Design of the trigger system for the Auger fluorescence detector

Author

Gemmeke, H. ; Grindler, A. ; Keim, H. ; Kleifges, M. ; Kunka, N. ; Szadkowski, Z. ; Tcherniakhovski, D.

Author_Institution

Karlsruhe Univ., Germany

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

519

Lastpage

523

Abstract

A description of the trigger system for the 13 200 channels of the Auger fluorescence detector is presented. The concept for the front-end electronics, the first and second level trigger, the data flow and the data processing rests upon the system requirements. The design uses FPGAs to obtain a cost-effective and flexible solution whenever possible. The large scale integration of the modern FPGA allowed a massive parallel solution for recognition of tracks and suppression of background. The supervision task and readout is carried out by low cost PCs under LINUX operating system

Keywords

Cherenkov counters; cosmic ray apparatus; field programmable gate arrays; nuclear electronics; readout electronics; trigger circuits; Auger fluorescence detector; LINUX operating system; data flow; data processing; first level trigger; front-end electronics; large scale integration; low cost PCs; massive parallel solution; readout; second level trigger; supervision task; system requirements; trigger system; Cameras; Detectors; Energy resolution; Field programmable gate arrays; Fluorescence; Mirrors; Optical arrays; Pattern recognition; Sampling methods; Surface reconstruction;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Real Time Conference, 1999. Santa Fe 1999. 11th IEEE NPSS

Conference_Location

Sante Fe, NM

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5463-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RTCON.1999.842687

Filename

842687