PARISROC is a complete read out chip, in AMS SiGe 0.35 !m technology, for photomultipliers array. It allows triggerless acquisition for next generation neutrino experiments and it belongs to an R&D program funded by the French national agency for research (ANR) called PMm2: ?Innovative electronics for photodetectors array used in High Energy Physics and Astroparticles? (ref.ANR-06-BLAN-0186). The ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) integrates 16 independent and auto triggered channels with variable gain and provides charge and time measurement by a Wilkinson ADC (Analog to Digital Converter) and a 24-bit Counter. The charge measurement should be performed from 1 up to 300 photo- electrons (p.e.) with a good linearity. The time measurement allowed to a coarse time with a 24-bit counter at 10 MHz and a fine time on a 100ns ramp to achieve a resolution of 1 ns. The ASIC sends out only the relevant data through network cables to the central data storage. This paper describes the front-end electronics ASIC called PARISROC.
@article{arxiv.0912.1269,
title = {PARISROC, a Photomultiplier Array Integrated Read Out Chip},
author = {S. Conforti Di Lorenzo and J. E. Campagne and F. Dulucq and C. De La Taille and G. Martin-Chassard and M. El Berni and W. Wei},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0912.1269},
year = {2010}
}
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IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium an Medical Imaging Conference (2009 NSS/MIC)