ISTITUTO NAZIONALEDI FISICA NUCLEARE

The International School of Trigger and Data Acquisition 20119 - 16 February, 2011

Rome, Italy COVERED TOPICS

International OrganizationCommitteeS. Falciano (INFN Roma)M. Joos (CERN)K. Kordas (Thessaloniki)A. J. Lankford (UCI)L. Mapelli (CERN)R. McLaren (CERN)N. Neufeld (CERN)E. Pasqualucci (INFN Roma)J. Petersen (CERN)E. Petrolo (INFN Roma)G. Ünel (UCI)

http://www.roma1.infn.it/isotdaq2011/

The target audience for the school is MSc and PhD students aiming to continue theircareer in physics, with special interest on particle and accelerator physics.The school will be held in English and will host 40 students. The program consists oflectures and laboratory exercises spanning from the basics of readout systems to thereview of the state of the art TDAQ systems used in the LHC experiments at CERN.

Basics and Terminology•Computing•Trigger•Data Acquisition•Detector Readout

DAQ Hardware and Software•ADC, TDC, DAC units•Event & Buffer Management•Realtime & Threaded Programming

Trigger Hardware and Software•NIM modules•Front-end Electronics•FPGA Programming

Data Transfer Technologies•VMEbus, PCI•Modular Electronics•Data Networks•Data Storage

Review TalksFrom test-beams to large LHC experiments

ISOTDAQ 2011