Forward Muon SCintillators (FMSC)

Detectors

96 FMSC's / octant / layer

Scintillator Front End (SFE) cards

2 SFE's / octant / layer

48 channels / FE card

outputs:

all layers: 1 cable / FE card to fan-in on MCEN card (48 bits / cable)

(then from fan-in to MTCxx cards)

OR

A-layer: 1 cable / FE card to fan-in on MCEN card (48 bits / cable)

(then from fan-in to MTCxx cards)

B & C-layers: 1 cable / FE card to MTC05 (48 bits / cable)

1 cable / FE card to MTC10 (48 bits / cable)

location:

FMSC crates (trusses)

Scintillator Readout Controller (SRC) cards

1 readout controller (RC) / SCRC

1 Digital Signal Processor (DSP) / SCRC

inputs:

3 coax cables / MDRC from MRC for timing signals

1 twisted & flat cable for control signals to and from MRC

outputs:

1 coax cable / MDRC for serial link to L2 (L2 data from DSP via HOTLink)

1 coax cable / MDRC for serial link to MRC (L3 data from DSP via HOTLink)

location:

FMSC crates (trusses)

Front End Crates

8 FE cards / crate

4 octants / layer / crate

12 crates

2.1 kbyte / crate @ 2E32

MSNAE - north A-layer east (octants 1,0,7,6)

MSNAW - north A-layer west (octants 2,3,4,5)

MSNBE - north B-layer east (octants 1,0,7,6)

MSNBW - north B-layer west (octants 2,3,4,5)

MSNCE - north C-layer east (octants 1,0,7,6)

MSNCW - north C-layer west (octants 2,3,4,5)

MSSAE - south A-layer east (octants 1,0,7,6)

MSSAW - south A-layer west (octants 2,3,4,5)

MSSBE - south B-layer east (octants 1,0,7,6)

MSSBW - south B-layer west (octants 2,3,4,5)

MSSCE - south C-layer east (octants 1,0,7,6)

MSSCW - south C-layer west (octants 2,3,4,5)

1 SRC / crate

1 680xx microprocessor card / crate

1 SC LED pulser card / crate

location:

vertical trusses

Last modified: sep 21, 2004

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