TY - JOUR
TI - Design and implementation of a nanosecond time-stamping readout system-on-chip for photo-detectors
AU - Anvar, S.
AU - Château, F.
AU - Le Provost, H.
AU - Louis, F.
AU - Manolopoulos, K.
AU - Moudden, Y.
AU - Vallage, B.
AU - Zonca, E.
JO - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
PY - 2014
VL - 735
TODO - null
SP - 587-595
PB - 
SN - null
TODO - 10.1016/j.nima.2013.10.019
TODO - Computing;  Data acquisition circuit;  Data acquisition softwares;  Design and implementations;  Digital electronic circuits;  Distributed applications;  Large detector-systems performance;  Middleware frameworks, Application programs;  Application specific integrated circuits;  Data acquisition;  Photodetectors;  Software architecture;  Stamping, Readout systems
TODO - A readout system suitable for a large number of synchronized photo-detection units has been designed. Each unit embeds a specifically designed fully integrated communicating system based on Xilinx FPGA SoC technology. It runs the VxWorks real-time OS and a custom data acquisition software designed within the Ice middleware framework, resulting in a highly flexible, controllable and scalable distributed application. Clock distribution and delay calibration over customized fixed latency gigabit Ethernet links enable synchronous time-stamping of events with nanosecond precision. The implementation of this readout system on several data-collecting units as well as its performances are described. © 2013 Published by Elsevier B.V.
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