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UK/HCAL common issues

UK/HCAL common issues. Paul Dauncey Imperial College. Outline: UK commitments Trigger issues DAQ issues Readout electronics issues Many more questions than answers!. UK commitments. The CALICE-UK groups have bid for funding to do: Physics prototype ECAL readout electronics

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UK/HCAL common issues

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  1. UK/HCAL common issues Paul Dauncey Imperial College Outline: • UK commitments • Trigger issues • DAQ issues • Readout electronics issues Many more questions than answers! UK/HCAL common issues

  2. UK commitments The CALICE-UK groups have bid for funding to do: • Physics prototype ECAL readout electronics • This might be reusable for tile HCAL but we are short on engineering effort for major extra work • Physics prototype general data acquisition (DAQ) system • This must include control of the trigger, but we will not have funding for the trigger itself We will hear if funded in ~ three weeks (1 July) UK/HCAL common issues

  3. Why am I at an HCAL meeting? We are currently writing specifications for the UK items: http://www.hep.ph.ic.ac.uk/~dauncey/lc/specification.ps To complete this, we need to know: • What are the HCAL interactions with the trigger? • What are the HCAL interactions with the DAQ? • Are there small changes we can make to the readout electronics to enable it to work easily with the tile HCAL? The answers may already be known: • If so, please direct us to the documentation! • If not, can we make decisions soon? UK/HCAL common issues

  4. Trigger: latency What is the allowable latency of the trigger? • The ECAL needs the sample-and-hold to be timed to coincide with the shaped pulse peak at 180ns after the event • What are the corresponding numbers for the two HCAL options? • How sensitive is the timing? • Where will the timing be adjusted? • Will it vary channel-to-channel? UK/HCAL common issues

  5. Trigger: distribution What inputs from the trigger are needed? • Will trigger distribution to the whole of the HCAL be done within its electronics? • If not, how many input trigger lines are needed? • What signal level will they be; LVDS? • Will the HCAL allow a trigger to be aborted? • Required in ECAL if second particle arrives within ~ 100ns • Will HCAL electronics be retriggerable without readout? UK/HCAL common issues

  6. Trigger: calibration Is there HCAL front-end circuitry for a calibration signal? • How will selection of this be done? • Trigger must be switched to calibration mode • Is timing identical for calibration and real events? • ECAL may need different times to the sample-and-hold between the calibration pulse and real events due to change of pulse shape • Is this true for the HCAL? If so, where will the adjustment be made? UK/HCAL common issues

  7. DAQ: event sizes What are the expected data sizes? • ECAL will not be threshold-suppressed • 9720 channels with 16 bits every event ~ 19 kBytes • What are the corresponding numbers for the HCAL options? • ? Tile HCAL is up to 1200 channels, each 16 bits, so total ~ 2 kBytes • ? Digital HCAL is up to 38 layers, 10k channels/layer, total 380k channels, each 1 bit ~ 50 kBytes • Will the HCAL have threshold suppression? • If so, what are the expected number of channels to read out? UK/HCAL common issues

  8. DAQ: event numbers What are the requirements for numbers of events? • What event rate is needed for the DAQ? • We assume 100Hz is adequate, 1kHz is prefered • What is the total number of events needed? • We assume ~ 106 events per set-up (i.e. energy, particle type, etc.) • We assume between 10 and 100 set-ups (? e.g. what range of energies are needed?) giving 107 to 108 events total • Total sample of 108 events at 100Hz is 106 secs or 2 weeks actual running time UK/HCAL common issues

  9. DAQ: electronics What is the readout interface? • ECAL will be purely VME • Crate controller, trigger board and 15 readout boards occupy 17 slots of 21 slot crate • Can HCAL be made VME also? • If so, then how many slots are needed? If HCAL can fit into four slots, only one crate needed • If not, a VME accessible interface (e.g. from CAMAC) will need to be supplied UK/HCAL common issues

  10. DAQ: other issues • What is the output data format? • Needs to be machine-independent and easy to use • We suggest ROOT-based files • Are we restricted by a 2 Gbyte file size limit? • Older operating systems will not deal with bigger files • Older ftp will not transfer bigger files • With digital HCAL, this is only ~30k events, i.e. 5 minutes of running UK/HCAL common issues

  11. Readout electronics Can ECAL readout boards be used for tile HCAL? (We assume digital HCAL is too different…) • Interface is through 36-pin connector • 18 signals, • Mixed analog and digitial • All differential • Not yet completely defined • Still time for changes • Each ECAL readout board handles 6 cables • Identical signals on all 6 • Total of 15 boards, 90 cables in system UK/HCAL common issues

  12. Connector signals UK/HCAL common issues

  13. ECAL VFE • ECAL Very Front End (VFE) chip handles 18 channels • Serial readout using a shift register • All shift register logic controlled by FPGA on readout board; can be made flexible, e.g. number of clocks • What is readout scheme for tile HCAL? Is it multiplexed? Is it compatible with these connectors? • Analog channel output digitised using (we hope!) 16-bit ADCs • Maybe 14-bit if cannot find fast enough components • Voltage range not yet specified; what is range for tile HCAL? Mounting different level converters would be possible if we can find compatible components UK/HCAL common issues

  14. Conclusions • Many unknowns (to us) which need to be determined before we can finalise the specifications • Schedule for first readout board prototype is early 2003 • Need ~ 6 months to design (from scratch) • Need answers to questions within ~ 1 month • We will try to retain maximum flexibility • But difficult if significant cost or effort UK/HCAL common issues

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