Author: Saji, C.
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WECOCB03 Development of a Front-end Data-Acquisition System with a Camera Link FMC for High-Bandwidth X-Ray Imaging Detectors 1028
 
  • C. Saji, T. Ohata, T. Sugimoto, R. Tanaka, M. Yamaga
    JASRI/SPring-8, Hyogo-ken, Japan
  • T. Abe
    RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Innovative Light Sources Division, Hyogo, Japan
  • T. Kudo
    RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Sayo-cho, Sayo-gun, Hyogo, Japan
 
  X-ray imaging detectors are indispensable for synchrotron radiation experiments and growing up with larger number of pixels and higher frame rate to acquire more information on the samples. The novel detector with data rate of up to 8 Gbps/sensor, SOPHIAS, is under development at SACLA facility. Therefore, we have developed a new front-end DAQ system with high data rate beyond the present level. The system consists of an FPGA-based evaluation board and a FPGA mezzanine card (FMC). As the FPGA interface, FMC was adopted for supporting variety of interfaces and considering COTS system. Since the data transmission performance of the FPGA board in combination with the FMCs was already evaluated as about 20 Gbps between boards, our choice of devices has the potential to meet the requirements of SOPHIAS detector*. We made a FMC with Camera Link (CL) interface to support 1st phase of SOPHIAS detector. Since almost CL configurations are supported, the system handles various types of commercial cameras as well as new detector. Moreover, the FMC has general purpose input/output to satisfy various experimental requirements. We report the design of new front-end DAQ and results of evaluation.
* A Study of a Prototype DAQ System with over 10 Gbps Bandwidth for the SACLA X-Ray Experiments, C. Saji, T. Ohata, T. Sugimoto, R. Tanaka, and M. Yamaga, 2012 IEEE NSS and MIC, p.1619-p.1622
 
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