Control and data acquisition electronics for the CDF Silicon Vertex Detector

Author

Turner, K.J. ; Nelson, C.A. ; Shaw, T.M. ; Wesson, T.R.

Author_Institution

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

fYear

1991

fDate

2-9 Nov. 1991

Firstpage

888

Abstract

A control and data acquisition system has been designed for the CDF Silicon Vertex Detector (SVX) at Fermilab. The system controls the operation of the SVX Rev D integrated circuit (SVX IC) that is used to instrument a 46000 microstrip silicon detector. The Fastbus Sequencer, a programmable timing generator for controlling the SVX Rev D integrated circuit is described along with the controller and digitizer modules that reside in SVX Rabbit crates. A method for providing timing patterns to the wedge that allows pulsewidth control to within 10 ns over a period of 1 mu s is presented. Diagnostics abilities that provide mechanisms for understanding data and timing integrity are discussed.<>

Keywords

computerised instrumentation; data acquisition; nuclear electronics; physics computing; semiconductor counters; silicon; CDF; Fastbus Sequencer; SVX Rabbit crates; SVX Rev D integrated circuit; Si; digitizer modules; programmable timing generator; timing integrity; Control systems; Data acquisition; Detectors; Fastbus; Instruments; Microstrip; Rabbits; Silicon; Space vector pulse width modulation; Timing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, 1991., Conference Record of the 1991 IEEE

Conference_Location

Santa Fe, NM, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0513-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.1991.258842

Filename

258842