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[Takao Sakaguchi <takao AT bnl.gov>]

Dear All,

 Tom, Klaus and I had a discussion on the readout pad
configuration for the TPC on Wednesday, and converged into

a sort of realistic configuration, which nicely matches the

FEE card configuration.

 I here tried to illustrate in a drawing with some explanation

and a channel count as attached. Currently, if we fully

instrument pads down to 20cm for both sides, the number

of readout pads will be ~150K and the number of FEE cards

will be 600. which is ~50% more than the reported values.

Given the good price of DAM and EBDC modules, we may

be able to accommodate this channel increase.

 Here is some detail info in the pad configuration.

 Right now, our engineers designed the pad plane support

structure in the unit of 30 degree in phi and 20cm radius

width. So, we tried to place pads in multiple of of the number

of channels of a FEE card, which is 256 channels.

 In this manner, we set the radius length of the pads as

12.5mm so that the 16 pads will be in line in radius direction

in 20cm radius width.

 In phi direction, the number of pads will also be multiple of

16, so that the number of pads in a give sector will be

multiple of 256. The pad size will change as a function of

radius in a given sector.

 In this configuration, we place 5, 8 and 12 FEE cards in a

given sector for 20<r<40, 40<r<60, and 60<r<78cm radius

regions, respectively.

 The most outer ~20cm ring will be 18cm indeed, so, the

each FEE will handle 14*16 instead of 16*16 channels.

We could work out to minimize the free channel of the

FEE card. 

 I'll work on the configuration of the FEE card for this case

as well as the expected data rate from each FEE card soon.

 Have a happy holiday!

Takao

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Takao Sakaguchi
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Physics Department, Bldg. 510C
takao AT bnl.gov
Office: 1-631-344-3345

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