ICALEPCS2013 - List of Authors (Arnaudon, L.)

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Low Cost FFT Scope using LabVIEW cRIO and FPGA

801

O.O. Andreassen, L. Arnaudon, I.T. Matasaho, A. Rijllart
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

At CERN, many digitizers and scopes are starting to age and should be replaced. Much of the equipment is custom made or not available on the market anymore. Replacing this equipment with the equivalent of today would either be time consuming or expensive. This paper looks at the pros and cons of using COTS systems like NI-cRIO and NI-PXIe and their FPGA capabilities as flexible instruments, replacing costly spectrum analyzers and older scopes. It adds some insight on what had to be done to integrate and deploy the equipment in the unique CERN infrastructure, and the added value of having a fully customizable platform, that makes it possible to stream, store and align the data without any additional equipment.

Poster TUPPC095 [5.250 MB]

Paper	Title	Page
TUPPC095	Low Cost FFT Scope using LabVIEW cRIO and FPGA	801
	O.O. Andreassen, L. Arnaudon, I.T. Matasaho, A. Rijllart CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	At CERN, many digitizers and scopes are starting to age and should be replaced. Much of the equipment is custom made or not available on the market anymore. Replacing this equipment with the equivalent of today would either be time consuming or expensive. This paper looks at the pros and cons of using COTS systems like NI-cRIO and NI-PXIe and their FPGA capabilities as flexible instruments, replacing costly spectrum analyzers and older scopes. It adds some insight on what had to be done to integrate and deploy the equipment in the unique CERN infrastructure, and the added value of having a fully customizable platform, that makes it possible to stream, store and align the data without any additional equipment.
	Poster TUPPC095 [5.250 MB]