Resources

Conception

• Mechanics CAD: CATIA, Inventor, Mechanical Desktop, AutoCAD, ShowCad
• Electronic CAO : Analog Workbench (Cadence), PADS, Allégro

Simulation

• Physics simulations and analysis: Geant 4, Garfield, ROOT (and extensions like LITRANI ), SIMION
• Thermal simulation : Flotherm, FloEFD
• Multiphysics simulation (acoustics, AC/DC, mecanics, thermal, CFD): COMSOL
• Mechanics CAD simulation (IN2P3 licence): CATIA, SAMCEF, Samcef Field, ANSYS
• Electronics CAD: Analog Workbench Cadence, PADS
• Signal processing and modelling: Matlab (toolboxes: signal processing, Control system, PDE), C++ , Labview

Construction

• Mechanical workshop
• Electronic workshop
• Workshop for the semi-conductors activities
• Clean rooms for detector assembly
• Wire chamber winding machine
• Large tridimensional control system Large tridimensional control system

Test and Measurement

• Two test rooms
• Light-tight room
• Climate test cabinet: temperature and humidity management
• Vacuum chambers
• Gas systems
• Nitrogen laser
• NIM and CAMAC electronics
• Fast pulse generators (including an arbitrary waveform generator)
• Specific tooling (wide band amplifiers, connector and cable test bench, etc.)
• Data acquisition systems:
  • VME (driven by LabView),
  • CAMAC (driven by CAMDA, under PC),
  • digitizing oscilloscopes (driven by LabView and Visual C++ applications)