Speaker
Roberto Ferrari
(INFN - Sezione di Pavia)
Description
Triggering and data acquisition in High-Energy Physics, even in pretty simple cases, require a mixture of electronics, detector and software competences. Indeed, asynchronous signal handling may present critical issues in both digitization and trigger generation.
As a function of the experimental conditions, the physics results may suffer from problems, for example, in signal-to-noise ratio, analogue-to-digital conversion, triggering and dead-time, data transfer bandwidth, modularity and system scalability, hardware and software architecture. Depending on size and time scale of the experiment, the choice of critical components may be forced to stay with commercial as well as home-made products. In the talk, some of the issues and possible
solutions will be highlighted, together with examples of real implementations in HEP experiments or test-beam set-ups.
Primary author
Roberto Ferrari
(INFN - Sezione di Pavia)
