An FPGA-based digital triggering system with model-integrated configuration environment for the control of NIM electronics

• Main Author: Mohapi, Lerato Jerfree
• Other Authors: Winberg, Simon
• Format: Dissertation
• Language: English
• Published: University of Cape Town 2015
• Subjects: Electrical Engineering
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12024

Includes abstract. === Includes bibliographical references. === This dissertation presents a project to develop a real-time trigger that is hardware reconfigurable, triggering on user specified events, and captures data for permanent storage and later processing. This triggering platform is planned to replace previous analogue triggering systems that involve time-consuming manual tasks of connecting analogue electronics with NIM components. These manual tasks involve a multitude of wiring connections and their timings are error prone. Multiple on-going experiments could not time-share the expensive NIM electronics, implying lengthy waits between experiments and inefficient resource us- age. The new triggering platform provides significant time saving for physicists setting up experiments, together with a model- based system that speeds up the design and setting-up of experiments.