Prototype VME acquisition card for the ZEUS calorimeter

Author

Dawson, John W. ; Berg, J. Scott ; Schlereth, J.L. ; Stanek, Robert

Author_Institution

High Energy Phys. Div., Argonne Nat. Lab., IL, USA

Volume

36

Issue

1

fYear

1989

fDate

2/1/1989 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

638

Lastpage

642

Abstract

The authors discuss the design of a prototype data acquisition (DAQ) card for the ZEUS calorimeter. The card accepts two multiplexed analog data streams at a 1 MHZ rate, and digitizes and stores the data for subsequent transfer through VME to a host computer. The data is buffered by a high-speed asynchronous FIFO following the A/D converters, and written into data memory on the card, either directly or after processing by an on-board digital signal processor (DSP). The card is constructed on a ten layer printed circuit, with almost all components being surface-mount devices. All logic is implemented in PLD´s

Keywords

analogue-digital conversion; data acquisition; nuclear electronics; physics computing; scintillation counters; A/D converters; VME acquisition card; ZEUS calorimeter; high-speed asynchronous FIFO; multiplexed analog data streams; on-board digital signal processor; surface-mount devices; ten layer printed circuit; Clocks; Data acquisition; Digital signal processing; Hardware; Logic; Protocols; Prototypes; Random access memory; Read-write memory; Registers;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/23.34516

Filename

34516