학술논문

Jungfraujoch: hardware-accelerated data-acquisition system for kilohertz pixel-array X-ray detectors
Document Type
article
Source
Journal of Synchrotron Radiation, Vol 30, Iss 1, Pp 227-234 (2023)
Subject
x-ray detectors
macromolecular crystallography
x-ray image acquisition
data acquisition
field-programmable gate arrays (fpgas)
Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity
QC770-798
Crystallography
QD901-999
Language
English
ISSN
1600-5775
16005775
Abstract
The JUNGFRAU 4-megapixel (4M) charge-integrating pixel-array detector, when operated at a full 2 kHz frame rate, streams data at a rate of 17 GB s−1. To operate this detector for macromolecular crystallography beamlines, a data-acquisition system called Jungfraujoch was developed. The system, running on a single server with field-programmable gate arrays and general-purpose graphics processing units, is capable of handling data produced by the JUNGFRAU 4M detector, including conversion of raw pixel readout to photon counts, compression and on-the-fly spot finding. It was also demonstrated that 30 GB s−1 can be handled in performance tests, indicating that the operation of even larger and faster detectors will be achievable in the future. The source code is available from a public repository.