Trip-T Front End Board Documentation/TFB Introduction

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TFB Introduction

The TFB is based around the Trip-T chip developed at FermiLab for the D0 detector. There are 4 Trip-Ts on the TFB, each one instrumenting 16 input channels. Everything on the board is controlled from a single Spartan 3 FPGA. The interface to the upstream DAQ electronics (the Readout Merger Module - RMM) is done through a custom serial interface operating at 100MHz describe in the next section. Data are digitised through the use of 2 dual channel ADCs, each channel serving a single Trip-T chip.