The TIGRESS DAQ/Trigger system

Author

Martin, J.P. ; Mercier, C. ; Starinski, N. ; Pearson, C.J. ; Amaudruz, P.-A.

Author_Institution

Univ. de Montreal, Montreal

fYear

2007

fDate

April 29 2007-May 4 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

7

Abstract

The TIGRESS spectrometer is an array of escape suppressed, highly segmented, HPGe clover detectors, consisting of 896 channels, with around 1000 auxiliary detector channels available. The acquisition system is all digital, each detector signal is digitized and any filtering and subsequent processing is performed digitally. The system has been designed to integrate data flow, clock distribution, trigger, and acquisition control through the same serial links. A hierarchical trigger system is implemented, allowing various combinations of incoming trigger requests to be decided locally, or passed to any of the higher levels for final decision.

Keywords

data acquisition; germanium radiation detectors; high energy physics instrumentation computing; nuclear electronics; DAQ; HPGe clover detectors; TIGRESS spectrometer; TRIUMF ISAC Gamma-Ray Escape-Suppressed Spectrometer; clock distribution; data acquisition control; detector channels; integrate data flow; trigger system; Clocks; Control systems; Data acquisition; Detectors; Digital filters; Filtering; Sensor arrays; Signal detection; Signal processing; Spectroscopy; Data acquisition; detectors; signal processing; triggering;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Real-Time Conference, 2007 15th IEEE-NPSS

Conference_Location

Batavia, IL

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0866-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0867-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RTC.2007.4382848

Filename

4382848