The forthcoming SOXS (Son Of X-Shooter) will be a new spectroscopic facility for the ESO New Technology Telescope in La Silla, focused on transient events and able to cover both the UV-VIS and NIR bands. The instrument passed the Final Design Review in 2018 and is currently in manufacturing and integration phase. This paper is focused on the assembly and testing of the instrument control electronics, which will manage all the motorized functions, alarms, sensors, and electric interlocks. The electronics is hosted in two main control cabinets, divided in several subracks that are assembled to ensure easy accessibility and transportability, to simplify test, integration and maintenance. Both racks are equipped with independent power supply distribution and have their own integrated cooling systems. This paper shows the assembly strategy, reports on the development status and describes the tests performed to verify the system before the integration into the whole instrument.
@article{arxiv.2012.12722,
title = {Progress and tests on the Instrument Control Electronics for SOXS},
author = {M. Colapietro and G. Capasso and S. D'Orsi and P. Schipani and L. Marty and S. Savarese and I. Coretti and S. Campana and R. Claudi and M. Aliverti and A. Baruffolo and S. Ben-Ami and F. Biondi and R. Cosentino and F. D'Alessio and P. D'Avanzo and O. Hershko and H. Kuncarayakti and M. Landoni and M. Munari and G. Pignata and A. Rubin and S. Scuderi and F. Vitali and D. Young and J. Achrén and J. A. Araiza-Duran and I. Arcavi and A. Brucalassi and R. Bruch and E. Cappellaro and M. Della Valle and M. De Pascale and R. Di Benedetto and A. Gal-Yam and M. Genoni and M. Hernandez and J. Kotilainen and G. Li Causi and S. Mattila and K. Radhakrishnan and M. Rappaport and D. Ricci and M. Riva and B. Salasnich and S. Smartt and R. Zanmar Sanchez and M. Stritzinger and H. Ventura},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.12722},
year = {2020}
}