The SNO Front End Data Acquisition Electronics


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The SNO DAQ Custom ASICs and Electronics Boards 
Designed, Built, Debugged and Commissioned by Penn 

With the help of various SNO collaboration institutions 

New - Paper for the IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium,

Toronto, 12 November, 1998
"Performance of the Electronics for the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory"
Available as:   (pdf)  or  (postscript)  or (pressed_duck)

System Overview 
Photograph  Description  Schematics  Mod. List  Status 
db-int picdb-disc pic The Custom ASICs and the Daughterboards  Schematics  (No mods.)  Status 
mb picmb+db picture The Front End Card  Schematics  Mod. List  Status 
pmtic picture The PMT Interface Card  Schematics  Mod. List  Status 
xl1 picture The VME-SNOBus Translator Card (XL1)  Schematics  Mod. List  Status 
xl2 picture The SNOBus-VME Translator Card (XL2)  Schematics  Mod. List  Status 
The SNOBus Backplane  Schematics  Mod. List  Production Complete 
MTCD pictureSNO Timing Rack picture Master Trigger Card/Digital and the SNO Timing Rack  Schematics  Mod. List  Production Complete 
mtca picture Master Trigger Card/Analog  Schematics  (No mods.)  Production Complete 
SNO rack picture The SNO Rack and Beads 

Other Information

  • Jumpers and Mapping for Flat Address Scheme

    • (Click here for postscript)
  • Online Notebook (with Known Problems and Solutions)
  • Online Datasheets for Commercial Parts
    •  ../index.html Back to the Penn-SNO home page.

    This page maintained by
    Doug Cowen (cowen@dept.physics.upenn.edu)

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