List of slide presentations

• CODD resolution, November 2003, (pdf 77kB)
      What CODD measures, with what resolution and how it is calibrated. Some suggestions for improvements.
   
• Auhmuehle 2004, June 2004, (pdf 635kB)
      Outlines the requirements of the PS orbit and trajectory measurement system. PU properties, number and location. Revolution frequency range, machine timing. Beam types, bunch structure, RF gymnastics. Beam synchronous timing system.
   
• Darmstadt 2004: Electronics, October 2004, (pdf 259kB)
     PS pick-up properties. Sources of interference. Radiation environment. Electrode matching. Amplifier block diagram. Sigma-delta separation, hybrids. Low noise pre-amplifier, variable gain amplifier. Calibration. Example signals.
   
• Darmstadt 2004: Algorithms, October 2004, (pdf 429kB)
      Acquisition of signals. Numerical integration and base line restoration. Beam synchronous timing, inputs to the system. Calculating beam position, measurement resolution. Orbits and trajectories. Finding the machine tune.
   
• Algorithms 2, February 2005, (pdf 191kB)
      On the occasion of a video conference with the other FP6 participants on February 9. A new base line restoration algorithm that works really well, at least for positive sum signals. Reference frequency generation using a PLL. How to handle (some) RF gymnastics. Loop stability analysis.
   
• Trajectories, April 2005, (pdf 442kB)
      On the occasion of a visit to the I-tech organised workshop at their premises on April 10 & 11. It summarises our environment, the general ideas of the projected trajectory measurement system and goes into some details of the implementation of the synchronisation algorithm with regards to the ease of implementation in programmable logic.
   
• Algorithms 3, May 2005, (pdf 200kB)
      On the occasion of another visit to I-tech at their premises on May 10 & 11. More on loop dynamics, translating the algorithm into integer arithmetic and about harmonic changes.
   
• DIPAC 2005, May 2005, (pdf 940kB)
      Slides presented at DIPAC 2005 in Lyon on June 7 2005. Essentially a synthesis of all that came before.
   
• PScodd (pdf 92kB), Analogue (pdf 700kB) and Algorithms (pdf 175kB).
      Transparencies used on the occasion of the trajectory measurement project collaboration meeting at CERN, on November 17 & 18, 2005.
   
• CAS on DSP slides (pdf 1470kB) and (Extra slides) (pdf 70kB)
      Lecture on the subject of analogue to digital conversion, given at the occasion of the Cern Accelerator School on Digital Signal Processing, Sigtuna, Sweden, June 1-9, 2007.
   
• BI meeting on PS TMS (pdf 83kB)
      Slides presented at a BI-section Trajectory Measurement System meeting on August 10, 2007.
   
• CAS Dourdan slides (pdf 1440kB)
      Lecture on the subject of analogue to digital conversion, given at the occasion of the Cern Accelerator School on Beam Instrumentation, Dourdan, France, May 26 - June 6, 2008.
   
• APC meeting slides (pdf 297kB)
      Slides about the problems that have plagued CODD lately. APC meeting, July 4, 2008.
   
• Specification board meeting on TMS (pdf 277kB)
      Slides explaining the TMS system, with some measurement results. Specification board meeting, November 20, 2008.
   
• Specification board meeting on TMS (pdf 1237kB)
      Slides about the TMS system. Specification board meeting, June 8, 2009.