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Jungfraujoch : hardware-accelerated data-acquisition system for kilohertz pixel-array X-ray detectors

Leonarski, Filip ; Brückner, Martin ; Lopez-Cuenca, Carlos ; Mozzanica, Aldo ; Stadler, Hans Christian ; Matěj, Zdeněk LU orcid ; Castellane, Alexandre ; Mesnet, Bruno ; Wojdyla, Justyna Aleksandra and Schmitt, Bernd , et al. (2023) In Journal of Synchrotron Radiation 30. p.227-234
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... (More)

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.

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data acquisition, field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), macromolecular crystallography, X-ray detectors, X-ray image acquisition
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Journal of Synchrotron Radiation
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30
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8 pages
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International Union of Crystallography
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1600-5775
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10.1107/S1600577522010268
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  author       = {{Leonarski, Filip and Brückner, Martin and Lopez-Cuenca, Carlos and Mozzanica, Aldo and Stadler, Hans Christian and Matěj, Zdeněk and Castellane, Alexandre and Mesnet, Bruno and Wojdyla, Justyna Aleksandra and Schmitt, Bernd and Wang, Meitian}},
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  keywords     = {{data acquisition; field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs); macromolecular crystallography; X-ray detectors; X-ray image acquisition}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  month        = {{01}},
  pages        = {{227--234}},
  publisher    = {{International Union of Crystallography}},
  series       = {{Journal of Synchrotron Radiation}},
  title        = {{Jungfraujoch : hardware-accelerated data-acquisition system for kilohertz pixel-array X-ray detectors}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1107/S1600577522010268}},
  doi          = {{10.1107/S1600577522010268}},
  volume       = {{30}},
  year         = {{2023}},
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