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At Nordson Test & Inspection we do offer on a frequent base summer internships. Here you can find more info about two recent projects. Will worked on the microcode (firmware) embedded in X-ray detectors FPGA. He wrote a code to implement a binning function for integration in the X-ray detector image processing pipeline. Will wrote the main code and a test pattern generator to successfully verify his work. Will’s work has provided Nordson’s X-ray Detector Team with a long-awaited implementation of an important image processing function which can be applied to existing and future products. Reuben’s [in picture at left] main project involved working with an existing interface kit, which allowed for validation and characterisation of Nordson-designed test chips, e.g. for testing different pixel designs and readout circuits. Reuben’s work has laid some of the groundwork for future development on the project, and will provide useful inputs to the design of the next generation of detectors. Reuben also worked with full size detectors used in production, developing a python script to detect pixels exhibiting Random Telegraph Noise (RTN), along with several tricks to help narrow the search (the dataset contained billions of readings so optimisation was key!). Overall, quite an impressive achievement to complete both tasks considering Reuben only spent eight weeks with the company.
At Nordson Test & Inspection we do offer on a frequent base summer internships. Today we will share more info about two recent projects. We would like to thank the students for their enthusiasm and motivation to join our internship program, and our teams in Colchester and Southampton, where these internship projects took place. George and Utsav (pictured with their creation) were tasked with the engineering problem of automating the precision alignment of CMOS sensor wafers for our Aspire-XL large format x-ray detector. Over a period of 8 weeks the two students worked in conjunction with the Colchester R&D team to successfully develop a fully featured pick and place robot for this application, complete with machine vision functionality, and a well-developed software GUI. George and Utsav displayed impressive teamwork, as well as great ingenuity and competence working on the project, ultimately delivering a system, which represents genuine value to the company in terms of production simplification and yield improvement. The system has now been transferred to our detector development team in Southampton, where its potential to improve tiled detector production efficiency will be evaluated further.
From one of our HR Business Partners in UK we where informed that she was impressed to see, during her visit in our R&D Colchester facility, that their Guitar Workshop was still a Thursday lunch-hour favourite with several devoted regulars. The workshop, established by Ian Sycamore (Sr. Software Engineer) last June, is a great opportunity for the team to take a break from work and bond by playing together. It is a great initiative, which is not only a lot of fun, but also provides real benefits for mental and physical well-being. Ian is a confident, self-taught blues/rock musician, and understands what it takes to get to grips with the instrument: “Playing the guitar isn’t easy straight away, and some people found it hard to make progress...”. However, the core of enthusiasts have kept going, and by now they had gained a basic understanding of musical theory and chords. As the months go by, they will progress towards more advanced concepts, such as scales and arpeggios. Ian is very proud of the group’s achievements so far, and it makes him very happy to know that he had been able to help them make real progress.
