A flexible data acquisition board for nuclear detectors

Author

Engels, R. ; Clemens, U. ; Rongen, H. ; Bussmann, N. ; Kemmerling, G. ; Reinartz, R. ; Schelten, J.

Author_Institution

Zentrallabor fur Elektron., Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, Germany

Volume

49

Issue

1

fYear

2002

fDate

2/1/2002 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

318

Lastpage

320

Abstract

For two-dimensional scintillation detectors based on position-sensitive photomultipliers, a new PCI or cPCI unit has been developed. It aims at fast signal and data processing by the usage of advanced technologies like digital signal processors and field-programmable gate arrays. The main features of this design are described in this paper. Digital test measurements were carried out showing that the chosen design complies with the requirements of nuclear pulse processing for such applications

Keywords

data acquisition; field programmable gate arrays; high energy physics instrumentation computing; solid scintillation detectors; FPGA; PCI; cPCI; data acquisition; digital signal processors; field-programmable gate arrays; nuclear pulse processing; position-sensitive photomultipliers; two-dimensional scintillation detectors; Data acquisition; Data processing; Digital signal processors; Field programmable gate arrays; Photomultipliers; Pulse measurements; Scintillation counters; Signal processing; Solid scintillation detectors; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TNS.2002.998661

Filename

998661