Title :
The PeakSum system for the EPSI experiment
Author :
Galeotti, S. ; Morsani, F. ; Passuello, D. ; Rossi, F.
Author_Institution :
INFN, Pisa, Italy
Abstract :
A system based on custom VLSI chips and working as peak counter, computing also the total energy, the barycenter and the second-order momentum functions, is being designed at INFN in Pisa. This system is intended to be used in the EPSI experiment trigger, but it can find more general applications. It is a pipelined circuit, designed to work with a pipeline clock period of 25 ns, but its components can be easily redesigned to have no internal pipeline stages.<>
Keywords :
VLSI; counting circuits; nuclear electronics; trigger circuits; 25 ns; EPSI experiment; INFN; PeakSum system; Pisa; barycenter; custom VLSI chips; internal pipeline stages; peak counter; pipeline clock period; pipelined circuit; second-order momentum functions; total energy; trigger; Analog computers; Clocks; Counting circuits; Filters; Pipeline processing; Process design; Signal generators; Table lookup; Time measurement; Very large scale integration;
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
DOI :
10.1109/NSSMIC.1991.259022
