Real Time Embedded Systems (RTES)

The specific application that will drive this research and provide a test platform for it is the trigger and data acquisition system for BTeV, an accelerator-based High Energy Physics experiment to study matter-antimatter asymmetries in decays of particles containing the bottom quark.

There has been significant recent research in this area, but it has mostly addressed smaller scale systems and portions of the full problem. We plan to extend and integrate this research to develop solutions and methodologies that scale to the size and complexity of the BTeV trigger and data acquisition system.

The researchers consist of Computer Scientists who are experts in embedded systems, real-time systems, and fault tolerant computing, and the leaders of the BTeV trigger and data acquisition system development team. As a part of its R&D program, the team will implement a series of systems of increasing size and complexity, using the experience gained at each stage to refine and improve its tools and methodologies.

The BTeV trigger system hardware, which will be provided by BTeV, supplies two extremely important ingredients: (1) a large test-bed that represents millions of dollars worth of equipment and (2) a highly motivated set of users who will test the methodologies and tools developed in an extremely harsh environment over an extended period of time.

During this project, the research results will be carried into the high school system through projects (Quarknet, Link-to-Learn, and College in High School) which enhance existing infrastructure for attracting students into science and engineering disciplines.

• Research Description - submitted to NSF ITR Program (18 pages, PDF format)
• BTeV Trigger Animation

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