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Description
Developing a new silicon detector requires significant effort for preparing the readout hardware and software for the prototype to be operated in the laboratory and test beams. The Caribou DAQ framework significantly reduces the development effort and cost for such readout systems. By utilizing modern system-on-chip (SoC) platforms, it combines programmable logic and a processing system and thereby brings unprecedented flexibility to the DAQ design. A universal interface card connects the SoC with the detector prototype, housing power supplies for biasing as well as DACs and ADCs for setting and measuring operational parameters, test pulses, etc. Through this versatile hardware and the modular design, the turnaround time for supporting new detectors is minimized. The system is completed by a set of configurable firmware blocks for commonly used functionality as well as the DAQ software Peary.
This talk gives an overview of the Caribou system and presents recent applications and developments, such as the integration of new detector chips: FASTPIX is a monolithic pixel sensor demonstrator chip with sub-nanosecond time resolution implemented in a modified 180 nm CMOS imaging process. The DPTS and APTS are prototype chips using a modified 65 nm process. An oscilloscope based readout implemented in Caribou is used for laboratory and beam tests.
