Abstract
The ADAPT telescope is a gamma ray telescope to be flown over Antarctica to demonstrate many key technologies for the APT gamma ray astronomy mission. The detector captures incoming radiation with a grid of scintillating fibers, which are then fed through SiPMs and into detectors. The detectors output a bit rate that is too high for the main CPU to process, so FPGAs are utilized to preprocess the data. These FPGAs are designed using High-Level Synthesis, a design technology that removes the need for VHDL and allows C++ or other languages to be used in its place. In this project, the FPGA designs are modified to introduce a bypass path, which is both used for ground-side debugging and when pair production events are noted, requiring a raw data buffer to be saved.
Document Type
Article
Class Name
Electrical and Systems Engineering Undergraduate Research
Date of Submission
4-23-2024
Recommended Citation
Cook, Ben, "Data Flow Design for a Gamma-Ray Telescope" (2024). Electrical and Systems Engineering Undergraduate and Graduate Research. 26.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/eseundergraduate_research/26