Controller and data acquisition system for SIDECAR ASIC driven HAWAII detectors

Anamparambu Ramaprakash; Mahesh Burse; Pravin Chordia; Kalpesh Chillal; Abhay Kohok; Vilas Mestry; Sujit Punnadi; Sakya Sinha

doi:10.1117/12.858455

19 July 2010 Controller and data acquisition system for SIDECAR ASIC driven HAWAII detectors

Anamparambu Ramaprakash, Mahesh Burse, Pravin Chordia, Kalpesh Chillal, Abhay Kohok, Vilas Mestry, Sujit Punnadi, Sakya Sinha

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Proceedings Volume 7742, High Energy, Optical, and Infrared Detectors for Astronomy IV; 77422I (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.858455
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2010, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

SIDECAR is an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), which can be used for control and data acquisition from near-IR HAWAII detectors offered by Teledyne Imaging Sensors (TIS), USA. The standard interfaces provided by Teledyne are COM API and socket servers running under MS Windows platform. These interfaces communicate to the ASIC (and the detector) through an intermediate card called JWST ASIC Drive Electronics (JADE2). As part of an ongoing programme of several years, for developing astronomical focal plane array (CCDs, CMOS and Hybrid) controllers and data acquisition systems (CDAQs), IUCAA is currently developing the next generation controllers employing Virtex-5 family FPGA devices. We present here the capabilities which are built into these new CDAQs for handling HAWAII detectors. In our system, the computer which hosts the application programme, user interface and device drivers runs on a Linux platform. It communicates through a hot-pluggable USB interface (with an optional optical fibre extender) to the FPGA-based card which replaces the JADE2. The FPGA board in turn, controls the SIDECAR ASIC and through it a HAWAII-2RG detector, both of which are located in a cryogenic test Dewar set up which is liquid nitrogen cooled. The system can acquire data over 1, 4, or 32 readout channels, with or without binning, at different speeds, can define sub-regions for readout, offers various readout schemes like Fowler sampling, up-theramp etc. In this paper, we present the performance results obtained from a prototype system.

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Anamparambu Ramaprakash, Mahesh Burse, Pravin Chordia, Kalpesh Chillal, Abhay Kohok, Vilas Mestry, Sujit Punnadi, and Sakya Sinha "Controller and data acquisition system for SIDECAR ASIC driven HAWAII detectors", Proc. SPIE 7742, High Energy, Optical, and Infrared Detectors for Astronomy IV, 77422I (19 July 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.858455

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