Fully digital FPGA-based Front-End Electronics for the GALILEO array

Author

Barrientos, D. ; Bellato, M. ; Bazzacco, D. ; Bortolato, D. ; Cocconi, P. ; Gadea, A. ; Gonzalez, V. ; Gulmini, M. ; Isocrate, R. ; Mengoni, D. ; Pullia, A. ; Recchia, F. ; Rosso, D. ; Sanchis, E. ; Toniolo, N. ; Ur, C.A. ; Valiente-Dobon, J.J.

Author_Institution

Lab. Naz. di Legnaro, Ist. Naz. di Fis. Nucleare, Padua, Italy

fYear

2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

In this work we present the fully digital Front End Electronics (FEE) read out system developed for the GALILEO array. The system, developed in collaboration with the Advanced Gamma Tracking Array (AGATA) collaboration, is composed of three main blocks: preamplifiers, digitizers and preprocessing electronics. The slow control system contains a custom Linux driver, a dynamic library and a server implementing network services. The digital processing of the data from the GALILEO germanium detectors has demonstrated the capability to achieve an energy resolution of 1.53% at an energy of 1.33 MeV.

Keywords

Linux; analogue-digital conversion; field programmable gate arrays; gamma-ray detection; germanium radiation detectors; high energy physics instrumentation computing; preamplifiers; readout electronics; 4pi gamma-ray spectrometer; GALILEO array; GALILEO germanium detectors; Linux driver; advanced gamma tracking array collaboration; digital FPGA-based front-end electronics; digital data processing; digital front end electronics read out system; digitizers; dynamic library; electron volt energy 1.33 MeV; energy resolution; preamplifiers; preprocessing electronics; server implementing network services; Arrays; Control systems; Detectors; Physics; Registers; Servers; Synchronization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Real Time Conference (RT), 2014 19th IEEE-NPSS

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3658-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RTC.2014.7097491

Filename

7097491