Abbreviations

SB: Support Board

DB: Detector Board

MB: Multiplexer Board (also called high-speed data transceiver board)

CI: Coincidence Interface Board

CU: Coincidence Unit

DU: Detector Unit

CDU: Coincidence/Detector Unit

CUC: Coincidence Unit Controller

DUC: Detector Unit Controller

CDUC: Coincidence/Detector Unit Controller

FPGA: Field-programmable gate array

NIOS II: A 32-bit embedded-processor architecture designed specifically for the Altera FPGAs

VHDL: VHSIC hardware description language

CRC: Cyclic redundancy check

FSM: Finite State Machine