The CMS tracker readout front end driver

C. Foudas; R. Bainbridge; D. Ballard; I. Church; E. Corrin; J. A. Coughlan; C. P. Day; E. J. Freeman; J. Fulcher; W. J.F. Gannon; G. Hall; R. N.J. Halsall; G. Iles; J. Jones; J. Leaver; M. Noy; M. Pearson; M. Raymond; I. Reid; G. Rogers; J. Salisbury; S. Taghavi; I. R. Tomalin; O. Zorba

doi:10.1109/TNS.2005.860173

The CMS tracker readout front end driver

C. Foudas, R. Bainbridge, D. Ballard, I. Church, E. Corrin, J. A. Coughlan, C. P. Day, E. J. Freeman, J. Fulcher, W. J.F. Gannon, G. Hall, R. N.J. Halsall, G. Iles, J. Jones, J. Leaver, M. Noy, M. Pearson, M. Raymond, I. Reid, G. RogersJ. Salisbury, S. Taghavi, I. R. Tomalin, O. Zorba

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Abstract

The front end driver (FED), is a 9U 400 mm VME64x card designed for reading out the compact muon solenoid (CMS), silicon tracker signals transmitted by the APV25 analogue pipeline application specific integrated circuits. The FED receives the signals via 96 optical fibers at a total input rate of 3.4 GB/sec. The signals are digitized and processed by applying algorithms for pedestal and common mode noise subtraction. Algorithms that search for clusters of hits are used to further reduce the input rate. Only the cluster data along with trigger information of the event are transmitted to the CMS data acquisition system using the S-LINK64 protocol at a maximum rate of 400 MB/sec. All data processing algorithms on the FED are executed in large on-board field programmable gate arrays. Results on the design, performance, testing and quality control of the FED are presented and discussed.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2836-2840
Number of pages	5
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
Volume	52
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TNS.2005.860173
State	Published - Dec 2005

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The authors would like to thank PPARC for the continued financial support. They also wish to thank C. Schwick and D. Gigi from the CMS DAQ Group for providing information help and support for the S-LINK64 hardware. Manuscript received November 15, 2004; revised June 16, 2005. This work was supported by The Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC), U.K. C. Foudas, R. Bainbridge, E. Corrin, J. Fulcher, G. Hall, G. Iles, J. Jones, J. Leaver, M. Noy, M. Raymond, and O. Zorba are with the Imperial College, HEP, London SW7 2BW, U.K. (e-mail: [email protected].). D. Ballard, I. Church, J. A. Coughlan, C. P. Day, E. J, Freeman, W. J. F. Gannon, R. N. J. Halsall, M. Pearson, G. Rogers, J. Salisbury, S. Taghavi and I. R. Tomalin are with the CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot Oxfordshire OX11 0QX, U.K. I. Reid is with Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 3PH, U.K. Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TNS.2005.860173

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Foudas, C., Bainbridge, R., Ballard, D., Church, I., Corrin, E., Coughlan, J. A., Day, C. P., Freeman, E. J., Fulcher, J., Gannon, W. J. F., Hall, G., Halsall, R. N. J., Iles, G., Jones, J., Leaver, J., Noy, M., Pearson, M., Raymond, M., Reid, I., ... Zorba, O. (2005). The CMS tracker readout front end driver. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 52(6), 2836-2840. https://doi.org/10.1109/TNS.2005.860173

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