MVD info-by-subject page

This page is an informal index of MVD web info. It is not necessarily absolutely complete, so please check other MVD links accessible from the main MVD homepage if you have trouble finding information. Also, if you can't easily locate some MVD info on this page, or find a bad link, LET US KNOW, and we'll try to fix the problem.

Last update 20 Mar 2000 HvH

General

Nomenclature conventions: barrel, endcaps.
MVD home page. The official, complete one, but hard to use.
The Phenix homepage at BNL
MVD notes 1991-present.
shifts: all shifts, LANL only UCR only, LANL shifts by name.

Mechanical

General: photo album, materials and thickness (1997), 1998 mass update ...
clickable map
Drawings: engineering drawings, more drawings in Jan's area,
Rohacell: miscellaneous properties, photos (1), (2), (3), NIM paper, humidity test (94-2), fabrication data base, cage dimensions, drawings, thickness, environmental studies (95-11), parylene coating and specs, radiation hardness, QC procedures, cage deformation, plenum shrinkage, long-term cycling,
Cooling: cooling system links
Racks and crates: ancillary crates and rack
Cables and connectors: cable lengths, connector pin definitions in the signals document, cable routing
Assembly procedures: gluing the LDO cooling tube, putting together the heat exchanger box, putting together the endplate stack, making the enclosures: Richard's '98 note, and his '99 note

Electronics

Silicon: strips, pads, testing, data base, pictures,...
Kapton cables: design, a picture
Custom chips: AMU-ADC: test results, timing and control req's for the AMU-ADC. The measured and simulated correlator signals behavior, corr reset picture from Mike E.
MCMs: slow serial specs, data packet format, description, layout, pictures, test plan, test results, it's alive!,...
MCM pc-board prototype email reports, control software, command line interface, picture of correlator control signals, correlator mode timing diagram, outstanding problems, internal calibration results, reset frequency tested, noise in the edge channels, occupancy of AMU cells, test results of the discriminator output,
More test results from John: serial bits, ADC ramp setup on PC/MCM, ADC control signals, ADC output signals, preamp spy mux. MCM current test results page.
Mode bits: see table 3 of the GTM document for placement on Glink. Mail from Glenn about definitions, Mode bits source document, Version IIb, TomC's discussion of the 'synchronize' command, alignment bit email from Glenn.
And finally: MVD Mode Bits!
Power/comm boards: a picture. design layout and testing doc, and test results on the prototype.
Motherboards: Design, layout and testing doc; Young Gook's test results, and an updated version
Chain test: These chain test notes point to individual pages on: CHZY, Arcnet, Test boards, Mother board, Power/comm, Ancillary services, SEB, MTM, GTM, PPG, Trigger, and some more that are listed separately below:
DCM module: chain test page, Phenix central DCM documents, DCM counts
DCIM module: chain test page, Nance's DCMIM document
Trigger Interface Module (TIM): chain test page, R.E.Lind and Nance's TIM pdf file.
Timing and Control Interface Module (TCIM): chain test page, Mike Emery and Nance's TCIM pdf file.
Granule Timing Module
Cabling: a html copy of the signals document, and John's motherboard connector listings.
Phenix central electronics page.
1996 beam test: test results, pictures,...
John's electronics links.
General electronics: links at U.Utah, Dawn VME products, Schroff VME products, 3M connector catalog, VME backplane pin assignments (J1 =top)

Ancillary systems

Ancillary system overview
On-board ADC's: Readout of MVD onboard voltages , motherboard serial readout tests
Spy lines: Multiplexed readout of MVD spy lines , and test results, spy line interface boards
Our custom VME module for reading 64 0-5V inputs into EPICS.
Interlocks: Cooling system fault charts, and power distribution fault charts (html), the relay board
Low voltage: see the overview, LV power supplies, LV distribution modules, LV mapping, what we got assigned from BNL, supply specifications, list of LV supplies, LV distribution board schematic in pdf or ps, LV distribution board layout in pdf or ps, Steve Boos' LV page
High voltage: see the overview, HV distribution modules, distribution cards, supply specifications LeCroy module test results, HV distribution board schematic in pdf or ps, HV distribution board layout in pdf or ps,
EPICS, epics graphical tools, HiDEOS, Epics graphical design tools, CapFast GUI, Steve Pate's EPICS for dummies
Sensors: Rachel's stuff, including sensors and EPICS, sensor distribution boards, ADT14 data sheet, TMP12 data sheet, sensor count and wiring, sens distr PC boards, mother board monitor and spy line interface boards, the water level sensor, humidity sensors
VME modules commercial VME modules
Cooling: cooling and humidity system links
Radiation monitors: from Fermilab, setup in Phenix, James' page
Optically isolated analog line drivers
Chris Witzig's big Phenix Ancillary Document
Safety. This is a re-hashing of information in preceeding docs.
Cables and connectors: cable lengths, connector pin definitions in the signals document, cable routing
Part orders: shopping list

Software

Offline - PISA
Offline - STAF
John's software notes
Phenix raw data format, MVD input and output data structures
software to do list
Gnu distribution at MIT
Phenix raw data format repository: frozen for MDC, and updated ones.
Mock Data Challenge MDC homepage, and the MDC computer farm status.

Administrative

All MVD folks, Hubert, John, Bernd, Rachel, the Oak Ridge Boys
email archive of phenix-mvd-l
email archive of lanlphenix-l
The mail archives at BNL
Phenix Web Publishing guidelines
All MVD notes in chronological order

Last update: 20 Mar 2000 - Hubert van Hecke