This web site is for project information on the design, construction,
commissioning, support and
maintenance of a new trajectory measurement system for the CERN
Proton Synchrotron. The FPGA based system consists of 120 analogue signal
acquisition channels, followed by FPGA based digital signal processing to derive
the positions of the particle bunches undergoing acceleration in the
CERN synchrotron.
The system continuously samples 120 Analogue channels at 125MHz, 14
bits and processes this data in real-time to determine information on
the position of particle bunches as they orbit at around 437kHz. The
system captures and processes 15 billion samples per second. Multiple
Xilinx Vertex 4 FPGA's are employed in a modular system to capture and
process the data. The system is controlled over a Gigabit Ethernet
network from which portions of the resulting data can be accessed. System Overview
There are now two separate TMS systems in use in CERN. One on
the Proton Synchrotron and a four ring version on the Proton
Synchrotron Booster machine.
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