Juan Cruz Estrada (PostDoc)
Service Work:
  CFT Electronics
    24+ hrs per week
    Service Task Group: Run IIb
    Service task Leader:Marvin Johnson
    Description: "Since winter 2002 I have been working in a replacement for
      the CFT/PS electronics. The original idea was to replace the front
      end chips in the current system (SIFT+SVX) with
      a new chip (TriP) that could operate at 132 nsec. Now we know that
      we Tevatron will never run at 132 nsec, but the new electronics solves
      many of the problems in the current electronics and gives the possibility
      of timing readout. For this reason we are now studying the possibility
      of the replacement as part of the DZERO upgrade.
      A decision on the possible electronics upgrade has to be
      done early next year."
        "In the next few months: get ready to test fully instrumented 
      AFEII prototypes, these are now being design and should arrive by the 
      end of the year.
Updated: October 20, 2003