IASF-PA Electronic Workshop designs and develops electronic equipments for astrophysical experiments. Other than his institutional work with INAF, IASF-PA Electronic Workshop also collaborates with other Scientific Institution to design specific electronic equipments (INFN, CNR, Physics Department of Palermo University, Private Companies). IASF-PA Electronic Workshop designs electronic apparatuses starting from specific requirements and uses the latest technology for the ultimate scientific instruments development.
IASF-PA Electronic Workshop activity fully covers the experiment development chain:
- instruments manufacturing & calibration;
- experimental set-up arrangement for physical data measurements;
- experiment management using Host Computers.
IASF-PA Electronic Workshop activities is mainly related to design & development of:
- Front-End for very fast photon detectors;
- high speed storage & data acquisition systems;
- high speed transmission interfaces.
To reach the excellence in the field of electronic design, IASF-PA Electronic Workshop uses the latest and advanced techniques and a continuous effort is done to maintain the know-how up to date following the state of the art in the field of:
- very fast & low noise Front-End design;
- microelectronic high density PCB design (SMD components);
- high density and high speed firmware design (FPGA);
- high speed transmission interface design (std BUS like SATA, USB, ultra-SCSI);
- CAD development & simulation design (OrCad, Pspice, Quartus, VHDL);
- Software drivers development & hardware management (.NET SDK Platform, C, Visual C++, C#, LabView);
Today IASF-PA Electronic Workshop has know-how and technical resources to perform activities suitable for new and manifold scientific investigation criteria.
Main workshop activities:
2025 “ACQUISITION & CONTROL SYSTEM PROJECT FOR COSMIC RAY DETECTOR”.
Firmware design description of an acquisition and control system for cosmic ray detection instruments.
2017 “GAW Electronics: test of synchronism and simultaneous acquisition”.
Demonstration test of the suitability of the GAW electronics to compose an array of acquisition modules capable of identifying, capturing and storing rapid events such as those produced by “Cherenkov radiation” phenomena.
2002 “ULTRA” Experiments.
UVScope detector for atmospherical and Cherenkov phenomena observation at see level.
A IFSI -Tourin, Grenoble Institut des Science Nucléaires & LIFE-Lisboa collaboration.
2001 Co-ordinate Project – Agency 2001: “CdTe Detector”.
CdTe & CdZnTe X ray detector ( Hard X ray and soft gamma ray, EDEX).
A TESRE-Bologna, Politecnico-Milan & Brera-Observatory collaboration.
2001 “GAW” (Gamma Air Watch) Cherenkov image Telescope.
High energy (>150 Gev) wide angle multianode photomultipliers array detector.
1996-2001 “BA.BY.” (Background Bypass) Experiment.
Balloons Campaign Milo 1998, 1999, 2001.
300 – 400 nm band, UV background observation.
1990-95 England. “PLASTEX”, “STAR CLUSTER”, “T&T” Experiments.
LST (Limited Streamer Tubes) & RPC (Resistive Plate Chambers) in a large Array Detectors for EAS observation.
Leeds Physics’ Department and INFN-Naples collaboration.
1989 “HPGSPC”. SAX satellite Experiment.
“Dual Constant Fraction Timing” for HPGSPC detector. Burst Lenght electronic discriminating X ray from Cosmic background, in 3÷120 Kev energy range.
1978-89 “FIGARO” Experiment. Balloons Campaign Milo 1982, 1986, Australia 1988.
Crab & Vela pulsars observation. cmq 3600 NaI(Tl) detector.
A CESR-Tolouse, CEN-Saclay, Rome Physics’ Department and IAS-Frascati collaboration.
1972-73 “Gamma 1.10 Mev”. Balloons Campaign Birgi 1972, Milo, 1973.
1-10 Mev”. Gamma radiation observation, phenomena originated by Cherenkov effects.
A LFCTR-Milan collaboration