PANDA DAQT and FrontEnd Electronics Workshop, Rauischholzhausen Castle

The MVD silicon pixel detector readout architecture will be described. Special emphasis will be put on the full custom ASIC development for the front-end electronic.

Report on the IHEP Protvino group forward shashlyk readout electronics activity: photodetector selection, monitoring system test, PMT HV control.

Presentation of the first PWO matrix measurements with ASIC readout.

A summary of the Orsay meeting on the PANDA EMC electronics will be presented. We will go through the VFE implemented in the cold part and discuss the outlines of the digitization and concentration, the so-called "Multiplexing stage". We will try to give some ideas about the integration of this electronics within the Calorimeter Barrel. We will briefly present the prototypes under development...

The feature-extraction algorithms for the EMC will be presented. During the presentation I will discuss digital filtering used for the signal processing, which resolution can be achieved by the EMC and what the resolution degradation at high rates.

A protoype of the PANDAbarrel DIRC was tested wit a proton beam in September 2009. The readout of the 256 MCP-PMT channels were done with HADES Trigger Readout Boards (TRP) and NINO discriminator boards as addons. The results and experience from this beam times will be presented.

The ongoing investigation of the particle identification using dE/dx method. with STT setup together with resulting requirements for front-end electronics will be presented..

Time to Digital Converters (TDCs) are widely used in many scientific applications. At GSI high-resolution ASIC-TDCs and commercial modules will be utilized in Time-of-Flight detectors for the upcoming FAIR experiments. The time-stretching methods used in high-resolution applications, e.g. the Vernier and the tapped delay lines (TDL) method, have also been successfully implemented in...

This talk will give a brief information concerning the status of the GET4 TDC developement.

96-channel ADC board based on 10-bit 50 MSPS AD9212 chip will be presented. The board is one of the "AddOn" series for the TRB board and is used to collect data from the Shower detector at HADES experiment. The board provides Gb Ethernet output and can export data using UDP datagrams.

Up to now the digitisation part of the FEE and DAQ chain should be realised with COTS components. Espcially for the EMC readout where the digitisation unit has to be placed inside the magnet an application specific highly integrated solution would have some advatages. In this talk the concept for the HitDetection ASIC will be presented. The HitDetection ASIC is a self triggered transient...

In february the tape out of the third iteration of the APFEL preamplifier and shaper ASIC took place. From early summer 200 ASICs will be available for detector tests. So from the ASIC designers point of view the development is completed. We now need to decide which tests have to be integrated into a design readyness review and how much time will be spend on these tests. After the design...

Because of the complexity and the high startup cost of ATCA, initial PANDA DAQ development activities in Forschungszentrum Juelich concentrate on MicroTCA. MicroTCA provides a smooth path to ATCA, since MicroTCA boards can be reused in ATCA shelves by means of AMC carriers and all essential technological challenges, e.g. Management and high speed serial communication links on the backplane,...

An ATCA telecommunication shelf provides power, cooling and high-speed interconnections to up to 14 PANDA Compute Nodes. A single Shelf Manager supervises the installed boards and regulates the power distribution and temperature inside the shelf. The Shelf Manager relies on a local controller on each Compute Node to relay sensor alerts, provide hardware information and power requirements etc....

Few options for implementation of serial links are presented. One option is based on FPGA built-in serial links and another one is a current CERN development of radiation hard serial link called GBT. Proposal for PANDA serial link protocols is presented.

The PANDA detector is a general purposed hadron spectrum planed to operate at the FAIR facility in Darmstadt, Germany. The PANDA EMC detector provides almost 4pi spatial coverage, good granularity and high energy resolution. A novel self-trigger data push data architecture for the PANDA data acquisition system requiring the data from EMC readout electronics to be processed on the fly to...

An online track finder for the PANDA experiment at the future FAIR facility was developed and tested. The central Panda tracking detectors for charged particles will consist of a silicon based micro vertex detector (MVD, 5-7 hits/track) and possibly of a straw tube tracker (STT, 15 double layers of straws). Due to the solenoidal magnetic field, tracks of charged particles can be...

DIRC detectors in the PANDA experiment will give a high photon hit rate. Be it the current algorithms or new ones, they need to be adapted to run on the FFE systems and optimised for speed. And as the mechanical designs are not yet frozen, some minor changes that do not affect the detector performance may significantly ease the burden on the compute nodes.

Partial Reconfiguration (PR) offers the possibility to adaptively change part of the FPGA design without stopping the remaining system. Based on PR technology, we present a comprehensive framework for adaptive computing, in which design key points of hardware processes, system interconnections, Operating Systems (OS), device drivers, scheduler software as well as context switching are...

The use of graphics processor units (GPUs) for event reconstruction in FairRoot will be presented. CUDA (Nvidia’s Compute Unified Device Architecture) development tools are in use for few months now. New features and technologies has arrived at the market from NVIDIA itself (pinned memory) and others companies (OpenCL). In this work, the use of some of these features, pro and contras will be...

Implementation of Gigabit Ethernet on TRB Addon boards is a cheap and efficient way to transport large amount of data from front-end electronics to event builders, and is a solution already used and being tested in HADES experiment in GSI, Darmstadt. The process of gathering data, constructing packets and finally transport them will be covered by my presentation.

The COMPASS experiment at CERN-SPS performed during the 2009 run a measurement of the Primakoff effect. This effect is characterized by high energetic photons in forward direction, which due to a very small angle respectively to the incident beam direction hit only the Electromagnetic Calorimeter in the second spectrometer stage(ECAL2). In order to efficiently detect those events the ECAL2...

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