1. The TRB for HADES and FAIR experiments at GSI
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Krzemien, W., Frohlich, I., Kajetanowicz, M., Korcyl, K., Michel, J., Palka, M., Salabura, P., Schrader, C., Skott, P., Strobele, H., Stroth, J., Tarantola, A., Traxler, M., and Trebacz, R.
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Nuclear Experiment - Abstract
The TRB hardware module is a multi-purpose Trigger and Readout Board with on-board DAQ functionality developed for the upgrade of the HADES experiment. It contains a single computer chip (Etrax) running Linux as a well as a 100 Mbit/s Ethernet interface. It has been orginally designed to work as a 128-channel Time to Digital Converter based on the HPTDC chip from CERN. The new version contains a 2 Gbit/s optical link and an interface connector (15 Gbit/s) in order to realize an add-on card concept which makes the hardware very flexible. Moreover, an FPGA chip (Xilinx, Virtex 4 LX 40) and a TigerSharc DSP provide new computing resources which can be used to run on-line analysis algorithms. The TRB is proposed as a prototype for new modules for the planned detector systems PANDA and CBM at the future FAIR facility at GSI-Darmstadt., Comment: Presented at 10th ICATPP Conference on Astroparticle, Particle and Space Physics, Detectors and Medical Physics Applications, Villa Olmo, Como, 8-12 October 2007 5 pages, 2 figures
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- 2008