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A next generation real time trigger method to improve the enrichment of lepton events in the High Acceptance DiElectron Spectrometer (HADES) trigger system has been developed. In addition, a flexible Hardware Platform (Gigabit Ethernet-Multi-Node, GE-MN) was developed to implement and test the trigger method. The trigger method correlates the ring information of the HADES Ring Imaging Cherenkov (RICH) detector with the fired wires (drift cells) of the HADES Mini Drift Chamber (MDC) detector. It is demonstrated that this Level 3 trigger method can enhance the number of events which contain leptons by a factor of up to 50 at efficiencies above 80%. The performance of the correlation method in terms of the events analyzed per second has been studied with the GE-MN prototype in a lab test setup by streaming previously recorded experiment data to the module. This paper is a compilation from Kirschner [Level 3 trigger algorithm and Hardware Platform for the HADES experiment, Ph.D. Thesis, II. Physikalisches Institut der Justus-Liebig-Universitat Giesen, urn:nbn:de:hebis:26-opus-50784, October 2007 [1] ].

Based on the ATCA computation architecture and Compute Nodes (CN), investigation and implementation work has been being executed for HADES and PANDA trigger algorithms. We present our designs for HADES track reconstruction processing, Cherenkov ring recognition, Time-Of-Flight processing, electromagnetic shower recognition, and the PANDA straw tube tracking algorithm. They will appear as co-processors in the uniform system design to undertake the detector-specific computing. The algorithm principles will be explained and hardware designs are described in the paper. The current progress reveals the feasibility to implement these algorithms on FPGAs. Also experimental results demonstrate the performance speedup when compared to alternative software solutions, as well as the potential capability of high-speed parallel/pipelined processing in Data Acquisition and Trigger systems.