DT5740D

The CAEN Mod.DT5740D is a 32 Channel 12 bit 62.5 MS/s (65 MS/s using external clock) Desktop Waveform Digitizer with 2 Vpp single ended input dynamics on ERNI SMC connectors. 16 channels are available also on MCX coaxial connectors. The DC offset is adjustable via a 16-bit DAC on each 8-channel group in the ±1 V range.
The module features front panel Clock Input and a PLL for clock synthesis from internal/external references. The data stream is continuously written in a circular memory buffer. When the trigger occurs, the FPGA writes further N samples for the post trigger and freezes the buffer that can be read by USB or Optical Link. The acquisition can continue without dead time in a new buffer.
Each channel has a SRAM Multi-Event Buffer of 192 kS divisible into 1 ÷ 1024 buffers of programmable size. The readout (by USB or Optical Link) of a frozen buffer is independent from the write operations in the active circular buffer (ADC data storage).
DT5740D supports multi-board synchronization allowing all ADCs to be synchronized to a common clock source and ensuring Trigger time stamps alignment. Once synchronized, all data will be aligned and coherent across multiple DT5740D boards.
The trigger signal can be provided externally via the front panel Trigger Input as well as via the software, but it can also be generated internally thanks to threshold self-trigger capability.
DT5740D houses USB 2.0 and Optical Link interfaces. USB 2.0 allows data transfers up to 30 MB/s. The Optical Link supports transfer rate of 80 MB/s and offers Daisy chain capability. Therefore, it is possible to connect up to 8/32 ADC modules to a single Optical Link Controller (Mod. A2818/A3818).

Software available (Windows and Linux):
CAEN provides drivers for all the different types of physical communication channels, a set of C and LabView libraries (CAENComm and CAENDigitizer), demo applications and utilities:

• CAENUpgrader: tool that allows the user to update the firmware of the digitizers, change the PLL settings, load, when requested, the license for the pay firmware and other utilities.

Standard Firmware compliant:

• CAEN WaveDump: software console application that can be used to configure and readout event data from any model of the CAEN digitizer family and save the data into a memory buffer allocated for this purpose.

Digital Pulse Processing firmware for Physics Applications – this special firmware allows to perform on-line processing on detector signal directly digitizer:

• DPP-QDC Pulse Processing for Charge to Digital Converter DT5740D digitizer running DPP-QDC firmware becomes a digital replacement of Single Gate QDC plus Discriminator and Gate Generator.

• CoMPASS Multiparametric Acquisition Software.