Fast pipelined trigger processors for the forward muon chambers of the H1 experiment on the Hadron Electron Ring Accelerator (HERA) at DESY, Hamburg

Author

Dowdell, J. ; French, M. ; Jaroslawski, S. ; Prydderch, M.

Author_Institution

Rutherford Appleton Lab., Chilton, UK

fYear

1991

fDate

2-9 Nov. 1991

Firstpage

898

Abstract

The road finder and final decision processors described perform the triggering function of the H1 forward muon chambers. Their function is to examine each event and determine the bunch collision of origin of the observed data. They must then notify the H1 trigger system if an event satisfies trigger conditions. Two custom application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) were designed in 1.5- mu m CMOS to implement the trigger algorithm. They feature fast pipelines and scan paths. It is believed that these ASICs can be used as fundamental building blocks in future particle physics experiments.<>

Keywords

application specific integrated circuits; ionisation chambers; nuclear electronics; trigger circuits; ASICs; H1 forward muon chambers; custom application specific integrated circuits; final decision processors; pipelined trigger processors; road finder; scan paths; triggering function; Algorithm design and analysis; Detectors; Electron accelerators; Event detection; Ionization; Laboratories; Mesons; Pipelines; Proton accelerators; Wire;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, 1991., Conference Record of the 1991 IEEE

Conference_Location

Santa Fe, NM, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0513-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.1991.258840

Filename

258840