sPHENIX MAPS tracker discussion

["Liu, Ming Xiong" <mliu AT lanl.gov>]

Hi Jo and Cameron,

Thanks for the update. From your measurements, it seems grounding could also play some roles.

  

Have you tried 600Mbps with these two short cables, any errors?

 

Cheers,

Ming

 

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From: sPHENIX-MAPS-l <sphenix-maps-l-bounces AT lists.bnl.gov> on behalf of SPHENIX MVTX <sphenix-maps-l AT lists.bnl.gov>
Reply-To: Jo Schambach <schambachjj AT ornl.gov>
Date: Friday, October 13, 2023 at 2:57 PM
To: SPHENIX MVTX <sphenix-maps-l AT lists.bnl.gov>
Subject: [Sphenix-maps-l] test of "short" SAMTEC cables

 

With the help of Cameron, I just tested one of the “short” Samtec cables wrt data transmission errors at 1.2Gbps. We used the telescope setup for that purpose.

I first verified that all staves of the telescope have no PRBS errors at 600Mbps with the “default” cables currently installed. This seemed to be OK.

I then programmed the RUs with the firmware that uses 1.2Gbps for the data transmission from the staves. With the default cables I saw PRBS errors at that speed in RUs 0, 9, 15, 18, and 21 (i.e. 5 out of 8 RUs), with the worst being 21 and 9.

Cameron then installed one of the shorter cables, but the first cable used had at least 2 of the 9 chips not lock to the transceiver on the RU.

A second cable worked OK with the transceiver lock, however, there were immediate PRBS errors on all of the chips. I tried increasing the operating voltage to 1.9V (from 1.8V), but got the same result. Increasing the driver current to its max also didn’t make a difference.

 

So this is not looking too good for the prospect of using higher speed readout from the staves….

 

Jo

 

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