Signal processing and data acquisition for hybrid pixel detectors

Author

Lynch, A.W. ; Tjoa, S. ; Berry, A.

Author_Institution

Monash Centre for Synchrotron Sci., Monash Univ., Melbourne, VIC, Australia

fYear

2009

fDate

14-16 Dec. 2009

Firstpage

195

Lastpage

199

Abstract

The hardware, firmware and software required to perform digital signal processing and data acquisition for a prototype pixelated cadmium zinc telluride (CZT) nuclear spectroscopic detector developed at the Monash Centre for Synchrotron Science has been implemented and assessed. The system uses a modular PCI-Card design incorporating a CycloneII^Â¿ FPGA with three daughter boards facilitating analogue or digital interfaces. This system can operate in oscilloscope and multi-channel-analyzer (MCA) modes with multiple configurations for triggering and energy calculation.

Keywords

X-ray detection; data acquisition; field programmable gate arrays; firmware; gamma-ray detection; nuclear electronics; oscilloscopes; particle detectors; peripheral interfaces; pulse height analysers; semiconductor counters; signal processing; CdZnTe; CycloneII FPGA; PCI-Card; data acquisition; digital signal processing; hybrid pixel detectors; multichannel-analyzer modes; nuclear spectroscopic detector; oscilloscope; Cadmium compounds; Data acquisition; Detectors; Digital signal processing; Hardware; Microprogramming; Signal processing; Software performance; Software prototyping; Zinc compounds; data acquisition; digital signal processing; field programmable gate arrays; instrumentation; nuclear electronics; readout electronics; x-ray detectors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Integrated Circuits, ISIC '09. Proceedings of the 2009 12th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Singapore

Print_ISBN

978-9-8108-2468-6

Type

conf

Filename

5403785