The FERMI is a data acquisition system for calorimetry experiments in high energy physics at the LHC, CERN. The system contains a large number of acquisition channels, with a precision of 16 bits and a sampling rate of 40 MHz. A large part of the information driven by the channels is processed locally, to reduce the amount of data. This requires to cluster several channels by adding them. The paper presents the design of a fast, low cost adder chip, based on the implementation of column compression techniques for the computation of integer addition. Since the system is operating in a radiation-hard environment, fault tolerance (namely fault detection) is implemented by means of arithmetic codes.

Fast arithmetic and fault tolerance in the FERMI system

BREVEGLIERI, LUCA ODDONE;DADDA, LUIGI;PIURI, VINCENZO
1997-01-01

Abstract

The FERMI is a data acquisition system for calorimetry experiments in high energy physics at the LHC, CERN. The system contains a large number of acquisition channels, with a precision of 16 bits and a sampling rate of 40 MHz. A large part of the information driven by the channels is processed locally, to reduce the amount of data. This requires to cluster several channels by adding them. The paper presents the design of a fast, low cost adder chip, based on the implementation of column compression techniques for the computation of integer addition. Since the system is operating in a radiation-hard environment, fault tolerance (namely fault detection) is implemented by means of arithmetic codes.
1997
Proceedings of the Application Specific Array Processors Conference 1997
081867959X
INF; VLSI; LHC; calorimetry; FERMI project; RD16; CERN; digital front-end; arithmetic; fault tolerance
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