Lecroy Research Systems - what happened?

[Mu Young Lee]

Is there a company out there that makes anything close to what LeCroy
Research Systems used to make? Anyone know of people who used design the
boards at LRS?

Mu Young Lee
Thousand Oaks, CA

[John Larkin]

On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 13:41:53 -0500, Mu Young Lee
wrote:

>Is there a company out there that makes anything close to what LeCroy
>Research Systems used to make? Anyone know of people who used design the
>boards at LRS?
>
>Mu Young Lee
>Thousand Oaks, CA


My company makes some VME and CAMAC modules that do some of the
high-speed timing stuff that LeCroy used to do. We don't do high
voltage or FastBus, though.

http://www.highlandtechnology.com/

Also check out Phillips Scientific, Jorger, and Jorway. See vita.org
if you're interested in VME.

What sort of stuff are you working on?

John

[Eric Inazaki]

On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 14:13:06 -0800, John Larkin
wrote:

>On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 13:41:53 -0500, Mu Young Lee
>wrote:
>
>>Is there a company out there that makes anything close to what LeCroy
>>Research Systems used to make? Anyone know of people who used design the
>>boards at LRS?
>>
>>Mu Young Lee
>>Thousand Oaks, CA
>
>
>My company makes some VME and CAMAC modules that do some of the
>high-speed timing stuff that LeCroy used to do. We don't do high
>voltage or FastBus, though.
>
>http://www.highlandtechnology.com/
>
>Also check out Phillips Scientific, Jorger, and Jorway. See vita.org
>if you're interested in VME.
>
>What sort of stuff are you working on?
>
>John

Also maybe KineticSys
tems (www.kscorp.com) Bi-Ra (www.bira.com),
BNC (www.berkeleynucleonics.com) and one of those EG&G
companies, I think it was Ortec.

Was kind of a bummer when LeCroy folded up their research instruments
division.

[Mu Young Lee]

On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, John Larkin wrote:
>
> http://www.highlandtechnology.com/
>
> What sort of stuff are you working on?

I was specifically interested in their fast programmable logic CAMAC
modules which employed Xilinx FPGAs. I am not tied to CAMAC however. If
there is a more modern off-the-shelf equivalent that would do as well.

Mu

[John Larkin]

On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 16:55:18 -0600, Eric Inazaki
wrote:


>Was kind of a bummer when LeCroy folded up their research instruments
>division.

Not for me!

John

[Tullio Grassi]

Mu Young Lee wrote:
> Is there a company out there that makes anything close to what LeCroy
> Research Systems used to make? Anyone know of people who used design the
> boards at LRS?
>
> Mu Young Lee
> Thousand Oaks, CA
>

I think this company is continuing some of the
old LeCroy products:

http://www.datadesigncorp.net/

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Tullio Grassi

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[Paul Smith]

A good reference for particle physics instrumentation is the adverts in the
Cern Courier; look at their web site:


http://www.cerncourier.com/buyers/


The LeCroy CAMAC module with the Xilinx had ECL I/O. If you don't need ECL,
there are a lot of PCI cards with various Xilinx parts on board.

Paul Smith
http://dustbunny.physics.indiana.edu/~paul



In article ,

Mu Young Lee wrote:

>On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, John Larkin wrote:
>>
>> http://www.highlandtechnology.com/
>>
>> What sort of stuff are you working on?
>
>I was specifically interested in their fast programmable logic CAMAC
>modules which employed Xilinx FPGAs. I am not tied to CAMAC however. If
>there is a more modern
off-the-shelf equivalent that would do as well.
>
>Mu
>

[Kolja Sulimma]

Mu Young Lee wrote in message news:...
> Is there a company out there that makes anything close to what LeCroy
> Research Systems used to make?

Especially in nuclear and atomic physics CAMAC and NIM are still
widely used. I guess that the manufacturers of CAMAC controllers like
National Semiconductors can give you a list of CAMAC module
manufacturers.

There ist for example CAEN in italy that build CAMAC and NIM modules
http://www.caen.it/nuclear/family.php?fam=cam

Roentdek in germany has a CAMAC controller and a couple of time to
digital converters:
http://www.roentdek.de/

What would you do with an FPGA in a CAMAC crate?

Kolja Sulimma

[Peter Bennett]

On 22 Jan 2003 03:57:55 -0800, kolja@bnl.gov (Kolja Sulimma) wrote:

>Mu Young Lee wrote in message news:...
>> Is there a company out there that makes anything close to what LeCroy
>> Research Systems used to make?
>
>Especially in nuclear and atomic physics CAMAC and NIM are still
>widely used. I guess that the manufacturers of CAMAC controllers like
>National Semiconductors can give you a list of CAMAC module
>manufacturers.

What is this part? I can't find any reference to CAMAC on National's
site.


>What would you do with an FPGA in a CAMAC crate?
>
>Kolja Sulimma

I've built three CAMAC modules here at TRIUMF using Altera FPGAs -
they replace a heluvalot
of logic chips.

One of the modules is a scanning 32 channel ADC, to replace a Lecroy
2232A - all the logic and channel registers that fills most of
Lecroy's board is in one Altera part.







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[Eric Inazaki]

In article <25c81abf.0301220357.41eb4cea@posting.google.com>, kolja@bnl.gov (Kolja Sulimma) wrote:

> Mu Young Lee wrote in message news:...
> > Is there a company out there that makes anything close to what LeCroy
> > Research Systems used to make?
>
> Especially in nuclear and atomic physics CAMAC and NIM are still
> widely used. I guess that the manufacturers of CAMAC controllers like
> National Semiconductors can give you a list of CAMAC module
> manufacturers.
>

Say what? Do you have a part number for this National Semi CAMAC controller?