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FRCC01	Design of the Data Acquisition System for the Nuclear Physics Experiments at VECC	controls, cyclotron, status, ion	268
	P. Dhara, P. Maity, A. Roy, P.S. Roy, P. Singhai VECC, Kolkata, India
	The beam from K130 room temperature cyclotron is being extensively used for nuclear physics experiments for last three decades. The typical beam energy for the experiments is approximately 7-10MeV/nucleon for heavy ions and 8-20MeV/nucleon for light ions. The number of detectors used, may vary from one channel to few hundreds of detector channels. The proposed detector system for experiments with the superconducting cyclotron may have more than 1200 detector channels,and may be generating more than one million parameters per second. The VME and CAMAC based data acquisition system (DAQ) is being used to cater the experimental needs. The current system has been designed based on various commercially available modules in NIM, CAMAC and VME form factor. This type of setup becomes very complicated to maintain for large number of detectors. Alternatively, the distributed DAQ system based on embedded technology is proposed. The traditional analog processing may be replaced by digital filters based FPGA boards. This paper describes the design of current DAQ system and the status of the proposed scheme for distributed DAQ system with capability of handling heterogeneous detector systems.
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FRCC01

Design of the Data Acquisition System for the Nuclear Physics Experiments at VECC

controls, cyclotron, status, ion

268

P. Dhara, P. Maity, A. Roy, P.S. Roy, P. Singhai
VECC, Kolkata, India

The beam from K130 room temperature cyclotron is being extensively used for nuclear physics experiments for last three decades. The typical beam energy for the experiments is approximately 7-10MeV/nucleon for heavy ions and 8-20MeV/nucleon for light ions. The number of detectors used, may vary from one channel to few hundreds of detector channels. The proposed detector system for experiments with the superconducting cyclotron may have more than 1200 detector channels,and may be generating more than one million parameters per second. The VME and CAMAC based data acquisition system (DAQ) is being used to cater the experimental needs. The current system has been designed based on various commercially available modules in NIM, CAMAC and VME form factor. This type of setup becomes very complicated to maintain for large number of detectors. Alternatively, the distributed DAQ system based on embedded technology is proposed. The traditional analog processing may be replaced by digital filters based FPGA boards. This paper describes the design of current DAQ system and the status of the proposed scheme for distributed DAQ system with capability of handling heterogeneous detector systems.

Slides FRCC01 [1.239 MB]