Dresden 2013 – wissenschaftliches Programm
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HK: Fachverband Physik der Hadronen und Kerne
HK 52: Poster - Instrumentation I
HK 52.18: Poster
Mittwoch, 6. März 2013, 16:45–19:00, HSZ 2.OG
Field Programmable Gate Array Based Data Digitisation with Commercial Elements — Cahit Ugur1, Wolfgang Koenig1, •Jan Michel2, Grzegorz Korcyl3, Marek Palka3, and Michael Traxler1 — 1GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, Germany — 2Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany — 3Jagiellonian University, Poland
One of the most important aspects of particle identification experiments is the digitisation of time, amplitude and charge data from detectors. These conversions are done mostly with Application Specific ICs (ASICs). However, the recent developments in Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) technology allow us to use commercial electronic components for the required Front-End Electronics (FEE) and do the digitisation in the FPGA. It is possible to do Time-of-Flight (ToF), Time-over-Threshold (ToT), amplitude and charge measurements with converters implemented in FPGA. We call this principle COME & KISS: Use COMplex COMmercial Elements & Keep It Small and Simple.