Yaxi ZHANG, Ping CAO, Xiru HUANG, et al. A distributed data readout method for quality control of CBM-TOF super module detector[J]. Nuclear techniques, 2017, 40(6): 060404
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Yaxi ZHANG, Ping CAO, Xiru HUANG, et al. A distributed data readout method for quality control of CBM-TOF super module detector[J]. Nuclear techniques, 2017, 40(6): 060404 DOI: 10.11889/j.0253-3219.2017.hjs.40.060404.
A distributed data readout method for quality control of CBM-TOF super module detector
The time-of-flight (TOF) detector is a key component in the compressed baryonic matter (CBM) experiment at the facility for antiproton and ion research (FAIR). It utilizes super module detectors to achieve high-denseness
high-precision particle flight time measurement. Each super module supports up to 320 channels of high-precision time measurement capabilities
and the data transfer will reach up to 6-Gbit·s
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peak rate.
Purpose
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This study aims at the quality control of data readout system for CBM-TOF super module.
Methods
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First of all
the background and readout methods in similar TOF detectors were introduced. Then a distributed data readout method and related software framework was proposed to meet the quality control readout requirements by using the system on chip (SOC) techniques. Finally
a prototype software was implemented under Linux operating system to test and verify the feasibility of the distributed data readout method.
Results
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The read-out board (ROB) prototype module for a single data transmission path achieved approximate 467-Mbit·s
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data transfer rate in the case of full-link. Both data acquisition and status monitoring of each component of CBM-TOF were implemented properly in the software.
Conclusion
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The distributed data readout method and the related prototype software implementation can be used for quality control of CBM-TOF super module readout.
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