Circuitry for event-driven data acquisition

An event-driven data acquisition system comprising:

• at least one detector;
• and
• an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) communicatively coupled to the detector, the ASIC being configured to:
• determining a mode of operation by at least analyzing received external reference clock frequency data to determine whether the digital signal is to be processed through a digital comparator to be compared against the threshold or to be processed through a storage and assembly unit for a high-frequency raw data direct output, and
• receive an analog signal in response to detection of an event,
• generate digital data based on the analog signal,
• responsive to the determining of the mode of operation where the digital data is to be compared against the threshold signal value,
• compare the digital data against a threshold signal value,
• responsive to the digital data exceeding the threshold signal value to confirm the event, detect a peak value of the digital signal and assign a time stamp to the digital data,
• generate event data at least based on the time stamp and the peak value, and
• transmit the event data for storage.