Low Threshold Acquisition Controller for Skipper Charge Coupled Devices

MIGUEL SOFO HARO; EDUARDO E. PAOLINI; WILCER, N.; JAVIER TIFFENBERG; FERNANDO CHIERCHIE; ANGEL SOTO; TREPTOW, K; JUAN ESTRADA; GUILLERMO FERNÁNDEZ MORONI; LEANDRO STEFANAZZI; GUSTAVO CANCELO; TED ZMUDA

Mar del Plata

Conferencia; 2019 Argentine Conference on Electronics - CAE2019; 2019

Universidad CAECE Mar del Plata

In this work, the design and preliminary results of the first specially design Skipper-CCD controller, aimed for low threshold particle and astronomy experiments, is presented. The system integrates on a single board: the generation of the clock and bias signals for the sensor; four high-speed analog-to-digitalconverters to digitize the video channels of the CCD; Artix-7 FPGA to perform pixel calculation and board control; a front panel connector for all the signal inspection; and Ethernet port for full operation and data collection through standard network connection to a PC. The system has been fully tested and sampleimages were taken for both conventional and Skipper-CCDs.