1. HZB Proposal for a – New Readout Board for Delay Line Detectors
Thomas Wilpert / G-A1 / Detector Laboratory

2. Experiments at BER-II – Readout Systems
V1 Membrane Diff. V2 Cold TAS
V3 TOF Spectr. (2014) V4 SANS
V5 NSE
V6 Reflectometer
V7 Tomography B8 n-Activation
V12 USANS
V14 Mirror Test Station
V15 Extreme Env. Diff.
V16 VSANS V17 Detector Test Station
V18 BioRef
V19 PONTO V20 ESS Test Beam Line
Delayline Detector
LPSD Tube 8 2 1 1 1 1 1
544 4 1
112 1 1 1 1 1
112
E1 TAS E2 Flat-Cone Single Crystal Diff.
E3 Residual Stress Diff. E4 Single Crystal Diff.
E5 4-Circle Single Crystal Diff.
E6 Powder Diff.
E7 Strain Scanner
E9 Powder Diff. E10 ³He Diff.
192
ASAX at Bessy

3. MWPC – ³He-2D Detector
EMBL, DENEX (300x300 mm²)
~200 wires/plane

4. Delay Line Technique 1

5. Delay Line Technique 2 50 ns IV110 tr = 1.0 ns
nf = 1.6 db
Z = 50Ω ± 20%
IV118 tr = 1.2 ns nf = 0.4 db
Z = 50Ω ± 20%
(no coils!)
Delay [ns]
Z [Ω]
C [pF]
L [nH] 1 50 20 2 40
100 3 60
150
Delay [ns]
Z [Ω]
C [pF]
L [nH]
2.17 46 47
100
1.97 51 39
1.82 55 33

6. Amplitudes down to noise level low thresholds for high efficiency
Analog Signals
10mV 1V
80 ns
Anode
Anode
Signal/Noise ~ 1/100
Amplitudes down to noise level
low thresholds for high efficiency
only with HZB-amplifiers IV110/IV111/IV112
Development: B. Namaschk / NP-H11
IV110

7. Multi-hit Delay Line Position Encoding

8. TI DSP FPGA acam TDC 256 MB Memory
DeLiDAQ – Delay Line Detector Data Acquisition
TI DSP
FPGA
acam TDC
256 MB Memory
Designed by B. Gebauer (HMI-SF7) and F. Levchanovski
F.V. Levchanovski et al. / Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 529 (2004) 413–416
F.V. Levchanovsky et al. / Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 569 (2006) 900–904

9. DeLiDAQ – Helpful Counters for Detector Setup

10. 5 TDC channels (FPGA-based)
HZB Proposal Up-to-date DeLiDAQ Board
FPGA
5 TDC channels (FPGA-based) ?
like on TRB for HADES (M. Traxler/GSI)

11. Base Board Mini-Module Plus
Virtex-5 FXT Mini-Module Plus used with ASIC & ADC board for MSGC-Detector
development with AGH Krakow (B. Mindur, T. Fiutowski)
ASIC board
ADC board with test points for validation
10 cm
6 cm
Mini-Module Plus Virtex 5 FPGA
Adapter board
2 board-to-board connectors: Samtec QSE F-D-A
New Mini-Module announced with XILINX Kintex-7 FPGA (