Efficient data transmission from silicon wafer strip detectors

Conference · Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 1992 · IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (United States)

OSTI ID:7065728

Cooke, B J; Lackner, K S; Palounek, A P.T.; Sharp, D H; Winter, L; Ziock, H J ^[1]

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1. Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States)

In this paper, an architecture for on-wafer processing is proposed for central silicon-strip tracker systems as they are currently designed for high energy physics experiments at the SSC, and for heavy ion experiments at RHIC. The data compression achievable with on-wafer processing would make it possible to transmit all data generated to the outside of the detector system. A set of data which completely describes the state of the wafer for low occupancy events and which contains important statistical information for more complex events can be transmitted immediately. This information could be used in early trigger decisions. Additional data packages which complete the description of the state of the wafer vary in size and are sent through a second channel. By buffering this channel the required bandwidth can be kept far below the peak data rates which occur in rare but interesting events.

• OSTI ID: 7065728
• Report Number(s): CONF-911106-; CODEN: IETNAE
• Journal Information: IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (United States), Vol. 39:5; Conference: 1991 Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) nuclear science symposium and medical imaging conference, Santa Fe, NM (United States), 2-9 Nov 1991; ISSN 0018-9499
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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