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ATLAS Note
Report number	ATL-DAQ-PROC-2013-036
Title	Design of a Hardware Track Finder (Fast Tracker) for the ATLAS Trigger
Author(s)	Annovi, A (Frascati) ; Beretta, M (Frascati) ; Bogdan, M (Chicago U.) ; Cipriani, R (Pisa U.) ; Citraro, S (Pisa U.) ; Faulkner, G (California State U.) ; Gatta, M (Frascati) ; Giannetti, P (INFN, Pisa) ; Lanza, A (INFN, Pavia) ; Luciano, P (Pisa U.) ; Luongo, C (INFN, Pisa) ; Magalotti, D (Perugia U.) ; Nikolaidis, S (Aristotle U., Thessaloniki) ; Piendibene, M (INFN, Pisa) ; Tompkins, L (Chicago U.) ; Shochet, M (Chicago U.) ; Sotiropoulou, C L (Aristotle U., Thessaloniki) ; Volpi, G (Frascati)
Corporate Author(s)	The ATLAS collaboration
Publication	2013
Imprint	09 Nov 2013
Number of pages	8
In:	JINST 9 (2013) C01045
In:	Topical Workshop on Electronics for Particle Physics, Perugia, Italy, 23 - 27 Sep 2013, pp.C01045
DOI	10.1088/1748-0221/9/01/C01045
Subject category	Detectors and Experimental Techniques
Accelerator/Facility, Experiment	CERN LHC ; ATLAS
Free keywords	ATLAS ; Trigger ; Tracking ; Associative Memory ; FPGA ; FTK
Abstract	The ATLAS Fast TracKer is a custom electronics system that will operate at the full Level-1 accept rate, 100 kHz, to provide high quality tracks as input to the Level-2 trigger. The event reconstruction is performed in hardware, thanks to the massive parallelism of associative memories (AM) and FPGAs. We present the advantages for the physics goals of the ATLAS experiment and the recent results on the design, technological advancements and testing of some of the core components used in the processor.
Copyright/License	Preprint: (License: CC-BY-4.0)

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