Bibcode
Benton, S. J.; Ade, P. A.; Amiri, M.; Angilè, F. E.; Bock, J. J.; Bond, J. R.; Bryan, S. A.; Chiang, H. C.; Contaldi, C. R.; Crill, B. P.; Devlin, M. J.; Dober, B.; Doré, O. P.; Farhang, M.; Filippini, J. P.; Fissel, L. M.; Fraisse, A. A.; Fukui, Y.; Galitzki, N.; Gambrel, A. E.; Gandilo, N. N.; Golwala, S. R.; Gudmundsson, J. E.; Halpern, M.; Hasselfield, M.; Hilton, G. C.; Holmes, W. A.; Hristov, V. V.; Irwin, K. D.; Jones, W. C.; Kermish, Z. D.; Klein, J.; Korotkov, A. L.; Kuo, C. L.; MacTavish, C. J.; Mason, P. V.; Matthews, T. G.; Megerian, K. G.; Moncelsi, L.; Morford, T. A.; Mroczkowski, T. K.; Nagy, J. M.; Netterfield, C. B.; Novak, G.; Nutter, D.; O'Brient, R.; Ogburn, R. W.; Pascale, E.; Poidevin, F.; Rahlin, A. S.; Reintsema, C. D.; Ruhl, J. E.; Runyan, M. C.; Savini, G.; Scott, D.; Shariff, J. A.; Soler, J. D.; Thomas, N. E.; Trangsrud, A.; Truch, M. D.; Tucker, C. E.; Tucker, G. S.; Tucker, R. S.; Turner, A. D.; Ward-Thompson, D.; Weber, A. C.; Wiebe, D. V.; Young, E. Y.
Referencia bibliográfica
Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 9145, id. 91450V 11 pp. (2014).
Fecha de publicación:
7
2014
Número de citas
6
Número de citas referidas
3
Descripción
We present the second generation BLASTbus electronics. The primary
purposes of this system are detector readout, attitude control, and
cryogenic housekeeping, for balloon-borne telescopes. Readout of neutron
transmutation doped germanium (NTD-Ge) bolometers requires low noise and
parallel acquisition of hundreds of analog signals. Controlling a
telescope's attitude requires the capability to interface to a wide
variety of sensors and motors, and to use them together in a fast,
closed loop. To achieve these different goals, the BLASTbus system
employs a flexible motherboard-daughterboard architecture. The
programmable motherboard features a digital signal processor (DSP) and
field-programmable gate array (FPGA), as well as slots for three
daughterboards. The daughterboards provide the interface to the outside
world, with versions for analog to digital conversion, and optoisolated
digital input/output. With the versatility afforded by this design, the
BLASTbus also finds uses in cryogenic, thermometry, and power systems.
For accurate timing control to tie everything together, the system
operates in a fully synchronous manner. BLASTbus electronics have been
successfully deployed to the South Pole, and own on stratospheric
balloons.