Digital pulse processing techniques for high resolution amplitude measurement of radiation detector

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Digital pulse processing techniques for high resolution amplitude measurement of radiation detector

Author : Amit Roy

Year : 2012

Publisher : Joint Accelerator Conferences Website (JACoW)

Source Title : PCaPAC 2012 - 9th International Workshop on Personal Computers and Particle Accelerator Controls

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Abstract

The digital pulse processing techniques for high resolution amplitude measurement of radiation detector pulse is an effective replacement of expensive and bulky analog processing as the digital domain offers higher channel density and at the same time it is cheaper. We have demonstrated a prototype digital setup with highspeed sampling ADC with sampling frequency of 80-125 MHz followed by series of IIR filters for pulse shaping in a trigger-less acquisition mode. The IIR filters, peak detection algorithm and the data write-out logic was written on VHDL and implemented on FPGA. We used CAMAC as the read out platform. In conjunction with the full hardware implementation we also used a mixedplatform with VME digitizer card with raw-sample read out using C code. The rationale behind this mixed platform is to test out various filter algorithms quickly on C and also to benchmark the performance of the chip level ADCs against the standard commercial digitizer in terms of noise or resolution. The paper describes implementation of both the methods with performance obtained in both the methods. © 2012 by the respective authors.