penon

Roadmap

Nine milestones, published as they land.

The physics is fixed first. Silicon starts early, because fabrication takes months.

  1. M1

    Bench validated

    Resonance measured: frequency, quality factor, phase slope. Rig and method published.

  2. M2

    Prototypes

    Machined parts, revised board, ten assembled units.

  3. M3

    Calibration

    Reference bench, correction tables and a certificate per piece.

  4. M4

    Firmware v1

    Measurement, servo, motion compensation, quality flag.

  5. M5

    Measurement campaign

    Against a reference sensor; accuracy report published.

  6. M6

    RTL + FPGA

    The whole measurement chain validated on the real cavity.

  7. M7

    First silicon

    Shared-shuttle tapeout, analogue front-end on the die.

  8. M8

    Characterised measurement core

    Phase measurement characterised in silicon, ready for the instrument.

  9. M9

    First series

    Numbered pieces, calibrated one by one, delivered with their signed certificate.