* All types of noise reduction:
    - Zero suppression via thresholds
    - Common mode noise subtraction
    - Amplitude reconstruction (MIPS vs. reaction/delta electrons)
  * Signal time reconstruction
  * Clusterisation algorithms (1D and 2D, maybe 3D for TPCs...)
  * Pre-pattern recognition with limited scope 
    (e.g. ring matching for RICHes, tracklets in close chambers)

1. Pulse detection / Zero suppression
   The analog detector signals are continuously sampled by ADCs and the sampled data are processed
   in FPGAs. To distinguish a signal pulse from background noise two summation windows are used, which 
   are compared with a threshold level. The size of the windows is selected in a way that the 
   uncorrelated noise should cancel out.
   If there is no signal pulse, the sum values of both windows are nearly equal. If a pulse enters the
   first window, the sum starts to rise and a trigger is generated if the sum is bigger than the 
   second window sum plus a threshold.
   The value of the second window can also be used for pedestal correction of the sampled data.

2. Time reconstruction
   After the pulse detection some pedestal corrected sample points are processed by the time reconstruction
   algorithm. Until now there are two algorithms implemented:

   - SAD Fit
   In this iterative algorithm the detected rising edge of the signal is compared with a previously
   generated set of data points with different phase shifts to the sample clock. Therefore an error
   value is calculated for each data set which indicates its difference to the actual sampled data.
   The minimum error value identifies the phase shift of the sampled data. The pulse time is then
   expressed by: pulse detection clock count + phase shift.

   - Mean Weighted Sum of Derivation
   This algorithm is also operating on the rising edge of the detected signal pulse. At the beginning,
   the first derivation of the data stream is calculated, followed by a search for the maximum value.
   This gives the position of the turning point of the rising signal edge. Supposed the signal is almost
   symmetric, the maximum and the adjacent values carry information about the phase shift of the signal.
   Therefore, a sum is calculated from these values which are weighted with a time index and a binning value.
   After the summation it is divided by the sum of sample values which results in a mean time value for 
   the rising edge. This value is then corrected to get again the time information in the format: clock
   count + phase shift.

   The timing resolutions are for both algorithms around 5 ns (SNR 10) and can reach up to 1 ns and shorter
   for good SNR values (> 50).