Open AccessGraphical Environmental Tools for Application to Gamma-Ray Energy Tracking Arrays
Author(s) -
D. C. Radford,
Maren Blair,
S. Pauly
Publication year - 2007
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/940304
Subject(s) - field programmable gate array , oak ridge national laboratory , tracking (education) , computer science , computer hardware , digital signal processing , visual programming language , signal (programming language) , energy (signal processing) , key (lock) , embedded system , operating system , physics , psychology , pedagogy , nuclear physics , programming language , quantum mechanics
In this CRADA, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) assisted RIS Corporation of Knoxville, TN, in the development of graphical environment tools for the development and programming of high speed real-time algorithms to be implemented in a Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). The primary application was intended to be digital signal processing for gamma-ray spectroscopy, in particular for Gamma-Ray Energy Tracking Arrays such as the GRETINA project. Key components of this work included assembling an evaluation platform to verify designs on actual hardware, and creating various types of Simulink functional blocks for peak-shaping and constant-fraction discrimination