In order to achieve the driver function for several types of scientific CCD detector from E2V Co Ltd, and decreasing the size of electronics of CCD detector system, an Application-specified Integrated Circuit (ASIC) was designed. It provides multi-channel clocks and bias voltage for CCD driver. In the ASIC, the clock drivers are made of a clock switch circuit and high voltage amplifier. Two 8-bit current-steering DACs are used to adjust the driver capability and high-level voltage of clocks. The bias drivers are generated by 8-bit current-steering DACs and off-chip operation amplifiers. The Global Foundry 180 nm BCDlite technology is selected to implement this design. The first version of design has been finished and the tests have been done.
@article{arxiv.1805.12211,
title = {A Driver ASIC for Scientific CCD Detectors Using 180nm Technology},
author = {Jie Gao and Dong-xu Yang and Yi Feng and Guang-yu Zhang and Wen-qing Qu and Jian-min Wang and Hong-fei Zhang and Jian Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.12211},
year = {2018}
}