Design and implementation of an embedded system for particles detector based on multi-anode PMTs

A. ALMELA; D. ALONSO; M. HAMPEL; A. LUCERO; M. PLATINO; A. SEDOSKI; F. SUAREZ; M. VIDELA; O. WAINBERG

Buenos Aires

Simposio; CTA-Link; 2012

ITeDA (CNEA/CONICET/UNSAM)

This work aims to describe the design and implementation of an embedded system that provides control and monitoring to particle detectors based on multi-anode Photomultiplier tubes (PMT). The embedded system uses a microcontroller with an uCLinux operative system and Ethernet interface. The front-end, used to digitalize the PMT signals, consists of discriminators (one per PMT channel), a FPGA, and a memory bank. The electronics has a low power design to allow its usage in detectors using solar power. The development and performance verification of this system is also shown.