MVD info-by-subject page

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 me know, and I'll try to fix the problem.

General

Nomenclature conventions: barrel, endcaps, motherboard numbering, where is strip, pad #1, group # and location.
MVD home page. The official, complete one, but hard to use.
The Phenix homepage at BNL, the outside press archive, or mirror at BNL
Shifts: View and Request shifts, Run-3 page
People: All MVD folks, Hubert, John, Bernd, Rachel, the Oak Ridge Boys the LANL phone book
Email archives: phenix-mvd-l, lanlphenix-l, all mail archives at BNL
Phenix Web Publishing guidelines
All MVD notes in chronological order
Calendar: spring-summer 2000, who is at the BNL house?
Documents: Phenix operations doc , ancillary operations, photo album, Hazard Control Plan
Physics: Physics Analysis Notes
To do: 2002 to do list, 2003 to do list
Run II standing orders, call list
October 2002 review, year-3 configuration
Presentations from various authors

Mechanical

General: photo album, materials and thickness (1997), 1998 mass update , outer shell thickness, pad geometry
clickable map
Drawings: engineering drawings, more drawings in Jan's area, alignment jig,
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, thermoforming rohacell: (1), (2), and (3).
Cooling: cooling system links, level sensor and solenoid valve, our fan
Racks and crates: ancillary crates and rack
Cables and connectors: cable lengths, connector pin definitions in the signals document, cable routing, ancillary cables, cabling of the VME crate modules
Construction: construction page
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, inner enclosure assembly, procedures for Silicon, Kapton cable and MCM gluing, MVD (dis)assembly procedure, (not)-rotated silicon, using the torsion balance
suppliers where we got stuff
Configurations: year-3 configuration, run-4 configuration

Electronics

Silicon: strips, pads, hot pad assemblies, pad layout, 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: serial string specs, serial bits details, a program to set the serial bits, default serial settings, serial string order, setting the serial string on the PC, data packet format, description, layout, pictures, test plan, initial test results, summary of QA 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, modifications.
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:
Assembly and testing: pad assembly testing, strip assembly testing, electronics link page, LED testing,
DCM module: chain test page, Phenix central DCM documents, DCM counts , DCM maps
DCIM module: chain test page, Nance's DCIM document, userword-7, assembly drawings, parts list, diagnostics, test procedure, test results
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, the TCIM clock problem page,
PHENIX timing system: Steve A's notes, Granule Timing Module.
Arcnet: MVD arcnet files, John H's arcnet for the uninitiated, and ARCnet for linux, sketches of the AIM front panels.
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, mapping and addressing (year-3), 2000 map picture, pedestal problems, Schematic Viewer, MVD schematics and layouts
General electronics: links at U.Utah, Dawn VME products, Schroff VME products, 3M connector catalog, VME backplane pin assignments (J1 =top), VME 9U board specs, ExpressPCB, an inventory of what's at BNL, resistor color codes, capacitor codes, component identifier electronics Q&As

Ancillary systems

Ancillary system overview , sensors, relays and monitoring
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
Custom ADC: our custom VME module for reading 64 0-5V inputs into EPICS, board layout drawings, in postscript: page 3, page 5
Interlocks: Cooling system fault charts, and power distribution fault charts (html), the relay board, the motor relay switch board, miniature relays, wiring of the relays in the rack
Low voltage: see the MVD LV links
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, How to tune the Tx sensors, TMP12 data sheet, How to tune the TxFx sensors, How to tune the liquid Fx sensors, sensor count and wiring, sens distr PC boards, mother board monitor and spy line interface boards, the water level sensor, humidity sensors tests, temperature sensor map, inverse T-sensor map, liquid flowmeter remount, new sensor pcboards
VME modules commercial VME modules Epics serial support, in particular: epics for ipUnidig
Cooling: cooling and humidity system links, level sensor and solenoid valve
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, signal cable routing, ancillary cable runs, ancillary cables, cabling of the VME crate modules, heat exchange box combined H,L, power cable
Logic: logic line assignments, SBS Greenspring's OctalOpto, IP-Unidig-E, and VIP-616 carrier board, ancillary control software.
Part orders: shopping list

Software

PISA 1997 Pisa note, John's Pisa page, Pisa2000, run3, run4 geometry
Offline: Sangsu's page, John's software notes, Sangsu's FAQ page, preco howto, Allan's page,
Root: paw2root, root education at FNAL, tutorial at SLAC, tutorial at Nevis, colorful tutorial at U. of Washington
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.
Geometry: Mike's geometry software, the geometry data base project, sag in run-2
Ongoing analysis: miscellaneous links, investigation of the noise problem

Operations

Last update: 28 Jan 2005 - HvH