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Low Cost, High-Density Digital Electronics for Nuclear Physics

Award Information
Agency: Department of Energy
Branch: N/A
Contract: DE-SC0009543
Agency Tracking Number: 211481
Amount: $999,792.00
Phase: Phase II
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: 40b
Solicitation Number: DE-FOA-0001019
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2014
Award Year: 2014
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2014-04-08
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2016-04-07
Small Business Information
410 Linden Street
Rochester, NY 14620-2442
United States
DUNS: 47-089027
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: Yes
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Wojciech Skulski
 Dr.
 (585) 256-0842
 info@skutek.com
Business Contact
 Wojciech Skulski
Title: Dr.
Phone: (585) 256-0842
Email: info@skutek.com
Research Institution
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Abstract

The DOE supports development of technologies essential to experiments in nuclear physics. The channel count of modern nuclear physics experiments has risen into thousands. There is need for cost effective, high density data acquisition (DAQ) systems with many thousands of channels capable of in situ signal analysis to avoid storing vast quantities of raw waveform data. Our approach will permit development of large scale, digital DAQ systems at cost comparable with the application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) implementations. We will develop cost effective digital DAQ modules providing dozens of channels of waveform digitization, on-board FPGA, Ethernet, USB-2, and VME interfaces, and on-board processor running Linux. The digitizers will participate in a novel system architecture that will enable building DAQ systems with thousands of channels. Commercial Applications and Other Benefits: Future applications will include nuclear physics, high energy physics, nuclear astrophysics, homeland security, and education. Public will benefit through electronics that will be more flexible and cheaper than current electronics.

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