The Shower Maximum Front-End Electronics for the CDF Upgrade

Author

Byon-Wagner, A. ; Byrum, K. ; Dawson, J.W. ; Drake, G. ; Drennan, C. ; Foster, G.W. ; Haberichter, W.N. ; Hoff, J. ; Kuhlmann, S. ; Lindgren, M.A. ; Nodulman, L.J. ; Proudfoot, J. ; Schlereth, J.L. ; Wu, J.Y.

Author_Institution

Fermi Nat. Accel. Lab., USA

Volume

49

Issue

5

fYear

2002

fDate

10/1/2002 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

2567

Lastpage

2573

Abstract

The CDF Shower Maximum Electronics is part of the upgraded data acquisition system for the CDF experiment at Fermilab. The system services five detector subsystems of the calorimeter, and accommodates the different properties and data processing requirements imposed by each of them. The electronics is built around a custom integrated circuit called the SMQIE, which produces floating-point data with no dead-time using a 7.6-MHz clock. The components of the system are described, along with the principles of operation for performing data acquisition, calibration, and diagnostics.

Keywords

application specific integrated circuits; calorimeters; data acquisition; high energy physics instrumentation computing; nuclear electronics; particle calorimetry; CDF Upgrade; SMQIE; Shower Maximum Electronics; Shower Maximum Front-End Electronics; calibration; custom integrated circuit; data acquisition; dead-time; BiCMOS integrated circuits; Calibration; Data acquisition; Detectors; Electromagnetic measurements; Electrons; Photoelectricity; Plugs; Position measurement; Programmable logic arrays;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TNS.2002.803924

Filename

1046925