CAPTAN: A hardware architecture for integrated data acquisition, control, and analysis for detector development

the Computing Sector at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory has undertaken the effort of designing an AMC that meets the specifications within the MicroTCA framework. The application chosen to demonstrate the hardware is the real-time event assembly of data taken by a particle tracking pixel telescope. In the past, the telescope would push all of its data to a PC where the data was stored to disk. Then event assembly, geometry inference, and particle tracking were all done at a later time. This approach made it difficult to efficiently assess the quality of the data as it was being taken -at times, resulting in wasted test beam time. Now, we can insert in the data path, between the telescope and the PC, a commercial MicroTCA crate housing our AMC. The AMC receives, buffers, and processes the data from the tracking telescope and transmits complete, assembled events to the PC in real-time. In this paper, we report on the design approach and the results achieved when the MicroTCA hardware was employed for the first time during a test beam run at the Fermi Test Beam Facility in 2012.

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“…The data acquisition station is a Compact And Programmable daTa Acquisition Node (CAPTAN) [4,5,6]. Each CAPTAN has a gigabit Ethernet link.…”

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An application using micro TCA for real-time event assembly

Rivera

Prosser

Uplegger

et al. 2012

2012 18th IEEE-NPSS Real Time Conference

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“…The system's flexibility comes from the use of a central architecture called the Compact And Programmable daTa Acquisition Node (CAPTAN). This architecture was designed to be applicable to a variety of data acquisition problems and thus uses standardized and modular hardware, configware, and software [16]. Physically the sys- JST tem can be separated into three parts namely the Node Processing and Control Board (NPCB), the Gigabit Ethernet Board (GEL), and the Acoustic MEMS Array (AMA).…”

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“…The MEMS board is the hardware which contains the microphones, amplifiers and analog to digital converters (ADC). Figures 5-6 illustrate the three hardware components that make up the system [16].…”

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Direction of Arrival Estimation and Localization Using Acoustic Sensor Arrays

Kunin¹,

Turqueti²,

Saniie³

et al. 2011

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Sound source localization has numerous applications such as detection and localization of mechanical or structural failures in vehicles and buildings or bridges, security systems, collision avoidance, and robotic vision. The paper presents the design of an anechoic chamber, sensor arrays and an analysis of how the data acquired from the sensors could be used for sound source localization and object detection. An anechoic chamber is designed to create a clean environment which isolates the experiment from external noises and reverberation echoes. An FPGA based data acquisition system is developed for a flexible acoustic sensor array platform. Using this sensor platform, we investigate direction of arrival estimation and source localization experiments with different geometries and with different numbers of sensors. We further present a discussion of parameters that influence the sensitivity and accuracy of the results of these experiments.

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“…The CAPTAN is a distributed architecture based on structures known as system nodes [1]. A node is a stack of custom designed boards connected together by a vertical bus.…”

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“…The data acquisition and processing architecture used in this work is called CAPTAN [1] (Compact And Programmable daTa Acquisition Node). Design issues such as array sensitivity, accuracy and geometry of the array will be discussed as well as the system real-time capabilities regarding signal processing and data acquisition.…”

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Acoustic imaging system using the CAPTAN architecture

Turqueti

Saniie

Oruklu

2010

2010 IEEE Instrumentation &Amp; Measurement Technology Conference Proceedings

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Real-time scalable data acquisition systems and high performance transducer arrays are strongly interconnected subjects as most transducer arrays demands sophisticated readout systems in order to perform properly. Sound and ultrasound systems such SOund NAvigation and Ranging (SONAR), Sonography, Speech Recognition, Robotic Sensing and Sound Source Separation are a few of many systems that can deploy transducer arrays and require realtime high speed and expandable data acquisition systems. For these system characteristics such as speed, scalability and real-time signal processing are paramount, demanding highly developed data acquisition and processing platforms. Successfully integrating acoustic arrays with generic data acquisition systems is challenging due to the wide variety of requirements regarding speed, signal processing capabilities and scale that acoustic arrays can present. The objective of this work is to present an acoustic imaging system using CAPTAN (Compact And Programmable daTa Acquisition Node) architecture that can deliver these requirements while closely integrated with a specially designed sound imaging array.

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CAPTAN: A hardware architecture for integrated data acquisition, control, and analysis for detector development

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An application using micro TCA for real-time event assembly

An application using micro TCA for real-time event assembly

Direction of Arrival Estimation and Localization Using Acoustic Sensor Arrays

Acoustic imaging system using the CAPTAN architecture

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