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TTL Control I/O option for SIS3316 available

Posted on June 5, 2015 by mki

The TTL control I/O option for the SIS3316 is finally available. It conists of two piggy cards that can be installed on new units or retrofitted on existing boards in the factory or by skilled electronics workshop personnel. The outputs … Continue reading →

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SIS3820 Firmware with new LNE/CIP Features

Posted on December 13, 2014 by mki

Thanks to Mark Rivers from the University of Chicago for proposing  the incorporation of LNE/CIP delay, stretcher and invert functionality into the SIS3820 Multi Purpose Scaler firmware to facilitate the use of the LNE/CIP output to interface to external hardware. The … Continue reading →

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Installation of SIS1100 driver under CENTOS7

Posted on November 12, 2014 by mki

Issue: Installation of SIS1100 driver in a new work station with CENTOS7 results in  error message upon compilation: make -C /lib/modules/3.10.0-123.8.1.el7.x86_64/build SUBDIRS=/home/dacq/SIS1100/sis1100-2.13-9/dev/pci modules make: *** /lib/modules/3.10.0-123.8.1.el7.x86_64/build: No such file or directory.  Stop. make: *** [driver] Error 2 Solution: Installation of the … Continue reading →

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SIS8300-L MLVDS Input/Output Control register firmware bug

Posted on August 22, 2014 by mki

MLVDS Input/Output Control register 0x12 below release 0x1007 has a copy&paste bug in the top level VHDL code, which is affecting triggering of MLVDS input 7. The bug is fixed in macro and synthesized versions from 0x1007 on. Thanks to … Continue reading →

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n/Gamma separation and TOF histogramming with SIS3316

Posted on March 19, 2014 by mki

Custom firmware was developed for the 16 channel SIS3316 250 MSPS 14-bit digitizer for a n/Gamma separation with firmware TOF (time of flight) histogramming capability. The user can configure the gates to be histogrammed. Both readout over VME and Ethernet … Continue reading →

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SIS8300-L/DWC8VM1 combination as single cavity LLRF solution

Posted on March 16, 2014 by mki

The combination of the SIS8300-L digitizer AMC and the DWC8VM1 Rear Transition Module (RTM) can be used as single cavity Low Level Radio Frequency (LLRF) controls solution for cavities with frequencies ranging from 700 MHz to 4 GHz. A first … Continue reading →

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Averaging mode of operation for SIS3316 Digitizer

Posted on February 19, 2014 by mki

The option to average over 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128 and 256 samples for slower speed sampling at higher resolution was added to the SIS3316 firmware. SIS3316 averaging functionality short writeup

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Peak and Charge Sensing Mode of Operation Firmware for SIS3316 Digitizer

Posted on February 10, 2014 by mki

Peak and charge sensing ADC functionality with external gate was added to the SIS3316 firmware (limited to the 250 MSPS version for the time being). SIS3316 Peak and Charge sensing functionality short writeup 

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SIS8300 V2 and SIS8300 L MMC/IPMI hex files online

Posted on November 4, 2013 by mki

The current MMC code for the SIS8300 V2 and SIS8300-L MTCA.4 digitizers is available on the SIS8300 firmware page now. www.struck.de/sis8300firm.html

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SIS3153 USB3.0 to VME interface shipping

Posted on October 25, 2013 by mki

More information on software support and performance will be put online shortly. www.struck.de/sis3153.html

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