The GigaFitter: Performance at CDF and Perspectives for Future Applications

The Silicon Vertex Trigger (SVT) is a processor developed at CDF experiment to perform online fast and precise track reconstruction. SVT is made of two pipelined processors, the Associative Memory, finding low precision tracks, and the Track Fitter, refining the track quality whith high precision fi...

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Published in:Journal of physics. Conference series 2010-04, Vol.219 (2), p.022001
Main Authors: Amerio, S, Annovi, A, Bettini, M, Bucciantonio, M, Catastini, P, Crescioli, F, Dell'Orso, M, Giannetti, P, Lucchesi, D, Nicoletto, M, Piendibene, M, Volpi, G
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Language:English
Subjects:
Associative memory
Field programmable gate arrays
Luminosity
Microprocessors
Modular structures
Motherboards
Physics
Pulsars
Reconstruction
Sensors
Tracking
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Summary:The Silicon Vertex Trigger (SVT) is a processor developed at CDF experiment to perform online fast and precise track reconstruction. SVT is made of two pipelined processors, the Associative Memory, finding low precision tracks, and the Track Fitter, refining the track quality whith high precision fits. We will describe the architecture and the performances of a next generation track fitter, the GigaFitter, developed to reduce the degradation of the SVT efficiency due to the increasing instantaneous luminosity. The GigaFitter reduces the track parameter reconstruction to a few clock cycles and can perform many fits in parallel, thus allowing high resolution tracking at very high rate. The core of the GigaFitter is implemented in a modern Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA chip, rich in powerful DSP arrays. The FPGA is housed on a mezzanine board which receives the data from a subset of the tracking detector and transfers the fitted tracks to a Pulsar motherboard for the final corrections. Instead of the current 12 boards, one per sector of the detector, the final system will be much more compact, consisting of a single GigaFitter Pulsar board equipped with four mezzanine cards receiving the data from the entire tracking detector. Moreover, the GigaFitter modular structure is adequate to scale for much better performances and is general enough to be easily adapted to future High Energy Physics (HEP) experiments and applications outside HEP.
ISSN:1742-6596
1742-6588
1742-6596
DOI:10.1088/1742-6596/219/2/022001