A POWERPC BASED READOUT SYSTEM FOR THE SILICON TRACKERS OF THE H1-EXPERIMENT

Authors
HAYNES WJ KAUSCH M KOSTKA P NOYES G PITZL D
Citation
Wj. Haynes et al., A POWERPC BASED READOUT SYSTEM FOR THE SILICON TRACKERS OF THE H1-EXPERIMENT, Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, 409(1-3), 1998, pp. 651-653
Citations number
3
Categorie Soggetti
Nuclear Sciences & Tecnology","Physics, Particles & Fields","Instument & Instrumentation",Spectroscopy
Journal title
Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment → ACNP
ISSN journal
01689002
Volume
409
Issue
1-3
Year of publication
1998
Pages
651 - 653
Database
ISI
SICI code
0168-9002(1998)409:1-3<651:APBRSF>2.0.ZU;2-P
Abstract
The readout system of the H1 Central and Backward Silicon Tracker dete ctors is processing the data of about 120 000 analog readout channels. The strip data are digitized and processed by VMEbus Readout Processo r Modules equipped with a local PCI bus and a 96 MHz PowerPC 604 proce ssor. The processor performs a cluster search and reduces the raw data size by an average factor of 40. It also updates the pedestals and no ise variances periodically. Events can be processed at up to 100 Hz, w ell matching the second level trigger rates. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.