Sci-Compiler

Case-Study Case-Study, Multi Channels, Detector, Monitoring Case-Study TM Time Multiplexing Array Detector Diagnostics Statistics

Per-channel health monitoring on an array, out of a single engine

A 16-channel SiPM array, a multi-anode PMT, a strip detector, a segmented drift chamber. They all share a problem that a single-channel instrument does not have: at any moment, some channel is probably misbehaving, and nobody knows which.

Time multiplexing: what a TM signal is and what a lane means

Every block in the Sci-Compiler library now exists in two versions, and the second one is marked TM. Understanding what that means takes about ten minutes and saves a great deal of confusion, because TM is one mechanism that solves two quite different problems, and the mechanism cannot tell you which of the two you are using it for.

Tag: TM

Per-channel health monitoring on an array, out of a single engine

Time multiplexing: what a TM signal is and what a lane means