Tag Archives: Digitizer

Virtual machine installation for ISE 14.7/Impact

Posted on January 13, 2025 by mki

Impact -as part of the ISE tool chain- is required to program older Xilinx FPGAs (respective their attached FLASH memory chips), like the Spartan-2 family on the SIS3316 VME digitizer. The document below describes how to install a virtual machine … Continue reading →

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Skip SIS3316 FLASH ID Code Check

Posted on January 13, 2025 by mki

The obsolete W25Q64FVSSIG FLASH memory of the SIS3316 VME digitizer needed to be replaced with the compatible type W25Q64JVSSIM at some point after the end of iMPACT support.The ‘ID check’ must be deactivated in order to program this new FLASH … Continue reading →

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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

Posted on April 21, 2022 by mki

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

Posted on July 12, 2016 by mki

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

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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New SIS3316 firmware online

Posted on April 12, 2013 by mki

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

Posted on January 29, 2013 by mki

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

Posted on June 17, 2012 by mki

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

Posted on May 4, 2012 by mki

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

Posted on November 4, 2011 by mki

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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