Nikitas LOUKAS - PhD Student - CERN USER Department of Physics University of Ioannina Panepistimioupoli GR-45110, Ioannina, GREECE Tel(Office-GR):  +30.2651.00.8541 Tel(Mobile-GR): +30.6972.25.9624 Office: 14/2-006 PH-UCM CERN, PObox: F22800 CH-1211, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND Tel(Mobile-CH): +41.76.77.014.38 Email: Nikitas.Loukas@cern.ch

CURRICULUM VITAE

nloukas_CV.pdf

Education

Today: Doctoral Student in Modern Electronic Technologies in University of Ioannina, Greece
MSc Modern Electronic Technologies (Physics Department) in University of Ioannina, Greece, 2010
BSc Electrical Engineer in Technological Educational Institute of Larissa, Greece, 2006

Current Work

Electronics upgrade for the DTTF Muon trigger system of the CMS experiment at CERN.

General Material

DTTF Overview An introduction to the muon trigger system at the barrel area of the CMS.
Working with VHDL Trigger Upgrades Workshop at September 13, 2012.
The DTTF inputs Needs for the input bandwidth of the new DTTF.


Poster of my work in Trigger School

ISOTDAQ2013 Poster Presentation of my work in collaboration with Athens and Vienna groups.


Erasmus at CERN

Report of mezzanine cards  Testing the channels of the cards designed for CERN.


Talk at CMS Greece Trigger Meetings

DTTF Firmware   Designing the new DTTF firmware current status and future plans. 19/Apr/2013
Firmware Kintex GTX  Firmware for kintex FPGA Loopback data using GTX transceivers. 26/May/2013


Presentations

DTTF-GR: Progress Report  CMS Upgrades at DESY. 04/Jun/2013
Barrel Muon Trigger Design and Status  L1 trigger upgrade EDR. 12/Nov/2013


2014 Talks

DTTF inputs Current progress Self - synchronous links at 10Gb/s. 28/Jan/2014
DTTF inputs Current progress Asynchronous links at 10Gb/s. 25/Feb/2014
CMS upgrade - DTTF inputs Asynchronous Links  Workshop on FPGAs for High-Energy Physics. 21/Mar/2014
DTTF inputs Current status  Working with the mp7 card. 21/May/2014
DTTF inputs form MC  Loading the first DTTF input pattenrs. 24/Jun/2014
Barrel TF current status  Testing the TwinMux (tm7) transceiver links - Collaboration with A.Triossi. 04/Sep/2014
Muon barrel TF  Testing the Muon Barrel algos. 16/Oct/2014
Muon barrel TF current status  Implementation of the 10Gb/s Asynchronous to the tm7 card. 28/Oct/2014
Muon_barrel_TF_meeting  Comparing the firmware algos with an emulator. 05/Nov/2014
Muon_barrel_TF_meeting  Debagging. 12/Nov/2014
TwinMux - Test Status  TwinMux to BMTF tests (AndreaTriossi talk). 13/Nov/2014

Webpage for VHDL

VHDL for beginners - TUTORIAL AND HINTS Restricted only for HEPLAB Users.




Links University of Ioannina Physics Department High Energy Physics LABoratory

More links Conseil Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleaire Compact Muon Solenoid TriDAS Project, Volume 1

 

Last updated: 16/Nov/2014