Operational experience with a high speed video data acquisition system in Fermilab Experiment E-687

Author

Baumbaugh, A.E. ; Knickerbocker, K.L. ; Baumbaugh, B. ; Ruchti, R.

Author_Institution

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

Volume

35

Issue

1

fYear

1988

Firstpage

253

Lastpage

256

Abstract

Operation of a high-speed, triggerable, video data acquisition system (VDAS) including a hardware data compactor and a 16-Mb first-in-first-out (FIFO) buffer memory is discussed. Active target imaging techniques for high-energy physics are described, and preliminary experimental data are reported. The hardware architecture for the imaging system and experiment is discussed as well as other applications for the imaging system. Data rates for the compactor are over 30 Mb/s, and the FIFO has been run at 100 Mb/s. The system can be operated at standard video rates or at any rate up to 30 million pixels/s.<>

Keywords

data acquisition; physics computing; video recording; 100 Mbit/s; 16 Mbit; 30 Mbit/s; Fermilab Experiment E-687; active target imaging techniques; first-in-first-out buffer memory; hardware architecture; hardware data compactor; high speed video data acquisition system; imaging system; video data acquisition system; Calorimetry; Cameras; Data acquisition; Glass; Hardware; Laboratories; Particle tracking; Solid scintillation detectors; Spectroscopy; Target tracking;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/23.12718

Filename

12718