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NIM A Article on the Use of 2.5 GSPS 14-Bit SIS1160/SFMC01 PCIe Digitizer for Prompt Gamma-ray Measurements During Proton Therapy Treatments

The use of a SIS1160 PCI Express carrier with a SFMC01 Digitizer FMC for dead-time free data acquisition during proton therapy treatments is described in the NIM A article under the link below: A dead-time-free data acquisition system for prompt … Continue reading

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Multiple SIS3316 Digitizer Readout Performance over 10G Ethernet Switch

GBit/s Ethernet readout of a 16 channel SIS3316 125/250 MSPS digitizer yields a block transfer throughput in excess of 80 MByte/s. Parallel readout of multiple SIS3316s over a 10 GBit/s (10G) switch into a computer with 10G Ethernet card is … Continue reading

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n/Gamma separation and TOF histogramming with SIS3316

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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New SIS3316 firmware online

New SIS3316 firmware online under struck.de/sis3316firm.html . Featuring fully licensed Ethernet core and external bank switch. release related to Firmware Versions – VME FPGA: V3316-2003 (0x33162003) – ADC FPGAs: V0250-0003 (0x02500003) Bug fixes: – UDP read of ADC FPGA Status … Continue reading

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New SIS3316 250 MSPS 14-bit digitizer firmware with standalone Ethernet support

The 2nd major revision of the SIS3316 firmware is online under www.struck.de/sis3316firm.html. Besides bug fixes it offers GBit Ethernet functionality and a dual threshold mechanism.

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Struck Berkeley RT12 xTCA Workshop Presentation

The 6th ATCA /MicroTCA for Physics Workshop was held prior to the Berkeley 2012 IEEE RT conference.  The MTCA.4 RTMs for Generic Fast ADC-DAC is online here.

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Framework for custom firmware for SIS3305 GSPS Digitizer available

User firmware designs for the 8 channel 1.25 GSPS 10-bit SIS3305 digitizer can be based on the new framwork. The user has access to the data stream from the ADC chip and control over the memory controller. The VME interface provides 16 registers … Continue reading

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SIS3316 16 channel 125/250 MSPS 16/14-bit VME digitizer family

We are about to double the channel density per single width VME card with the SIS3316 high speed high resolution digitizer design. The two members of the new family are: SIS3316-14-250 the 250 MSPS 14-bit card  SIS3316-16-125 the 125 MSPS  … Continue reading

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Paper on SIS3301 100 MS/s 14-bit digitizer in the LUX Dark Matter Experiment DAQ

A preprint with the description of the use of the SIS3301 VME digitizers in the data acquisition chain of the liquid Xenon LUX Dark Matter detector was released on August 11th. 2011. A total of 122 PMTs is read out … Continue reading

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New SIS8300 V2 digitizer firmware 0x1102 online

Please go to sis8300firm.html to access the current 0x1102 firmware for the V2 hardware design. The underlying FPGA VHDL project will be made available on request. A user DMA interface as well as the possiblity to generate interrupts from user firmware … Continue reading

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