Two fellows from IT's Computing Support for Engineering group will give the following presentations (appr. 30 minutes each):
1) Electromagnetic Simulation Tools: from Accelerators to Detectors.
by Tomas Motos Lopez, CERN/IT
The design process of LHC involves new achievements in both the accelerator and detector technologies. Various commercial electronic design automation (EDA) programs are now available to address these problems. These include 3-D full wave electromagnetic field solvers used to characterise a great amount of different subsystems: particle
detectors, high-speed connectors, transmission line structures, and resonant cavities. This presentation will show how these tools are used at CERN and how they can interrelate with other engineering tools like PSpice or Matlab.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Tomas Motos Lopez holds a Telecommunications Engineering degree from the Polytechnic University of Valencia. He began his professional career at Alcatel Telecom Spain, as a digital designer. Since 1999 he works as a fellow of the IT division. His current interests include electromagnetic simulation, signal integrity, and digital design.
2) High-Level System Design using Foresight
by Giovanna DiMarzo-Serugendo, CERN/IT
The Foresight tool is a system-level modelling environment that allows one to capture, design, model, and simulate (execute) system specifications. With the help of this tool, designers can identify and eliminate early in the product development process errors, such as, conflicting requirements, functional and performance problems, etc.. The presentation will describe how to specify systems with Foresight and how to execute (simulate) system models. A practical example, the
application of the tool to the ALICE DAQ (data-acquisition) system, will conclude the presentation.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo is currently working as a fellow of the IT division on the specification and simulation of the ALICE DAQ System. Her interests are in software engineering and formal methods for distributed systems and multi-agent systems. Mrs Di Marzo Serugendo holds a M.Sc. in Mathematics, a M.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Geneva, and a Ph.D. in Software Engineering from the EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Federale, Lausanne)
