Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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9845368 | Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment | 2005 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
We describe two readout systems for hybrid detectors using the Medipix2 single photon counting chip, developed within the Medipix Collaboration. The Medipix2 chip (256Ã256 pixels, 55 μm pitch) has an active area of about 2 cm2 and is bump-bonded to a pixel semiconductor array of silicon or other semiconductor material. The readout systems we are developing are based on two widespread standard PC interfaces: parallel port and USB (Universal Serial Bus) version 1.1. The parallel port is the simplest PC interface even if slow and the USB is a serial bus interface present nowadays on all PCs and offering good performances.
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Authors
Viviana Fanti, Roberto Marzeddu, Giuseppina Piredda, Paolo Randaccio,