DT5560SE

Overview

The CAEN Mod.DT5560SE is a Desktop, 32 Channel, 14-bit 125MS/s Waveform Digitizer which features an Open FPGA format which offers the user vast programmable data processing capabilities.

The DT5560SE Open FPGA Digitizer is ideally suited to readout detectors commonly used in HEP and nuclear spectroscopy, exploiting the handy form factor for R&D and prototyping in a laboratory. By taking advantage of the powerful SoC architecture the user can quickly and easily design custom logic and pulse processing algorithms on the open FPGA, as well as develop middleware/software which perfectly matches of the application of interest. No expertise in VHDL/Verilog is required for the user to utilize this powerful tool.

The board can simultaneously manage digital (LVDS, NIM, TTL) and analog signals, thus supporting the implementation of a wide range of functionalities required by physics experiments: Signal Digitization, Complex Trigger Logic, Pulse Height Analysis with MCA capabilities, Time Tagging, Pulse Shape Discrimination, etc. The DT5560 features single-ended analog inputs on LEMO connectors and an advanced programmable input stage with different possible gain and offset, suitable to adapt to a wide range of detectors.

Critical to the DT5560SE design is an open-FPGA architecture. Thanks to SCI-Compiler software, users can combine several processing blocks in a block diagram, supporting the quick and simple development of firmware algorithms critical to data processing. In few clicks, and without the knowledge of any FPGA programming language, it is possible to implement Pulse Height Analysis (PHA), highly accurate event timing and timestamping (TDC), mathematical operations (including data fitting), Pulse shape discrimination (PSD), and much more.

Free and open-source SCI-55×0 readout software is also provided. This open-source demo software is designed to manage the standard pulse height analysis firmware implementing energy measurements using a trapezoidal filter together with waveform recording.

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