Digital Rate Regulation at the Cooler Synchrotron COSY

Particle accelerators are an important tool in modern particle physics. Accelerators can be used in different collision experiments to gain deeper knowledge about the behaviour of elementary particles. Operating such accelerators demands a wide range of precise data processing systems. One of the tasks in a collision experiment is the target rate regulation, responsible for regulating the particle rate hitting a fixed target. At the Cooler Synchrotron in Jülich the current device responsible for this is the so-called "Schneiderbox", an analogue counting and regulating device. The task of this bachelor thesis is to replace the analogue "Schneiderbox" with a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). Using Hardware Description Language (HDL), the rate regulation is digitized, which makes it possible to access the regulation system remotely and makes automatic rate regulation possible