A control board for optical modules of a high-energy neutrino telescope
| Autor: | Alessandro Gabrielli, Enzo Gandolfi, Pierpaolo Ricci |
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| Rok vydání: | 2002 |
| Předmět: |
Physics
Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors business.industry Coaxial cable Applied Mathematics Detector Digital data Electrical engineering Change control board Signal law.invention Optics Neutrino detector law VHDL Neutrino business Instrumentation Engineering (miscellaneous) computer computer.programming_language |
| Zdroj: | Measurement Science and Technology. 13:590-597 |
| ISSN: | 1361-6501 0957-0233 |
| Popis: | The NEutrino Mediterranean Observatory (NEMO) collaboration are involved in research and development work intended to lead to the construction of an underwater km3 scale Cherenkov neutrino detector. This huge detector will be divided into thousands of tree-interconnected modules, hereafter called optical modules or Benthos spheres. The optical modules will be composed of stand-alone underwater spheres connected upwards by a coaxial cable along which digital data will be transferred and received and by which the optical module will be powered. In this paper, an electronic board prototype for the optical modules is described in detail, as regards signal synchronization, filtering, data compression and packing. In other words, we present the control electronics part for the optical modules. The digital blocks have been developed by means of a VHDL-based FPGA design. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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