The "Godfather" of the GPFC is Matthias Clausen (DESY, the MKS-2 group leader). He inspired the project and much contributed to the GPFC's functionality definition. Some key architectural solutions, including the IndustryPack compatible I/O interface, were also originated by him. Besides, he provided a real home to the project at DESY, taking many organizational and coordination duties.
The co-coordinator from the IHEP side is Alexander Sytin (IHEP, the OEA division leader). He contributed to organizational aspects and attaching the IHEP human and technical resources to the project. He does much for IHEP electronic workshop to be able to produce the GPFC in series.
The project's system architect is Serguei Zelepoukine (IHEP, OEA division). He developed the entire GPFC architecture and put much efforts to select IC components for its implementation. He sketched the GPFC's interrupt controller introducing a Xilinx chip, which further on received many other system functions. He also was busy with all software aspects, including the porting VxWorks BSP (Board Support Package) and I/O drivers. Besides, he was carrying the project planning and daily management duties and wrote GPFC docs, including these Web pages.
The GPFC's hardware designer is Piotr Vetrov (IHEP, OEA division). He spent hundreds hours at the MENTOR's workplace, doing what initially seemed impossible. But he did it. Several versions had passed through the complete design chain before the first prototype came to reality. And this prototype has been successfully put into operation. Besides the board level design, Piotr developed CPLD/FPGA firmware - a challenging task in itself. Also, he made a second, enchanced, version of the GPFC board/firmware design and designed a dedicated meta-carrier board for the SEDAC crate controller application.
The MENTOR CAD system administrator, Walter Ebenritter (DESY, FEA group), greatly contributed with the CAD technical expertise and configuring a specific environment for the GPFC design. He also provided updating the MENTOR library with all needed component descriptions and generating design output files accordingly to industry requirements.
Bernd Schoeneburg (DESY, MKS-2 group) much contributed with the general technical expertise and specific CAN and SEDAC knowledge. He also much helped in solving many everyday problems, like ordering components and establishing the connection with the DESY electronic workshop (to name just a few).
Alexander Matioushine (IHEP, OEA division) designed a SEDAC_IP module to interface the GPFC with a SEDAC crate. This is a key part for the first embedded GPFC application, an intelligent SEDAC crate controller. With this controller SEDAC system will get local computing resources and CAN/Profibus communications.
Serguei Makonine (IHEP, OEA division) and Andrei Machnachev (IHEP, OEA division) much contributed to the SEDAC_IP module development.