**The Use of FPGA in Drift Chambers for High Energy Physics Experiments**

Gianluigi Chiarello, Claudio Chiri, Giuseppe Cocciolo, Alessandro Corvaglia, Francesco Grancagnolo, Marco Panareo, Aurora Pepino and Giovanni Francesco Tassielli

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http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/66853

#### **Abstract**

In this chapter, we describe the design of a field programmable gate array (FPGA) board capable of acquiring the information coming from a fast digitization of the signals gen‐ erated in a drift chambers. The digitized signals are analyzed using an *ad hoc* real‐time algorithm implemented in the FPGA in order to reduce the data throughput coming from the particle detector.

**Keywords:** drift chamber, FPGA, CluTim, impact parameter
