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2019-004: FELIX- Data Acquisition Card

Invention: 2019-004

Patent Status: U.S. Patent Number 118,160,532 was issued on November 14, 2023

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Summary

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FELIX Board

Data acquisition systems typically convert the measured analog signals into digital values for further processing. It is desirable to have, high bandwidth data acquisition card that exploits the flexibility of a field programmable gate array (FPGA) to support an expanded number of bidirectional data links, that can function as a high-throughput interface between host PC and front-end electronics. Such high bandwidth data acquisition cards will be important in dealing with applications where only a small fraction of the analog signal generated is considered suitable for storage and online analysis. Felix is a multi-purpose routing device, to forward digital data to or from multiple destinations connected via a network.

Description

FELIX acts as a central data distribution where the flow of data through the system is not fixed and can be configured dynamically. FELIX supports different types of traffic flowing through serial electrical links (E-links). The data received via different E-links can be sent to different network destinations or data from different network destinations can be passed from different E-links on to the same GigaBit Transceiver link.

Journal Publication & Intellectual Property

• Development of FELIX based readout system for HV-CMOS sensor testbeam (.pdf)
• US 11,816,053 B2 (.pdf)