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I recall watching Marco Reps' video[1] where he built the (relatively) high-speed high-precision ADC they designed and published as an open hardware project[2], to be used to accurately monitor current in the magnets.

A small but important piece of a giant machine puzzle.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D28uSzCs7-k

[2]: https://ohwr.org/project/opt-adc-10k-32b-1cha/wikis/home

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I love how nearly everything hardware at CERN is published under the open hardware license. I think even the pixel chip designs maybe, but I could be wrong.

Timepix is not public but licensed to commercial vendors as far as I know.

But anyway I appreciate they make such (a readout chip for) detectors available so we could benefit in one of our previous projects (not about particle physics).

The Timepix is a TSMC chip, I do not see how you could make that opensource without breaking NDAs with the fab. Something like the Skywater PDK would be ideal for open science (provided it could perform as well under radiations of course).

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