The EDRO Board Connected to the Associative Memory: a “Baby” FastTracKer Processor for the ATLAS Experiment | Zendy

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The EDRO Board Connected to the Associative Memory: a “Baby” FastTracKer Processor for the ATLAS Experiment

Author(s) -

A. Annovi,

M. Beretta,

V. Bevacqua,

F. Cervigni,

F. Crescioli,

L. Fabbri,

P. Giannetti,

F. M. Giorgi,

D. Magalotti,

A. Negri,

M. Piendibene,

C. Roda,

C. Sbarra,

M. Villa,

R Vitillo,

G. Volpi

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

physics procedia

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.26

H-Index - 61

ISSN - 1875-3892

DOI - 10.1016/j.phpro.2012.02.502

Subject(s) - atlas (anatomy) , atlas experiment , computer science , computer hardware , cluster analysis , content addressable memory , computer graphics (images) , physics , detector , artificial intelligence , telecommunications , artificial neural network , paleontology , biology

The FastTracKer (FTK), a hardware dedicated processor, performs fast and precise online full track reconstruction at the ATLAS experiment, within an average latency of few dozens of microseconds. Before production of the nal system for tracking in high-occupancy conditions with the best of available technology, we plan to use existing prototypes of the FTK hardware to exercise its functions in the ATLAS environment. We describe the “baby FTK”, consisting of a few hardware elements implementing the rst stages of the system, and discuss our plans to grow the system into a full-functionality FTK “vertical slice” covering a small projective wedge of the detector. We report on the performances and structure of the “baby FTK”, including the pixel/strip hit clustering (clustering mezzanine), hit organization and distribution (EDRO) and the Associative Memory pattern recognition function. We describe briey also the possible future evolution including the addition of the Track Fitter

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