TY  - JOUR
AU  - Barrientos, D.
AU  - Bellato, M.
AU  - Bazzacco, D.
AU  - Bortolato, D.
AU  - Cocconi, P.
AU  - Gadea, A.
AU  - Gonzalez, V.
AU  - Gulmini, M.
AU  - Isocrate, R.
AU  - Mengoni, D.
AU  - Pullia, A.
AU  - Recchia, F.
AU  - Rosso, D.
AU  - Sanchis, E.
AU  - Toniolo, N.
AU  - Ur, C. A.
AU  - Valiente-Dobon, J. J.
PY  - 2015
DA  - 2015//
TI  - Performance of the Fully Digital FPGA-Based Front-End Electronics for the GALILEO Array
T2  - IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci.
JO  - IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
SP  - 3134
EP  - 3139
VL  - 62
IS  - 6
PB  - Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc
KW  - FPGA
KW  - front-end electronics
KW  - gamma-ray spectroscopy
KW  - germanium detectors
AB  - In this work we present the architecture and results of a fully digital Front End Electronics (FEE) read out system developed for the GALILEO array. The FEE system, developed in collaboration with the Advanced Gamma Tracking Array (AGATA) collaboration, is composed of three main blocks: preamplifiers, digitizers and preprocessing electronics. The slow control system contains a custom Linux driver, a dynamic library and a server implementing network services. This work presents the first results of the digital FEE system coupled with a GALILEO germanium detector, which has demonstrated the capability to achieve an energy resolution of 1.53% at an energy of 1.33 MeV, similar to the one obtained with a conventional analog system. While keeping a good performance in terms of energy resolution, digital electronics will allow to instrument the full GALILEO array with a versatile system with high integration and low power consumption and costs.
SN  - 0018-9499
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.3925
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1109/TNS.2015.2480243
DO  - 10.1109/TNS.2015.2480243
LA  - English
N1  - WOS:000372013500005
ID  - Barrientos_etal2015
ER  -