R&D status of readout system for a large photo cathode HAPD

Author

Abe, T. ; Aihara, H. ; Iwasaki, M. ; Miyatake, H. ; Uchida, T. ; Tanaka, M. ; Kawai, Y. ; Kyushima, H. ; Suyama, M. ; Higashi, Y. ; Mizukami, T. ; Nakano, S.

Author_Institution

Tokyo Univ., Tokyo

Volume

3

fYear

2007

fDate

Oct. 26 2007-Nov. 3 2007

Firstpage

2373

Lastpage

2376

Abstract

We develop a readout system dedicated for a hybrid avalanche photo-detector (HAPD). We employ a waveform sampling and digital signal processing (DSP) technique for the system. We fabricate the first prototype of the system. The system is composed of an analog memory cell (AMC) as the waveform sampler and FINENET with field programmable gate arrays (FPGA) to give low power consumption, high resolution, flexible DSP environment and fast output data transfer. A 64-cell AMC is developed and attained a fast sampling speed of 1GHz with the low power consumption of ~72mW. FINENET works with online DSP functionality and achieved the data transfer rate to -1Gbps with SiTCP. We report the performance of the system with HAPD.

Keywords

Cherenkov counters; analogue storage; field programmable gate arrays; nuclear electronics; photocathodes; photodetectors; photomultipliers; readout electronics; signal processing; AMC; DSP technique; FPGA; HAPD; PMT; SiTCP; analog memory cell; digital signal processing; field programmable gate arrays; hybrid avalanche photo-detector; next generation water-Cherenkov detectors; readout system; Analog memory; Cathodes; Digital signal processing; Energy consumption; Field programmable analog arrays; Field programmable gate arrays; Prototypes; Sampling methods; Signal resolution; Signal sampling;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2007. NSS '07. IEEE

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

ISSN

1095-7863

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0922-8

Electronic_ISBN

1095-7863

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2007.4436621

Filename

4436621