7.5 Outlook
At the time of writing the design of the next version, DSC V5, is under way.
The improvements concern the simplification of the electronics on the
motherboard. The number of connections from the board to the chip are reduced
from 26 to 17. This allows for a motherboard hosting 32 DSC channels, which
will reduce the overall costs by a factor of about 2. The main features of the
new DSC are:
* Fully integrated zero suppression mechanism with Enable/Disable feature.
* Discharge switch for the sampling capacitors.
* Analog chip-identification mechanism for the zero suppression.
* Improved output amplification circuit.
Due to the simplifications on the motherboard the rms noise will be reduced.
The read-out speed and A/D conversion is increased to 5 MHz.