A high-rate Fastbus silicon strip readout system

Author

Swoboda, Carl ; Barsotti, Ed ; Bowden, Mark ; Christian, David ; DeMaat, Robert ; Fachin, Miguel ; Gonzalez, Hector ; Hance, Rick ; Haldeman, Merle ; Hoff, Jim ; Larwill, Mark ; Rotolo, Carmen ; Trendler, Robert ; Trepstow, K. ; Urish, John ; Walsh, Don ;

Author_Institution

Fermi Nat. Accel. Lab., Batavia, IL, USA

Volume

37

Issue

2

fYear

1990

fDate

4/1/1990 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

342

Lastpage

346

Abstract

A synchronous silicon strip readout system capable of zero dead-time readout at average trigger rates in excess of 1 MHz is described. The system is implemented in Fastbus, uses pipelining techniques, and includes point-to-point fiberoptic data links to transmit detector digital data. Semicustom ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit) chips are used to amplify, discriminate, and logically combine track data before encoding. The overall system, each major Fastbus module, and the functional aspects of the ASIC chips are described

Keywords

data acquisition; fibre optics; nuclear electronics; physics computing; semiconductor counters; trigger circuits; ASIC chips; average trigger rates; dead-time readout; detector digital data; encoding; high-rate Fastbus Si strip readout system; pipelining; point-to-point fiberoptic data links; semicustom application-specific integrated circuit; track data; Application specific integrated circuits; Clocks; Delay; Detectors; Fastbus; Optical amplifiers; Radio frequency; Signal detection; Silicon; Strips;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/23.106642

Filename

106642