8th International Conference on Position Sensitive Detectors

Simple parallel to serial stream converter for Active Pixel Sensor readout for experiment STAR

3 Sept 2008, 15:10

1h

University of Glasgow

Board: 16

Poster Applications in Nuclear Physics Poster Session 2 - PPE & Nuclear

Speaker

Vasilii Kushpil (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (ASCR))

Description

This paper will describe a new electronic module for conversion of parallel data flow to serial stream in USB2 full handshake mode (named in this paper as converter). The converter is used for investigation of active pixel sensors in NPI of ASCR and in LBL APS group. Readout DAQ software can be run on Win XP OS and Linux OS using this converter. GUI example for DAQ was prepared in Lab Windows and Lab View. The module was designed using virtual periphery concept and it can be easy adapted for many similar tasks for parallel to serial data stream conversion.