Design and Test of the ALICE SDD Data Concentrator Card CARLOSrx

Author

Antinori, S. ; Costa, F. ; Falchieri, D. ; Gabrielli, A. ; Gandolfi, E. ; Masetti, M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys., National Inst. of Nucl. Phys., Bologna

Volume

1

fYear

2006

fDate

Oct. 29 2006-Nov. 1 2006

Firstpage

316

Lastpage

320

Abstract

The data concentrator card CARLOSrx is part of the Silicon Drift Detector (SDD) readout chain for the ALICE experiment to be held at CERN. CARLOSrx consists of two 9U times 400 mm VME64 printed circuit boards with the main purpose of receiving data coming from 12 SDDs and sending them towards the ALICE data acquisition system (DAQ) after data processing, buffering and formatting. The paper presents the design of the CARLOSrx boards together with the results of the tests performed with the SDD readout chain.

Keywords

nuclear electronics; printed circuit design; printed circuit testing; printed circuits; readout electronics; silicon radiation detectors; ALICE SDD data concentrator card; ALICE data acquisition system; ALICE experiment; CARLOSrx; CERN; VME64 printed circuit board; data buffering; data formatting; data processing; silicon drift detector; Clocks; Data acquisition; Data processing; Field programmable gate arrays; Optical buffering; Optical fibers; Physics; Telephony; Testing; Transceivers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2006. IEEE

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

ISSN

1095-7863

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0560-2

Electronic_ISBN

1095-7863

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2006.356165

Filename

4179004