Are you in need of high speed signal processing, fast feedback, unmatchable long term stability and accuracy in your processes? Do you need immediate feedback responses or extremely clear RF signal processing and phase detecting? We provide rocket science electronics for industrial and scientific use. Instrumentation Technologies Inc. is a global leader in particle accelerator diagnostic instrumentation. This presentation shows core competences and capabilities of the company, so that you see, how we can help you solve your problem with our high performance electronics. We can create solutions for applications in diverse fields, such as radar and sonar systems, electronic beam industry, hadron therapy, neutron therapy, radioisotope production, ION implantation, security and cargo inspections, spectroscopy, and more.

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I-Tech in Figures
• > 5 mio € revenue
• 35 Employees
• AAA+ Rating
• Est. 1998
• Global Leader in Particle Accelerator Instrumentation

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Where we play
• Design and development of High Performance Electronics and Systems
• Used in Particle Accelerators where extremely
• Accurate, precise and stable measurements need to be taken
• High frequency RF signals are treated (MHz-GHz)
• Fast digitization is required (up to 1 GSa/s, 8 to 20 bit)
• Intensive FPGA Real-Time data processing is necessary (~ns latency)
• Fast feedback generation is needed to control the machine (~µs)
• High synchronization level between distributed systems is required (ns to fs)
• High level of reliability required

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Our Approach
• Agile
• Collaborative
• Deep level of customization
• State-of-the-art (rocket) science
• Robust industrialization
Our Solutions
•Unprecedented performance
•Operate reliably at the limits of
technology
•All-in-one system solutions
•Superior value to the customer

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Hardware
FPGA
Manufacturing
We Master
Software

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• Real time data processing with
low latency and high throughput
• Effective algorithm development
• Analogue electronic circuits –
up to 12 GHz RF signal processing
• Shielding and temperature
stabilization solutions
• 20 layer PCBs
• Optical fiber based communication,
RF to optical and reversed
transformation
• Device industrialization
• Rapid prototyping and small
series production
• Cost-optimized quality assured
large series production
• System integration
• Applications and interface to other
systems (e.g. control systems)
• Linux OS kernel and firmware
customizations
• Standard and proprietary
protocols implementation
Hardware
FPGA
Manufacturing Software

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Applications

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Common System Overview

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Beam Position Monitor
A beam position monitor measures the position
of the particles in the accelerator pipe with nm
resolution and <µs time resolution, enabling
the real-time control of the particle trajectory.
The Challenges:
• Process extra-short (ps) electrical pulses
• Wide input signal dynamic range (70dB)
• Phase calibration of input signals down to 0.04°
at 500 MHz frequency
• Effective input channel calibration through
compensation of temperature drifts and
component differences

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Digital LLRF
Digital LLRF stabilizes amplitude and phase of
the electromagnetic fields in the cavities of
particle accelerators, insuring that the particles
are accelerated and not slowed down.
The Challenges:
• Extreme measurement accuracy:
Amplitude error < 0.01% RMS
Phase error < 0.01° RMS
• High local temperature stability with local control
down to 0.01°C
• Fast feedback system response (<300ns)

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Timing Distribution and Stabilization System
The system distributes an RF signal from a
source to numerous end-stations around the
machine, enabling a global synchronization
down to the femto-second accuracy.
The Challenges:
• Stabilization of GHz RF signal with extremely low
timing jitter (< 7fs) over 1.5km distance
• Tightly locked distributed signals with peak-to-
peak drift < 30fs over long periods (3 days)
• Short and completely automated warm-up period
(1hr), no operator involved

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Instrument Development Platform
Instruments developed from this platform put
together our domain knowledge in a simple
design, offering great price / performance ratio.
The Challenges:
• Design-time modularity: easily exchange system
components at design phase.
• Short development time and prototyping phase:
from the idea to the solution in < 6 months.
• Maintenance free (no moving parts → passive
cooling → PoE supply)

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The Challenges:
• Consumer market, different distribution channels
• Form-factor: credit-card size
• Price to access the market: < 400 EUR
• Level of performance must match or exceed table top
instrumentation
• Open Source community
Open-source general purpose laboratory
instrument. “Bring your whole lab with you”.

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Easy Access and Control

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Reliability and Performance
• Thousands of units deployed and working reliably for 15+ years
• Tens of scientific publications use I-Tech instruments as the reference benchmark
• „On our Booster beam, we collected much data and
features, that we could not measure or even detect before.“
• ∼ Kees Scheidt, Diagnostics Head (ESRF, Grenoble)
• „Real-machine commisioning of booster
synchrotron to storage ring is only about
three weeks. The success is impossible
without help of I-Tech.“
• ∼ Kuotung Hsu (NSRRC Taiwan)
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