@misc{10481/68357,
year = {2021},
month = {1},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10481/68357},
abstract = {The KM3NeT infrastructure consists of two deep-sea neutrino telescopes being deployed in the Mediterranean Sea. The telescopes will detect extraterrestrial and atmospheric neutrinos by means of the incident photons induced by the passage of relativistic charged particles through the seawater as a consequence of a neutrino interaction. The telescopes are configured in a three-dimensional grid of digital optical modules, each hosting 31 photomultipliers. The photomultiplier signals produced by the incident Cherenkov photons are converted into digital information consisting of the integrated pulse duration and the time at which it surpasses a chosen threshold. The digitization is done by means of time to digital converters (TDCs) embedded in the field programmable gate array of the central logic board. Subsequently, a state machine formats the acquired data for its transmission to shore. We present the architecture and performance of the front-end firmware consisting of the TDCs and the state machine.},
organization = {French National Research Agency (ANR)

ANR-15-CE31-0020},
organization = {Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)},
organization = {Commission Europeenne (FEDER fund), France},
organization = {Commission Europeenne (Marie Curie Program), France},
organization = {Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), France},
organization = {LabEx UnivEarthS, France 

ANR-10-LABX-0023
ANR-18-IDEX-0001},
organization = {Paris Ile-de-France Region, France},
organization = {Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation of Georgia (SRNSFG), Georgia 

FR-18-1268},
organization = {German Research Foundation (DFG)},
organization = {Greek Ministry of Development-GSRT},
organization = {Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)

NAT-NET 2017W4HA7S},
organization = {Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (MIUR)

NAT-NET 2017W4HA7S},
organization = {PRIN 2017 program Italy 

NAT-NET 2017W4HA7S},
organization = {Ministry of Higher Education Scientific Research and Professional Training, ICTP, Morocco 

AF-13},
organization = {Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)

Netherlands Government},
organization = {National Science Centre, Poland

2015/18/E/ST2/00758},
organization = {National Authority for Scientific Research (ANCS), Romania},
organization = {Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovacion, Investigacion y Universidades (MCIU): Programa Estatal de Generacion de Conocimiento (MCIU/FEDER), Spain 

PGC2018-096663-B-C41
PGC2018-096663-A-C42
PGC2018-096663-B-C43
PGC2018-096663-B-C44},
organization = {Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence and MultiDark Consolider (MCIU), Spain},
organization = {Junta de Andalucia

European Commission

SOMM17/6104/UGR},
organization = {Generalitat Valenciana: Grisolia program, Spain 

GRISOLIA/2018/119},
organization = {Generalitat Valenciana: GenT program, Spain 

CIDEGENT/2018/034},
organization = {La Caixa Foundation

LCF/BQ/IN17/11620019},
organization = {EU: MSC program, Spain 

713673},
publisher = {SPIE - International Society for Optical Engineering},
keywords = {Neutrino telescope},
keywords = {Acquisition firmware},
keywords = {Time to digital converters},
keywords = {KM3NeT},
title = {Architecture and performance of the KM3NeT front-end firmware},
doi = {10.1117/1.JATIS.7.1.016001},
author = {Aiello, Sebastiano and Anguita López, Mancia and Díaz García, Antonio Francisco and López Coto, Daniel and Navas Concha, Sergio and Tenllado, Enrique},
}