The back-end electronics of the time projection chambers in the T2K experiment

Conference Record - 2010 17th IEEE-NPSS Real Time Conference, RT10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Calvet, D ^a   Mandjavidze, I ^a   Andrieu, B ^b   Le Dortz, O ^b   Terront, D ^b   Vallereau, A ^b   Gutjahr, C ^c   Mizouchi, K ^c   Ohlmann, C ^c   Sanchez, F ^d  

^a CEA SACLAY   (France)

^b CENTRE DE CALCUL DE L INSTITUT NATIONAL DE PHYSIQUE NUCLEAIRE ET DE PHYSIQUE DES PARTICULES   (France)

^c TRIUMF   (Canada)

^d BARCELONA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONICS SYSTEM; FLEXIBLE SYSTEM; FRONT END ELECTRONICS; GLOBAL DATA; NEUTRINO EXPERIMENTS; POWERPC PROCESSORS; REAL TIME; REFERENCE CLOCK; SOFTWARE IMPLEMENTATION; TIME PROJECTION CHAMBERS;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DATA REDUCTION; EMBEDDED SOFTWARE; ENGINEERING EXHIBITIONS; EXPERIMENTS; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); FIRMWARE;

FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS;

EID: 79956052906     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RTC.2010.5750357     Document Type: Conference Paper

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