Event Pre Processor for the CZT Detector on MIRAX

Journal Article · Fri Jun 09 04:00:00 EDT 2006 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2216615· OSTI ID:20798730

Kendziorra, Eckhard; Schanz, Thomas; Distratis, Giuseppe ^[1]; Suchy, Slawomir ^[2]

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1. Institut fuer Astronomie und Astrophysik der Universitaet Tuebingen, Abteilung Astronomie, Sand 1, 72076 Tuebingen (Germany)
2. Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0424 (United States)

We describe the Event Pre Processor (EPP) for the Hard X-ray Imager (HXI) on MIRAX. The EPP provides on board data reduction and event filtering for the HXI Cadmium Zinc Telluride strip detector. Emphasis is placed upon the EPP requirements, its implementation as VHDL design in a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), and the description of a test environment for both the VHDL code and the FPGA hardware.

• OSTI ID: 20798730
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Journal Name: AIP Conference Proceedings Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 840; ISSN APCPCS; ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
CADMIUM TELLURIDES
COSMIC RAY DETECTION
COSMIC X-RAY SOURCES
DESIGN
HARD X RADIATION
IMPLEMENTATION
SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES
V CODES
ZINC TELLURIDES