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DPP-ZLEPLUS

Digital Pulse Processing for the Zero Length Encoding

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Home Firmware & SoftwareFirmwareDigital Pulse Processing (DPP) DPP-ZLEPLUS

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  • Enhanced Zero Suppression of input signals

  • Input signal baseline calculation

  • ZLE Threshold (two values for 751 series)

  • Programmable Look Back and Look Forward windows.

  • Acquisition window synchronized with an external trigger or an internal global trigger (725-730 only)

  • Provides also timing information (trigger time stamps)

  • Compliant with:

    • 2740, 2745 Digitizer 2.0

    • 725, 730, 751 Digitizer 1.0

  • Source files and Visual Studio project available for free

Free downloadable DPP-ZLEplus Trial version.

  • The user can download and install DPP-ZLEplus firmware without any license key and use it with time frame limitation: every 30 min the user have to restart (Power off/power on) the board.

  • To get time-unlimited operating DPP-ZLEplus the user should purchase a License.

The Zero Length Encoding (DPP-ZLEplus) firmware has been developed for the 2740, 2745 Digitizer 2.0 and 725, 730, 751 Digitizer 1.0 families. It allows the user to transfer the digitized waveforms in compressed mode, performing an enhanced Zero Suppression algorithm on the input signals.

DPP-ZLE continuously calculates the baseline of the input signals and, whenever a global trigger occurs (external trigger in case of 751 series), it searches for the significant input pulses within an user-defined Acquisition window. An input pulse is considered significant if it either exceeds an Upper Threshold or falls below a Lower Threshold referred either to the calculated baseline or absolute values in case of 751 series, or if it exceeds a single ZLE Threshold in case of 725, 730, 2740 and 2745 series.

It is possible to store not only the over threshold part of the significant pulses, but also the samples before and after the threshold crossing points by means of programmable Look Back and Look Forward windows.

A demo software (DPP-ZLEplus Demo Software) is available with C source files and Visual Studio project for a first approach to the DPP-ZLEplus algorithm principles and for a further personalization. The DPP-ZLEplus Demo software can also control and acquire data from multiple synchronized boards.

Family

725 Digitizer 1.0

730 Digitizer 1.0

751(*) Digitizer 1.0

2740–45 Digitizer 2.0

Channels

Up to 16

Up to 16

Up to 8

Up to 64

Max Sampling Rate

250 MS/s

500 MS/s

1 GS/s

125 MS/s

Resolution

14-bit

14-bit

10-bit

16-bit

Form Factor

Desktop – NIM – VME

Desktop – NIM – VME

Desktop – NIM – VME

Desktop – VME

Applications

  • Neutrino Experiments

  • Read out of a large number of detectors following a global trigger

  • Drift chambers, TPC, Cherenkov detectors

  • Application requiring an effective data reduction

(*)NOTE: DPP-ZLEplus does not support 751 DES mode (2 GS/s sampling frequency).


Ordering Options

Code Description
WFWDPPZLAA25

DPP-ZLE – Digital Pulse Processing Zero Length Encoding for (16ch x 725)

WFWDPPZLAA30

DPP-ZLE – Digital Pulse Processing Zero Length Encoding for (16ch x 730)

WFWDPPZLAA51

DPP-ZLE – Digital Pulse Processing Zero Length Encoding for (8ch x 751)

WFWDPPZLAD25

DPP-ZLE – Digital Pulse Processing Zero Length Encoding for (8ch x 725)

WFWDPPZLAD30

DPP-ZLE – Digital Pulse Processing Zero Length Encoding for (8ch x 730)

WFWDPPZLAD51

DPP-ZLE – Digital Pulse Processing Zero Length Encoding for (4ch x 751)

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