XIA LLC invents, develops and markets advanced digital data acquisition and processing systems for x-ray, gamma-ray, and other radiation detector applications in university research, national laboratories and industry. Our instruments fall into three broad categories – supporting x-ray detectors, gamma-ray detectors, and ultra-low background counting.
Our DXP x-ray detector electronics span the spectrum from low cost OEM cards for handheld and benchtop applications to PXI and standalone modules for ultra high rate counting at synchrotrons and elsewhere. Our gamma-ray detector electronics cover an ever wider range of (typically) research applications from pulse shape analysis using high speed scintillators to very high energy resolution HPGe spectrometry, to coincidence data collection in large nuclear physics detector arrays. Our ultra-low background instrumentation combines anticoincidence and pulse shape analysis to reliably count samples producing only a few counts per day.
XIA responded by developing an interface accessory which solves the customer’s problem and provides real-time access to Pixie-16 logic signals in a flexible manner. Code-named MZTIO (MicroZed-based Trigger I/O), this accessory is, in essence, a ‘breakout’ board for the Pixie-16 PXI chassis backplane. Clock and logic signals generated by the customer’s Pixie-16 system are routed to a Zynq SoC supporting 1588 PTP time synchronization, where they can be combined in a user-programmable fashion via open source firmware/software, before being output to LVDS connections on the front panel. Alternate output connections can be accommodated via custom I/O daughtercards.
