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Development of a Digital Signal Processing System for the X-Ray Microcalorimeter Onboard ASTRO-H (II)

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The Pulse Shape Processor is a digital signal processing electronics for the microcalorimeter instrument onboard ASTRO-H. Receiving digitized waveform (14 bit, 12.5 kHz sample) from 2×18 channels, two identical units of PSP-A and -B trigger X-ray events, assign five kinds of event grade, and perform optimal filtering to measure energy deposit on the 6×6 microcalorimeter pixels. One unit of PSP is composed of one FPGA board and two CPU boards. This paper describes the event processing algorithm to fulfill requirements for the signal processing, and task sharing between FPGA and CPU.

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  1. Saitama University, 255 Shimo-Okubo, Sakura, Saitama, 338-8570, Japan

    Y. Shimoda, H. Seta, M. S. Tashiro, Y. Terada, T. Yasuda & S. Takeda

  2. Tokyo Metropolitan University, 1-1 Minami-Osawa, Hachioji, Tokyo, 192-0397, Japan

    Y. Ishisaki & Y. Hiyama

  3. ISAS/JAXA, 3-1-1 Yoshinodai, Chuo, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, 229-8510, Japan

    M. Tsujimoto & K. Mitsuda

  4. Nagoya Guidance & Propulsion Systems Works, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd (MHI), 1200 Higashitanaka, Komaki, Aichi, 485-8561, Japan

    K. Masukawa & K. Matsuda

  5. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Greenbelt, MD, 20771, USA

    K. R. Boyce

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Shimoda, Y., Seta, H., Tashiro, M.S. et al. Development of a Digital Signal Processing System for the X-Ray Microcalorimeter Onboard ASTRO-H (II). J Low Temp Phys 167, 575–581 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-012-0483-0

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