Digital Pulse Processing (DPP)

Digital Pulse Processing (DPP) firmware transforms CAEN digitizers into fully integrated digital spectrometers and multichannel acquisition systems, replacing traditional analog front-end chains with FPGA-based real-time signal processing. By implementing functions such as shaping amplification, charge integration, peak detection, discrimination, gating and data reduction directly in firmware, DPP enables compact, synchronized and highly scalable acquisition architectures for nuclear and particle physics, radiation detection and applied instrumentation.

Different DPP algorithms target specific measurement requirements: pulse-height analysis for energy spectroscopy, charge integration and pulse-shape discrimination for scintillation detectors and neutron/gamma separation, and zero-suppressed waveform acquisition for large-channel experiments. These firmware options are tightly integrated with CAEN digitizer families and controlled through advanced software environments, enabling multi-board synchronization, coincidence logic, list-mode acquisition and high-throughput data reduction within a unified digital framework.