GET: A generic electronics system for TPCs and nuclear physics instrumentation

Abstract General Electronics for TPCs (GET) is a generic, reconfigurable and comprehensive electronics and data-acquisition system for nuclear physics instrumentation of up to 33792 channels. The system consists of a custom-designed ASIC for signal processing, front-end cards that each house 4 ASIC chips and digitize the data in parallel through 12-bit ADCs, concentration boards to read and process the digital data from up to 16 ASICs, a 3-level trigger and master clock module to trigger the system and synchronize the data, as well as all of the associated firmware, communication and data-acquisition software. An overview of the system including its specifications and measured performances are presented.

G. Cardella | E. De Filippo | F. Druillole | E. Delagnes | T. Marchi | A. Trifirò | Wolfgang Mittig | A. Fritsch | Faisal T. Abu-Nimeh | Shebli Anvar | Yassid Ayyad | P. Hellmuth | J. L. Pedroza | P. Baron | J. Pancin | B. Blank | Daniel Bazin | J. Giovinazzo | Jiecheng Yang | H. De Witte | Riccardo Raabe | G. Wittwer | P. Russotto | F. Saillant | M. Blaizot | G. F. Grinyer | C. Belkhiria | B. Raine | P. Roussel-Chomaz | S. De Luca | E. V. Pagano | J. Pibernat | E. Delagnes | P. Baron | G. Saccâ | A. Trifirò | F. Druillole | S. Anvar | W. Mittig | Jiecheng Yang | J. Pancin | P. Sizun | D. Bazin | W. G. Lynch | T. Isobe | T. Marchi | S. Ceruti | N. Usher | L. Martina | P. Hellmuth | C. Huss | A. Rebii | B. Blank | P. Roussel-Chomaz | R. Raabe | J. Giovinazzo | M. Babo | G. Grinyer | T. Roger | L. Nalpas | A. Rebii | N. Usher | F. Abu-Nimeh | C. Huss | A. Laffoley | L. Nalpas | E. C. Pollacco | Tan Ahn | A. Arokiaraj | H. Baba | M. Babo | S. Beceiro-Novo | J. Bradt | L. Carpenter | S. Ceruti | B. Duclos | F. Favela | C. Gueye | T. Isobe | B. Lachacinski | A. T. Laffoley | G. Lebertre | L. Legeard | L. Martina | C. Maugeais | O. Poleshchuk | S. Primault | M. Renaud | T. Roger | G. Saccà | P. Sizun | D. Suzuki | J. A. Swartz | A. Tizon | G. Cardella | E. Filippo | E. Pagano | P. Russotto | Y. Ayyad | J. Bradt | H. Witte | D. Suzuki | B. Raine | F. Saillant | M. Renaud | S. Beceiro-Novo | J. Pedroza | E. Pollacco | T. Ahn | O. Poleshchuk | L. Legeard | C. Maugeais | F. Favela | B. Duclos | S. D. Luca | B. Lachacinski | A. Arokiaraj | J. Pibernat | G. Wittwer | A. Tizón | A. Fritsch | L. Carpenter | H. Baba | G. Lebertre | C. Belkhiria | M. Blaizot | C. Gueye | S. Primault | S. Luca

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