Dynamically reconfigurable architectures for on-line digital pulse analysis

Author

Odoardo, Andrea Di ; Riboldi, Stefano ; Geraci, Angelo ; Ripamonti, Giancarlo

Author_Institution

Dipt. di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

Volume

1

fYear

2001

fDate

6/23/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

5

Lastpage

9

Abstract

We discuss planning, realization and engineering of a system for on-line digital pulse analysis, based on reconfigurable devices. Performances and computational densities well above those of systems based on microprocessors are obtained. Data-path structures and algorithms suited to obtain full advantage of spatial computing in programmable devices, through efficient implementation and high degree of parallelism are presented. The present system is going to be introduced in the mass market of general-purpose spectrometers

Keywords

counting circuits; digital signal processing chips; field programmable gate arrays; high energy physics instrumentation computing; parallel architectures; particle spectrometers; position sensitive particle detectors; pulse circuits; reconfigurable architectures; digital pulse processing systems; dynamically reconfigurable architectures; general-purpose spectrometers; microprocessors; on-line digital pulse analysis; parallelism; path structures; programmable devices; spatial computing; Computer architecture; Energy measurement; Field programmable gate arrays; Finite impulse response filter; Fluctuations; IIR filters; Preamplifiers; Pulse measurements; Reconfigurable architectures; Signal analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2001 IEEE

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

ISSN

1082-3654

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7324-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2001.1008398

Filename

1008398