Vadatech)
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Experimental point-to-multipoint distribution of WR-Based clock and PPS signals through µTCA Backplane - Javier Benavides Caro (Safran Electronic & Defense Spain S. L.) Juan Fernández (Safran Electronic & Defense Spain S. L.)

11:15 DAMC-X3TIMER: Status Update on Hardware, Firmware, and Timing Infrastructure for PETRA IV - Hendrik Lippek (MSK (Strahlkontrollen))

11:30 Precision Timing & Advanced RF Solutions for Particle Accelerators - Jiaoni Bai (KVG Quartz Crystal Technology GmbH)

11:45 NGCII Detector Controller synchronization using White Rabbit - Matthias Seidel (European Southern Observatory (ESO))

12:00 Micro Hertz Temperature and Phase Stability of a LISA Phasemeter based on MicroTCA as ground-support equipment - Christian Darsow-Fromm (UNI/EXP (Uni Hamburg, Institut fur Experimentalphysik))
12:30 DESY Tour 02
DESY Tour 02
12:30 - 13:30

Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 First results of CW diagnostics for future accelerator - Olaf Hensler (MCS (Control System))

14:15 Custom data acquisition using FMCs and MicroTCA - René Geißler

14:30 First Major Release of 'fwk' - Cagil Guemues (MSK (Strahlkontrollen))

14:45 Machine control and beam diagnostics prospects for the DALI project - Klaus Zenker (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)

15:00 Progress of MTCA Platform and Applications in Large-scale scientific facilities - Hongrui Cao
15:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 18:00
Contributions

16:00 Integration of prototyping and cost-effective XILINX-AMD SoC/FPGA platforms in the DESY Firmware Framework - Alejandro Piñas (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)

16:15 Flashless, Network-Based Booting of MicroTCA AMCs - Patrick Huesmann (MSK (Strahlkontrollen))

16:30 Actually utilizing the standardization – Applying (C)OTS software for monitoring and controlling MTCA installations - Simon Fischer (Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics)

16:45 AMD Versal ACAP Devices for low latency and high compute applications - Jens Michaelsen (Avnet Silica)

17:00 ESS Linux: Yocto based linux on MicroTCA CPUs - Gabriel Fedel (European Spallation Source)

17:15 MicroTCA Development for PIP-II Beam Instrumentation at Fermilab - Robert Turner White (FNAL)

17:30 Fast mode IPMB-L discussion on 14th MicroTCA Workshop - Alexey Mitrofanov (COMTEL Electronics GmbH)
19:30 Dinner
Dinner
19:30 - 22:30
Thursday 4 December 2025
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Summary of the 2025 MicroTCA workshop in China - Junqiang Zhang (Chongqing Universtiy)

09:15 Update on the development and deployment of the MicroTCA based detector controller, NGCII - Mathias Richerzhagen (ESO)

09:30 The DAMC-DS5014DR: A High-Speed, High-Performance RFSoC-Based Digitizer Utilizing AMD Zynq UltraScale+ Technology in a MicroTCA.4 Form Factor for Diverse Scientific Applications - Behzad Boghrati (MSK (Strahlkontrollen))

09:45 2025 Status Report — MYRRHA/MINERVA LLRF System - Andrea Bellandi (SCK-CEN)

10:00 Status Update on the Open-Source Synchronous Multi-Axis Motion Controller Solution for Large-Scale Experimental Physics Projects - Michael Randall (None)
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Advancing Optical Interlock System with Custom MicroTCA RTM Solution for MYRRHA - Krisztian Ferencz

11:15 High channel count Simultaneous Analog IO to MTCA.4 - John McLean (D-TACQ Solutions Ltd)

11:30 Bringing an AMC into operation with ChimeraTK - Christian Willner (MSK (Strahlkontrollen))

11:45 MicroTCA for photon beamlines - on-the-fly scans with spec - Martin Tolkiehn (FS-PETRA-D (FS-PET-D Fachgruppe P24 (Chem.Cryst.)))
12:30 Close out - Holger Schlarb (DESY)
Close out
- Holger Schlarb (DESY)
12:30 - 12:45

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