Below are the first pictures of the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter Super Readout Driver (sROD) board being manufactured in South Africa. The board is being manufactured in Trax, Cape Town, and the pictures are indicative of significant progress. The project is financed by the NRF and the University of the Witwatersrand, together with support from the DST's SA-CERN programme. This board is the most complex manufactured so far in South Africa, with 16 layers and it is able to process a total throughput of 290 GB/s.
Board 2. Layer to layer registration was excellent, but unfortunately had inner layer shorts due to problems with direct imaging machine.
Board 3. This is one of the innerlayers of the current third attempt which is in production at the moment.
Board 1. This was the first attempt. The material shrinkage was measured to compensate for future builds.
Board 3. This is one of the innerlayers of the current third attempt which is in production at the moment.
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