Medipix2 parallel readout system

FANTI, VIVIANA;Marzeddu R;RANDACCIO, PAOLO

2003-01-01

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Abstract

A fast parallel readout system based on a PCI board has been developed in the framework of the Medipix collaboration. (1) The readout electronics consists of two boards: the motherboard directly interfacing the Medipix2 chip, and the PCI board with digital I/O ports 32 bits wide. The device driver and readout software have been developed at low level in Assembler to allow fast data transfer and image reconstruction. The parallel readout permits a transfer rate up to 64 Mbytes/s. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.