Performance simulation studies of the clear-PEM DAQ/trigger system

2005 14TH IEEE-NPSS Real Time Conference

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 151-155

  Rodrigues, Pedro ^d   Bento, Pedro ^a   Gonçalves, Fernando ^a,b   Leong, Carlos ^a   Lousã, Pedro ^c   Nobre, João ^c   Silva, José C ^d   Silva, Luís ^c   Rego, Joel ^c   Relvas, Paulo ^c   Teixeira, Isabel C ^a,b   Teixeira, João P ^a,b   Trindade, Andreia ^d   Varela, João ^b,d,e  

^a INESC ID   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^c INOV   (Portugal)

^d Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental   (Portugal)

^e CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; MAMMOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOTODIODES;

DATA STREAMS; POSITRON EMISSION MAMMOGRAPHY SCANNERS; TIME EXTRACTION ALGORITHMS; TRIGGER EFFICIENCY;

PARTICLE DETECTORS;

EID: 33751412257     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RTC.2005.1547398     Document Type: Conference Paper

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