Prototype VME & CAMAC form factor Timestamping module development for Nuclear Physics Experiment

The modern nuclear physics experiments employ large detector arrays for measurement of different radiations, like charge particle, Gamma, Neutron etc. Heterogeneous detector systems may have different response time and different front end processing. The trigger rate of the individual detector system, as well as the width of the acquisition window may vary accordingly. It may not be possible to generate a common GATE signal to acquire correlated events, without introducing significant dead time. It is proposed to run multiple DAQ (Data Acquisition System) independently on its own trigger and mark the data with high-resolution timestamps. Timestamp may be the absolute time or a local counter value. The offline event builder generates the global correlated events by matching the timestamp values.