Application Telescope? Microscope? Time machine? Combination of the three?
Collider detectors are about the size of a small apartment building. Fermilab's two detectors-CDF (Colloder Detector at Fermilab) and DZero-are about four stories high, weighing some 5,000 tons (10 million pounds) each. The particle collisions occur right smack in the middle of the detectors, which are crammed with electronic instrumentation in every possible nook and cranny.
Each detector has about 800,000 individual pathways for recording electronic data generated by the particle collisions. The signals are carried over nearly a thousand miles of wire and cable-all connected by hand and tested individually. You need lots of patience to work on a high-energy physics experiment.
Elma Solution Backplane for recording electronic data in a CDF.
VME64x based backplane, according to VIPA with up to 600A on return path.
Why did Elma win? Customer requirement:
8 weeks lead time including concept phase for high power connection, design of PCB and manufacture of backplane.
Elma Company: Elma Germany
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