Description
The R5560 is a high-density, rack-mountable digitizer designed for large-scale physics experiments requiring fast digitization and flexible data processing. Featuring 128 differential analog channels with 14-bit resolution at 125 MS/s, it integrates a powerful Xilinx Zynq-7000 SoC with an open FPGA architecture, enabling users to implement custom pulse processing algorithms tailored to specific applications.
Key features include:
- 2U, 19" rack-mount form factor with automatic fan control
- 2 Vpp input dynamic range on differential RJ45 connectors
- Support for SCI-Compiler, a block-diagram-based firmware development tool, with a runtime license included
- Multi-board synchronization via a single CAT5e cable, allowing scalability to thousands of channels
- Configurable digital I/Os for interfacing with external systems
- Multiple communication interfaces: USB 3.0, Ethernet, and optional Optical Link
- 2.4" touch screen display for quick configuration and status monitoring
Designed initially for the readout of position-sensitive ³He tubes in combination with the R1443 preamplifier, the R5560 is also suitable for a wide range of detectors, including PMTs, segmented HPGe, and gas tubes. Its flexibility makes it ideal for applications in nuclear spectroscopy, high-energy physics, and imaging with multichannel detectors.
The R5560’s architecture allows simultaneous management of numerous digital (LVDS, NIM, TTL) and analog signals, facilitating the implementation of complex functionalities required by physics experiments, such as signal digitization, complex trigger logic, pulse height analysis with MCA capabilities, time tagging, and pulse shape discrimination.
For firmware development, the SCI-Compiler software provides an intuitive graphical interface, enabling users to program the FPGA without deep knowledge of hardware description languages. Additionally, a free and open-source demo readout software is available to manage standard pulse height analysis firmware, implementing energy measurements using a trapezoidal filter.
