Operational experience with a high speed video data acquisition system in Fermilab experiment E-687

Conference · Wed Oct 21 00:00:00 EDT 1987

OSTI ID:5676083

Baumbaugh, A E; Knickerbocker, K L; Baumbaugh, B; Ruchti, R

Operation of a high speed, triggerable, Video Data Acquisition System (VDAS) including a hardware data compactor and a 16 megabyte First-In-First-Out buffer memory (FIFO) will be discussed. Active target imaging techniques for High Energy Physics are described and preliminary experimental data is reported.. The hardware architecture for the imaging system and experiment will be discussed as well as other applications for the imaging system. Data rates for the compactor is over 30 megabytes/sec and the FIFO has been run at 100 megabytes/sec. The system can be operated at standard video rates or at any rate up to 30 million pixels/second. 7 refs., 3 figs.

• Research Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Notre Dame Univ., IN (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76CH03000
• OSTI ID: 5676083
• Report Number(s): FNAL/C-87/199; CONF-871006-31; ON: DE88004038; TRN: 88-008861
• Resource Relation: Conference: Nuclear science symposium, San Francisco, CA, USA, 21 Oct 1987; Other Information: Portions of this document are illegible in microfiche products
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEMS
OPERATION
BEAUTY PARTICLES
CHARM PARTICLES
IMAGE PROCESSING
MEMORY DEVICES
PARTICLE PRODUCTION
SPECTROMETERS
VIDEO TAPES
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
MAGNETIC STORAGE DEVICES
MAGNETIC TAPES
MEASURING INSTRUMENTS
PROCESSING
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