Q/C Box Electrical/Readout Setup

This page contains the ITk Inner Pixel Ring/Stave testing Q/C box electrical and readout configurations. 

Testing Procedure

• Pre-production testing with QC box: LLS Testing procedure
• Testing LLS with Felix: FELIX Readout for LLS
• Service connectivity for LLS

Testing Results

• pre-production L0 testing results
  • Yarr test results: log

B33 Q/C Box/Integration Setup Information 

• Q/C box infrastructure: CO2 cooling plant, Q/C box operations  
• DAQ Readout Systems: Link Aggregator, RCE, YARR, FELIX, Optobox   
• Online infrastructure: ITk DAQ network, DCS monitoring, Interlock, DCS and interlock for LLS 
• Electrical designs:
  • OSU Altium design repository (All IS electronics design. Ask Steven Welch for access.) 
  • Confluence TID electronics design repo: Data Transmission,  DAQ readout,  PCB ID/fab list 
  • Lessons learned in 19-x designs
• B33 Setup GoogleSheets (System Test setup tasks, Rack plan...)

ITk Pixel Electrical Service General Documentation

• Modules: Module Q/C Portal,  ITk Pixel Module Twiki
• On-Detector service FDR
• ITk Pixel Service Specification document (AT2-IP-EP-0007)
• ITk Pixel connectivity spreadsheet for electrical services (AT2-IP-ES-0016)
• Pixel Inner System Electrical Service Summary 
• MOPS FDR/PRR

Intro material for onboarding:

Silicon sensor lecture : https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Pu1-x6jB4QxNglKGF6yzDNMRiK5EgB3o
Module QC workshop January 2025 : https://indico.physics.lbl.gov/event/3021/timetable/#20250113.detailed

DAQ for the ITK Pixel Upgrade 2024 (Good overall intro): https://indico.cern.ch/event/1389137/contributions/5840294/attachments/2815738/4915494/DAQ_ITk_BBullard_March8-2024.pdf

Module Development for the ATLAS ITK Pixel Detector 2023: https://indico.tlabs.ac.za/event/112/contributions/3234/attachments/1164/1575/TIPP2023_202309.pdf

Loaded Local Support Testing ITK Week 05/12/2025

Old: Prototype testing with RD53A

Electrical Service/Readout Setup 

• 19-2 RD53A Coupled RIng Prototype
  • RD53A Coupled Ring powering setup
  • RD53A Ring electrical connectivity map
  • RD53A Ring PP0 DP readout map
  • RD53A Ring chip to lane map
  • DCS monitoring configuration
• 19-2 RD53A L1, L0 Stave Prototypes 
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• (Pre)Prod system 
  • PP0/twinax bundle connectivity maps
  • DCS configurations

Checklist for QC Box Testing

• check list (log the relative information also in the checklist while testing)

Testing results

• Digital scan results
• Test result for R0/1 ring
• Test result for L1 stave

Additional notes

• Quad module positions on the loaded ring
• Quad flex tests
• Triplet module positions on the loaded ring
• Triplet flex tests
• Ring readout Benfei DP cable tests
• Barrel readout QCEs 8K 10ft miniDP-DP cable tests