Performance of the AMBFTK board for the FastTracker processor for the ATLAS detector upgrade
Creators
- 1. INFN — Sezione di Milano, Via G. Celoria 16, 20133 Milano (Italy)
- 2. Università degli Studi di Milano, Via G. Celoria 16, 20133 Milano (Italy)
- 3. INFN — Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF), Via E. Fermi 40, 00044 Frascati (Italy)
- 4. Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Energies (LPNHE), 4 place Jussieu, 75252 Paris (France)
- 5. Università degli Studi di Pisa, Largo B. Pontecorvo 3, 56127 Pisa (Italy)
- 6. INFN — Sezione di Pisa, Largo B. Pontecorvo 3, 56127 Pisa (Italy)
- 7. INFN — Sezione di Pavia, Via A. Bassi 6, 27100 Pavia (Italy)
- 8. INFN — Sezione di Perugia, Via A. Pascoli, 06123 Perugia (Italy)
- 9. Institut für Technische Informatik der Universität Heidelberg, 68135 Mannheim (Germany)
Description
Modern experiments at hadron colliders search for extremely rare processes hidden in a very large background. As the experiment complexity and the accelerator backgrounds and luminosity increase we need increasingly complex and exclusive selections. The FastTracker (FTK) processor for the ATLAS experiment offers extremely powerful, very compact and low power consumption processing units for the future, which is essential for increased efficiency and purity in the Level 2 trigger selection through the intensive use of tracking. Pattern recognition is performed with Associative Memories (AM). The AMBFTK board and the AMchip04 integrated circuit have been designed specifically for this purpose. We report on the preliminary test results of the first prototypes of the AMBFTK board and of the AMchip04.
Availability note (English)
Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/8/01/C01040Additional details
Identifiers
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Journal of Instrumentation
- Journal Volume
- 8
- Journal Issue
- 01
- Journal Page Range
- p. C01040
- ISSN
- 1748-0221
Conference
- Title
- Topical Workshop on Electronics for Particle Physics 2012
- Acronym
- TWEPP12
- Dates
- 17-21 Sep 2012
- Place
- Oxford (United Kingdom)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 44072009
- Subject category
- S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- ACCELERATORS; EFFICIENCY; HADRONS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; LUMINOSITY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERFORMANCE
- Descriptors DEC
- ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; MICROELECTRONIC CIRCUITS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES