Category Archives: Digitizer

SIS3320 firmware 0x010C for IACK daisy chain bug fix

Posted on May 18, 2011 by admin

The IACK issue fix that was covered for the the SIS3320-250 with firmware 0x2004 was retrofitted to the SIS3320 with 0x010C.  Go to www.struck.de/sis3320firm.htm for the MCS file.

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SIS3302 VxWorks EPICS code from SLS/PSI

Posted on April 28, 2011 by mki

The Swiss Light Sourrce (SLS) has code to run the SIS3302 16-bit 100 MS/s digitizer under EPICS with VME masters running VxWorks. Modifications to the Board Support Package (BSP) are necessary. According to Timo Kohohnen Windriver agrees that the required … Continue reading →

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DESY/EMBL/University Paderborn will use a SIS3302 digitizer system to read out 100 Pixel Canberra Germanium detector

Posted on February 16, 2011 by mki

A Canberra 100 pixel Germanium detector will be installed at a Petra III undulator beamline for X-ray absorption spectroscopy. It will be read out by a VME system consisting of a SIS1100e/3104 PCI Express to VME interface, 100 MS/s 16-bit SIS3302 … Continue reading →

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SIS3320-250 firmware below 0x2004 exhibits IACK daisy chain issue

Posted on February 1, 2011 by mki

Be advised that the 0x2004 firmware should be used for proper IACk daisy chain behaviour. The firmware can be downloaded from www.struck.de/sis3320firm.htm. Serial numbers 29 and above were shipped with generic firmware 0x2004 by default.

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SIS8300 muTCA for Physics Digitizer LINUX driver update available

Posted on January 15, 2011 by mki

V0.04 fixing a DMA related issue was released

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New firmware files for SIS3302 Gamma online

Posted on December 15, 2010 by mki

The mcs files for two new 100 MS/s 16-bit digitizer firmware flavors for Gamma applications are online. Readout speed optimized VME single cycle access for the standard major revision 0x14 and extended raw signal acquisition for the Majorana major revision 0x15.     Download … Continue reading →

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Panda VHDL feature extraction implemented on SIS3302 digitizer

Posted on November 21, 2010 by admin

KVI Groningen and GSI Darmstadt developed VHDL feature extraction algorithms for the PANDA Electromagnetic Calorimeter and tested the implementation with the 100 MS/s 16-bit SIS3302 digitizer. The results were presented as a poster -see the conference record also- during the 2010 Knoxville, … Continue reading →

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