USB interface for Medipix2 pixel device enabling energy and position-sensitive detection of heavy charged particles

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 563, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 112-115

  Vykydal, Zdenek ^a   Jakubek, Jan ^a   Pospisil, Stanislav ^a  

^a CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Data acquisition; Medipix; Spectroscopy; USB interface; X ray imaging

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; PHOTONS; POWER SUPPLY CIRCUITS; SPECTROMETRY; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; X RAYS;

INTERFACE BOARD; MEDIPIX; USB INTERFACE; X-RAY IMAGING;

INTERFACES (COMPUTER);

EID: 33744988387     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2006.01.114     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Web presentation of the Medipix Collaboration at www.cern.ch/medipix.
2. X. Llopart, M. Campbell, R. Dinapoli, D. San Segundo Bello, E. Pernigotti: Medipix2, a 64k pixel readout chip with 55 μm square elements working in single photon counting mode, In: Proceedings of the IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, San Diego, 4-10 November, 2001.
3. San Segundo Bello D., Van Beuzekom M., Jansweijer P., Verkooijen H., and Visschers J. Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A 509 (2003) 164
4. Fanti V., Marzeddu R., and Randaccio P. Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A 509 (2003) 171
5. Fanti V., Marzeddu R., Piredda G., and Randaccio P. Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A 546 (2005) 286
6. Z. Vykydal, Microprocessor controlled USB interface for Medipix2 detector, Diploma Thesis, CTU in Prague, 2005.
7. USB 1.1 specifications at www.usb.org.
8. FT245BM-Single chip USB to Parallel FIFO datasheet at www.ftdichip.com.
9. ADuC841-Precision Analog Microcontroller datasheet at www.analog.com.
10. Jakubek J., Holy T., Lehmann E., Pospisil S., Uher J., Vacik J., and Vavrik D. Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A 546 (2005) 164