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

System Overview

Photograph Description Schematics Mod. List Status
db-int pic db-disc pic The Custom ASICs and the Daughterboards Schematics (No mods.) Status
mb pic mb+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 picture SNO Timing Rack picture Master Trigger Card/Digital and the SNO Timing Rack Schematics Mod. List Production Complete
mtca picture Master Trigger Card/Analog
(no photo yet)
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)
    Last updated on $Date: 1998/01/29 19:28:02 $ by $Author: cowen $