PH-ESE Group Meeting 13 Jun. 2014

1. PH-ESE Group Meeting13 Jun. 2014

2. Agenda General News Philippe Five-Yearly Review 2015 Lore Tailleu

3. Content • ESE composition • Latest changes • Involvement in projects and services • Three highlighted projects • MARS exercise • The 1-step saga • 2014 figures • Seminars • Two administrative news • New ECFA workshop on HL-LHC • Work in the building • Latest news (including news “people”)

4. ESE Composition • 53 Staffs (+ Evelyne) • 36 Engineers • 9 Technical Engineers • 8 Technicians • 12 Fellows • 3 CMS, 3 LCD, 1 Medipix, 2 NA62 • 2 Doctoral Students • 6 Technical Students • 4 CMS • 1 VIAs • 1 Iberic Trainee • 1 TTS technician • Technical Training Scheme • 2 French Trainees • Plus a number of people working with us • 11 ALICE • 2 ATLAS • 1 BE • 1 DGS • 1 LHCb • 1 Pool • 2 active retired members

5. Changes since January Departures • 2 retirements • 1 LD • Now a user • 1 fellow • 4 doctoral students Arrivals • 2 trainees • 1 technical student • Next future • 2 fellows in July & Sept. • TDC ASIC & xTCA • 1 Staff paid by ALICE • ThanushanKugathasan • 3 Students • 1 Techno and 2 CMS

6. People Involvement (1)

7. People Involvement (2)

8. People Involvement (3)

9. People Involvement (4)

10. Projects in the Group • We are involved in a number of projects • No way to go through all in a reasonable time • Next slides give the complete list of projects • To be looked at quietly when at home • One project per section “highlighted” • 2 finished ASICs • 1 “futuristic” activity • Also to be noticed • The “white paper projects” are going to production • DC-DC converter • GBT chipset and Versatile Link components

11. Common Projects and Services (1) • Electronics Pool • Continuous work (several 1000’s equipment's to be handled). • Power Supplies and Crates • Very important work for organising the preventive maintenance of LHC experiments PS and crates • xTCA evaluation project • GBT project • Chip set (GBTx, GBT-SCA, GBTIA and GBTLD). Production to be launched • Seminar last November • Versatile Link Project • Several flavours. Production of about 20000 pieces to be launched this year • 2 seminars in the past and another one last February • GLIB and GBTx Demo Board • Seminar March 2013 • Evaluation work on Silicon Photonics devices • Seminar last January

12. Common Projects and Services (2) • Radiation hard and magnetic tolerant DC-DC converters • 10000 – 15000 to be produced this year • Several seminars. Latest one May 2013 • Current TTC & TTC PON • Seminar in December 2012 • RD53 • Now that Jorgen is not in charge of the seminars he is a good candidate to give one... • High resolution TDC development • Seminar in March 2013. A fellow will arrive in July to design a complete chip • IP blocks, IC technologies, IC tester and CAE tools • Continuous work to support users • New contract for 65 nm technology being signed (in between Europe and Taiwan) • EU projects • Marie Curie Steering Group

13. Work for Experiments • ALICE • Electronics coordination • ITS upgrade project • Seminar June 2013 • ATLAS • Electronics coordination • ALFA • Tracker upgrade • ABC130 chip available • Central Trigger upgrade • Seminar April 2012 • CMS • Electronics coordination • TCDS (CMS TTC) upgrade • Backend electronics and optical links for new pixel detector • Optical transmitters for calorimeter trigger upgrade • Beam condition/radiation monitoring • GEM readout electronics • Tracker upgrade • System, ASICs, Hybrids, TSV (Ipdia) • Seminar last May • Pixel phase 2 • LHCb • Electronics coordination • Velopix development • Including FE ASIC • TOTEM • Electronics coordination • NA62 (Run starts next fall, 1 week before expected date) • Straws readout • LKr calorimeter readout electronics • Seminar last December • Installation work with the help of pool • GigaTracker • TDCPIX available. Seminar last month • Front-end hybrids and services • Medipix • Several chips (Medipx3, Timepix3, Smallpix, Clicpix) • TSV work with Leti • LCD • Pixel development • Pulsed power (Seminar last March) • Beam loss and radiation monitoring • 2 ASICs dev.

14. Highlighted Projects TimePix3 TDCPix Silicon Photonics

15. TimePix3 ASIC • For a complete description see XaviLlopart’s seminar • http://indico.cern.ch/event/267425/

21. TDCPix ASIC • For a complete description see Matt Noy’s seminar • http://indico.cern.ch/event/302077/

22. GigaTrackerHybrid Pixel Detector

23. The TDCPix Top Level 40x45 pixels 300x300um2 Asynchronous End-of-Column Per-pixel hit signal 360 dual TDC channels Leading & trailing edges ~97 ps Self-triggered operation Up to 210 MHits/s 4x3.2Gb/s serialisers SEE Tolerant TMR of state and configuration

24. TDCPix Wire Bonded to the Test Card

25. Functionality Tested

26. TDCPix Performance 65ps Full Jitter < 65ps @ 2.5fC -> Time Walk Corrected Resolution ~ 72ps

27. TDCPix: the team G. AglieriRinella (FE) S. Bonacini (ME) J. Kaplon (ME) A. Kluge (FE) M. Morel (FE) M. Noy (FE) L. Perktold (Doctoral student) K. Poltorak (Fellow) Very nice example of collaboration between several people to design a complex piece of hardware in a minimum time

28. Silicon Photonics • For more details see the BE students seminars • https://indico.cern.ch/event/281584/ Marcel Zeiler • https://indico.cern.ch/event/283077/ Sarah Seif El Nasr

34. The 1-step Saga

35. Career Profile with the Old Scheme • Very linear • 1 step every year (until saturation) • 2 steps from time to time

36. Old Career Profile Very happy in the first part

37. Old Career Profile Much less in the second part

38. “Standard” Career Profile

39. Career Evolution There is a saturation but the overall take home pay is larger  it should be well received

40. Career Evolution Not really...

41. New Scheme • Smaller value of a step • Periodic step = 1 step • Longer evolution possible in a career path • Limits the saturation effect • More modulation in step distribution • Could be used to make “smooth” career profiles • Initial modulation proposal on next slides

42. Recommended Distribution of Steps

43. Recommended Distribution of Steps

44. How it has been applied...

45. What went wrong • “Periodic step only” • At the end of the day, advancement and promotion is a budget affair • The budget involved in the new scheme was the same as before • “Every eligible staff member brings 2 steps” • So a single step advancement appears as a punishment when it’s not • A “0-step” is a strong warning • Giving 1-step to 25% of eligible became a problem • Next slides to say how we deal with it in ESE

46. A few rules to know • 25% of the eligible staff has to have 1-step • The total budget (money) used should not exceed the allocated one • As the step value is different in each career path, it means we cannot use steps from CP B to give additional steps to CP E for instance (we could do it the other way around) • As much as possible, all career paths should be treated in the same way • Not really true for high grades

47. A few things to know • In general the MARS interview goes well but it does not mean that because it went well you’ll get a lot of steps • Similarly getting 1-step does not mean you badly worked the last year • If it was the case, you would have gotten a 0-step • Career evolution is to be looked over several years • The average number of steps received per year gives the slope of your career profile • Exceptional work is to be rewarded with AES (award for exceptional service) • An additional step is for your entire life • Receiving 1-step is not a bad mark in your CV

48. How do we apply the rules in ESE (1) • In average we have to give 12 – 13 1-step per year • Not always to the same 12 – 13 people • We “favour” the advancement of LDs • They do not have a secure position • They are (in general) young and hence in the steep part of a “standard” career profile • We “favour” those for whom a change is to occur • E.g. CP change • We “disfavour” oldest staff in high grades • Who are reaching the flat part of a “standard” career profile

49. How do we apply the rules in ESE (2) • We give 1-step the year after a promotion or an IC has been awarded • It might appear stupid but in general before a promotion or an IC you have been very well treated • We try to circulate the “mistigri” • We sometime give an EAS to those who got the 1-step • If budget allows and even though we should not • It does not mean there are no difference between people (see following slides)

50. A bit of statistics (1)