1. SCT Trigger/Logic Card
SCT is developing a new trigger/logic card which might be of interest to other subsystems
What is it?
What will it do?
What to do if you want one (or two or…) ?
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What is it?
Digital Atlas VmeElectronics (DAVE) card
6U VME
Hardware writeable by VME and USB
Can also be used on the bench with a power supply
Design/Production/firmware by UCL and Cambridge
Matt Warren, Martin Postranecky(TIM engineers)
Maurice Goodrick(BOC)
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What will it do?
“NIM crate” in a vme card
Generic NIM-like logic operations on NIM/TTL signals
Mini CTP
Programmable random gate generator
Trigger rates up to 100kHz
Simple and complex dead-times
Minimum X clocks between triggers
Minimum X triggers in Y clocks
Readout of trigger history on interrupt
5-10seconds history at 100kHz rate
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NIM/TTL 4
SHP L U T 2 4
RND PS
MSK OR
VETO 4 BG
BUSY
DT:
L1A SD OR
L1A CD
CTP Functionality in DAVE card
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5. What to do if you want one?
Contact me by 19th April
Requests for small iterations in functionality might be possible, but functionality frozen by week starting 19th April
Delivery expected late summer 2010
A small financial contribution might be expected from non-ID subsystems
Existing orders:
SCT (3)
Pixels (2)
TRT (2)
Thilo (2)
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