The hard X-ray modulation telescope (HXMT) is devoted to performing an X-ray all-sky imaging survey
and carrying out pointed observations of the celestial bodies such as black-hole with high sensitivity. The 18 high energy X-ray detectors (HEDs) are the main payload on the HXMT.
Purpose
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This study aims to design a new type of multi-channel pulse wave analyzer for hard X-ray for the HEDs.
Methods
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Based on field programmable gate array (FPGA) technology
the pulse wave analyzer is structured with two FPGAs
32 K×16 dual port random-access memory (RAM) and one universal serial bus (USB) 2.0. It can deal with 8-channel input pulses in parallel to obtain pulse height
width and reaching time from each channel. All those data can be displayed in real time on computer.
Results
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It is confirmed experimentally that the pulse wave analyzer performance is comparable with the MCA8000D in energy spectral acquisition.
Conclusion
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This pulse wave analyzer has been successfully used in the HEDs performance testing
and can be used widely in the radiation detection.
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