A new wire chamber front-end system, based on the ASD-8 B chip

The Focal-Plane Polarimeter (FPP) for the Big-Bite Spectrometer van den Berg (Nucl Instr. and Meth. B 99 (1995) 637ff) at the KVI requires the read-out of four large-area MWPCs and two VDCs with 3872 wires in-total. The EUROSUPERNOVA collaboration (SNOVA) developed a digital 16 channel preamplifier front-end board, housing two amplifier-shaper-discriminatorchips ASD-8 B. The main features of this board are a fast single-wire readout, a high integration density, a low power consumption and compatibility to common instrumentation standards;The board represents the first successfully running application of the ASD-8 for wire chamber readout. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved

A new wire chamber front-end system, based on the ASD-8 B chip.

The Focal-Plane Polarimeter (FPP) for the Big-Bite Spectrometer van den Berg (Nucl Instr. and Meth. B 99 (1995) 637ff) at the KVI requires the read-out of four large-area MWPCs and two VDCs with 3872 wires in-total. The EUROSUPERNOVA collaboration (SNOVA) developed a digital 16 channel preamplifier front-end board, housing two amplifier-shaper-discriminatorchips ASD-8 B. The main features of this board are a fast single-wire readout, a high integration density, a low power consumption and compatibility to common instrumentation standards;The board represents the first successfully running application of the ASD-8 for wire chamber readout. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved