A Generic High Bandwidth Data Acquisition Card for Physics Experiments

Chen, Kai; Chen, Hucheng; Huang, Jin; Lanni, Francesco; Tang, Shaochun; Wu, Weihao

doi:10.1109/tim.2019.2947972

Title: A Generic High Bandwidth Data Acquisition Card for Physics Experiments

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In high energy physics and nuclear physics experiments particularly the ones based on particle accelerator, the data rate from the detector is usually in the order of Terabytes per second. This high throughput data from detector front-end electronics need to be transmitted to the back-end computing farm for high level event selection and building. A Data Acquisition (DAQ) system with features of high-density, scalable, easily upgradeable is crucial to simplify the readout architecture of whole experiment. This paper will introduce the design of a generic high bandwidth PCIe card which can be used as the important input output card in a scalable DAQ system. It can factorize front-end electronics from data handling, and reduce amount of custom hardware in favor of scalable detectorindependent commercial hardware and software. Besides the 48 channels of bidirectional high speed fiber optical links with frontends, it also supports to synchronize with the experiment timing system, and to fanout the clock and trigger information with a fixed latency to the front-end electronics.

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Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)

Publication Date:: Sun Oct 18 00:00:00 EDT 2020

Research Org.:: Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)

OSTI Identifier:: 1643992

Report Number(s):: BNL-216199-2020-JAAM
Journal ID: ISSN 0018-9456; TRN: US2201983

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0012704

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 69; Journal Issue: 7; Journal ID: ISSN 0018-9456

Publisher:: IEEE

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; Data acquisition; High bandwidth readout; PCIe; Particle physics experiment; Accelerator experiment

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                    Chen, Kai, Chen, Hucheng, Huang, Jin, Lanni, Francesco, Tang, Shaochun, and Wu, Weihao. A Generic High Bandwidth Data Acquisition Card for Physics Experiments.  United States: N. p., 2020. 
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                    Chen, Kai, Chen, Hucheng, Huang, Jin, Lanni, Francesco, Tang, Shaochun, & Wu, Weihao. A Generic High Bandwidth Data Acquisition Card for Physics Experiments.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1109/tim.2019.2947972

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                    Chen, Kai, Chen, Hucheng, Huang, Jin, Lanni, Francesco, Tang, Shaochun, and Wu, Weihao. Sun .  
"A Generic High Bandwidth Data Acquisition Card for Physics Experiments".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1109/tim.2019.2947972.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1643992.

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@article{osti_1643992,

  title        = {A Generic High Bandwidth Data Acquisition Card for Physics Experiments},

  author       = {Chen, Kai and Chen, Hucheng and Huang, Jin and Lanni, Francesco and Tang, Shaochun and Wu, Weihao},

  abstractNote = {In high energy physics and nuclear physics experiments particularly the ones based on particle accelerator, the data rate from the detector is usually in the order of Terabytes per second. This high throughput data from detector front-end electronics need to be transmitted to the back-end computing farm for high level event selection and building. A Data Acquisition (DAQ) system with features of high-density, scalable, easily upgradeable is crucial to simplify the readout architecture of whole experiment. This paper will introduce the design of a generic high bandwidth PCIe card which can be used as the important input output card in a scalable DAQ system. It can factorize front-end electronics from data handling, and reduce amount of custom hardware in favor of scalable detectorindependent commercial hardware and software. Besides the 48 channels of bidirectional high speed fiber optical links with frontends, it also supports to synchronize with the experiment timing system, and to fanout the clock and trigger information with a fixed latency to the front-end electronics.},

  doi          = {10.1109/tim.2019.2947972},

  journal      = {IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement},

  number       = 7,

  volume       = 69,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Sun Oct 18 00:00:00 EDT 2020},

  month        = {Sun Oct 18 00:00:00 EDT 2020}

}

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