The International School of Trigger and Data Acquisition (ISOTDAQ) is a series of 9 days schools on Trigger and Data Acquisition systems, organised each year. The school is held in English with a maximum of 56 students and it is distributed as 50% lectures and 50% laboratory exercises.

The target audience is the engineering (EE, CmpE, IT) and physics (accelerator, particle, medical) MS and PhD students with a professional interest in trigger and data acquisition.

The basics of DAQ programming concepts (e.g. threaded programming, data storage, networking, IO programming), Hardware bus systems (VMEbus, PCI, MicroTCA, SoC), Trigger logic and Hardware (NIM), PC based readout systems and trigger design will be covered together with reviews of modern TDAQ systems from LHC and fixed target experiments.

This School is an extraordinary joint effort between different people, institutes and industry. Each stakeholder contributes to the success of ISOTDAQ through its expertise, know-how, financial support and, last but not least, a contagious enthusiasm! 

Goals

‣ Introduce the basics of Trigger and Data acquisition by covering:

• Trigger hardware and software
• Data acquisition hardware and software
• Data transfer technologies
• Show the TDAQ examples from simple and large experiments

‣ Expose the participants to a maximum variety of topics

‣ Accompany the lectures by hands on training sessions.