SoC-FPGA based data acquisition system for position sensitive silicon detectors

The System-on-a-Chip Field-Programmable Gate Array (SoC-FPGA) based Data Acquisition System (DAQ) is an autonomous measurement system for the Silicon beam profilometer, the Silicon beam tracker and Silicon modules test benches at the Baryonic Matter at Nuclotron (BM@N) experiment. The DAQ system provides detector signals digitization, storage and transfer of packaged data to a computer, processing and visualization of decoded information. The system is composed of the multichannel Front-end Electronics (FEE), the SoC-FPGA based Control Unit Carried Board equipped with two 8 channels analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), the Control and Analysis Software (C&A Software). The paper presents the DAQ system structure, the SoC-FPGA design, and the Silicon beam tracker test results.