New Focal Plane Array Controller for the Instruments of the Subaru Telescope

Details New Focal Plane Array Controller for the Instruments of the Subaru Telescope New Focal Plane Array Controller for the Instruments of the Subaru Telescope

Mar 2006

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The Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Volume 118, Issue 841, pp. 478-488.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Instrumentation: Detectors, Techniques: Image Processing

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We have developed a next-generation data acquisition system, MESSIA5 (Modularized Extensible System for Image Acquisition), which comprises the digital part of a focal plane array controller. The new data acquisition system was constructed based on a 64 bit, 66 MHz PCI (peripheral component interconnect) bus architecture and runs on an x86 CPU computer with (non-real-time) Linux. The system, including the CPU board, is placed at the telescope focus, and standard gigabit Ethernet is adopted for the data transfer, as opposed to a dedicated fiber link. During the summer of 2002, we installed the new system for the first time on the Subaru prime-focus camera Suprime-Cam and successfully improved the observing performance.

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