Control and data acquisition electronics for the CDF silicon vertex detector

Author

Turner, K.J. ; Nelson, C.A. ; Shaw, T.M. ; Wesson, T.R.

Author_Institution

Fermi Nat. Accel. Lab., Batavia, IL, USA

Volume

39

Issue

4

fYear

1992

fDate

8/1/1992 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

869

Lastpage

874

Abstract

A control and data acquisition system has been designed for the CDF silicon vertex detector (SVX) at Fermilab. The system controls the operations of the SVX Rev D integrated circuit (S.A. Kleinfeeder et al., 1988) that is used to instrument a 46000 microstrip silicon detector (W.C. Corithers et al., 1990). The system consists of a Fastbus sequencer, a crate controller, and digitizer modules. The authors describe the hardware design for the CDF SVX data acquisition electronics. The method chosen for integrating the SVX detector system into the CDF data acquisition network and synchronization with the Fermilab collider beam crossings are discussed. The sequencer, controller, and digitizer are described. Error detection and diagnostics are considered

Keywords

computerised control; controllers; data acquisition; error detection; nuclear electronics; physical instrumentation control; physics computing; semiconductor counters; silicon; CDF; Fastbus sequencer; Fermilab; SVX; Si; beam crossings; control; crate controller; data acquisition electronics; diagnostics; digitizer modules; error detection; hardware design; microstrip; synchronization; vertex detector; Control systems; Data acquisition; Detectors; Fastbus; Hardware; Instruments; Microstrip; Rabbits; Silicon; Synchronization;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/23.159723

Filename

159723