Download printable version Difficult Execution Time Data Analysis Radioactive Sources Yes No Purpose of the experiment The aim of this experiment is to compare different trigger algorithms used to detect signal events in digital readout systems. Fundamentals In detector readout electronics, a trigger is used to determine when a valid signal event occurs. Different

Download printable version Difficult Execution Time Data Analysis Radioactive Sources Yes No   Purpose of the experiment The aim of this experiment is to demonstrate how event data acquired in list mode can be read, decoded, and analyzed using a Python application. Fundamentals In digital data acquisition systems, measurements can be stored as list

Download printable version Difficult Execution Time Data Analysis Radioactive Sources Yes No Purpose of the experiment The aim of this experiment is to demonstrate how event-by-event data can be recorded using a list data buffer implemented in FPGA firmware. Students learn how to store and read structured event data including timestamps and Time-over-Threshold (ToT)

Download printable version Difficult Execution Time Data Analysis Radioactive Sources Yes No Purpose of the experiment The aim of this experiment is to show how a Python program can read and display two histograms produced by the FPGA firmware: the Time-over-Threshold (ToT) spectrum and the Time-of-Flight (ToF) spectrum. Students learn how software can be

Download printable version Difficult Execution Time Data Analysis Radioactive Sources Yes No Purpose of the experiment The aim of this experiment is to demonstrate how event counting can be performed within a fixed time interval (dwell time) using FPGA logic. Students learn how to implement a timing-controlled acquisition that counts the number of detected

Download printable version Difficult Execution Time Data Analysis Radioactive Sources Yes No Purpose of the experiment The aim of this experiment is to demonstrate how event counting can be performed within a fixed time interval (dwell time) using FPGA logic. Students learn how to implement a timing-controlled acquisition that counts the number of detected

Download printable version Difficult Execution Time Data Analysis Radioactive Sources Yes No Purpose of the experiment The aim of this experiment is to perform a threshold scan to study how the number of detected events varies as a function of the discriminator threshold. Fundamentals In detector readout systems, the threshold level of a discriminator

Download printable version Difficult Execution Time Data Analysis Radioactive Sources Yes No Purpose of the experiment The aim of this experiment is to demonstrate how a Python application can be used to acquire and visualize waveforms in real time from an FPGA-based system. Fundamentals In many detector readout systems, it is important not only

Download printable version Difficult Execution Time Data Analysis Radioactive Sources Yes No Purpose of the experiment The purpose of this experiment is to demonstrate how a Python application can interact with FPGA firmware to configure and monitor a digital system. Students learn how to access memory-mapped registers in order to control the threshold discriminator

Download printable version Difficult Execution Time Data Analysis Radioactive Sources Yes No Purpose of the experiment Demonstrate how to implement a threshold discriminator and count events exceeding that threshold using logic blocks on the DT1260 with Sci-Compiler. The goal is to convert an analog or digital input into a binary “event” signal and record