I feel busier recently. So that’s the second year of Master?
I don’t have to take classes anymore, but the number of projects I’m involved in has increased to three: the STCF readout electronics, the White rabbit device, and the trigger electronics for water lenses, which is my graduation project.
Recently, I’ve been working mainly on the WR project. The project is expected to be finished by the end of this year. It’s quite stressful and difficult since there are only two of us working on it and we’re both beginners. First of all, it’s very hard to understand the principle of WR (I still don’t understand it completely), and secondly, although there are some similar projects done by the labs, it’s still very difficult to use it and design it by myself. The plan at first was for another student to draw the schematic and PCB for the multi-node module, and for me to write the FPGA code. However until he finished drawing, I was still at the stage of trying to understand the WRPC manual …… Now he is taking over the FPGA code part, and I am modifying the design based on his, and I am drawing a second board, the normal node module.
The front-end amplifier plate for STCF will be taken by my colleague to the Institute of Modern Physics in Lanzhou next week for joint testing with the detector.
Trigger electronics for water lenses is a topic I just finalized for my graduation project. I know almost nothing about it at the moment!
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