SoC-FPGA based data acquisition system for position sensitive silicon detectors

The System-on-a-Chip Field-Programmable Gate Array (SoC-FPGA) based Data Acquisition System (DAQ) is an autonomous measurement system for the Silicon beam profilometer, the Silicon beam tracker and Silicon modules test benches at the Baryonic Matter at Nuclotron ([email protected]) experiment. The DAQ system provides detector signals digitization, storage and transfer of packaged data to a computer, processing and visualization of decoded information. The system is composed of the multichannel Front-end Electronics (FEE), the SoC-FPGA based Control Unit Carried Board equipped with two 8 channels analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), the Control and Analysis Software (C&A Software). The paper presents the DAQ system structure, the SoC-FPGA design, and the Silicon beam tracker test results.