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A front end ASIC has been designed to equip the {\mu}TPC prototype developed for the MIMAC project, which requires 3D reconstruction of low energy particle tracks in order to perform directional detection of galactic Dark Matter. Each ASIC…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-22 J. P. Richer , O. Bourrion , G. Bosson , O. Guillaudin , F. Mayet , D. Santos

The present article introduces a novel ASIC architecture, designed in the context of the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter upgrade program for the High-Luminosity phase of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. The architecture is based on…

Time and charge measurements over a large dynamic range from 1 Photo Electron (P.E.) to 4000 P.E. are required for the Water Cherenkov Detector Array (WCDA), which is one of the key components in the Large High Altitude Air Shower…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-09-26 Yu Liang , Lei Zhao , Yuxiang Guo , Jiajun Qin , Yunfang Yang , Boyu Cheng , Shubin Liu , Qi An

A front end ASIC (BiCMOS-SiGe 0.35 \mum) has been developed within the framework of the MIMAC detector project, which aims at directional detection of non-baryonic Dark Matter. This search strategy requires 3D reconstruction of low energy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 J. P. Richer , G. Bosson , O. Bourrion , C. Grignon , O. Guillaudin , F. Mayet , D. Santos

Samples of the monolithic silicon pixel ASIC prototype produced in 2022 within the framework of the Horizon 2020 MONOLITH ERC Advanced project were irradiated with 70 MeV protons up to a fluence of 1 x 1016 neq/cm2, and then tested using a…

High channel density and space restrictions required that the front end electronics integrated into the active elements of calorimeter. For that purpose novel readout chain base on Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) designed for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-10-19 Elmaddin Guliyev

A monolithic silicon pixel ASIC prototype, produced in 2024 as part of the Horizon 2020 MONOLITH ERC Advanced project, was tested with a 120 GeV/c pion beam. The ASIC features a matrix of hexagonal pixels with a 100 \mu m pitch, read by…

We present the first characterization results of Timespot1, an ASIC designed in CMOS 28 nm technology, featuring a $32 \times 32$ pixel matrix with a pitch of $55 ~ \mu m$. Timespot1 is the first small-size prototype, conceived to readout…

1 ps timing resolution is the entry point to signature based searches relying on secondary/tertiary vertices and particle identification. We describe a preliminary design for PSEC5, an 8-channel 40 GS/s waveform-sampling ASIC in the TSMC 65…

The paper presents the design and measurement results of a transient waveform recording ASIC based on the Switched Capacitor Array (SCA) architecture. This 0.18 {\mu}m CMOS prototype device contains two channels and each channel employs a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-07-09 Jiajun Qin , Lei Zhao , Boyu Cheng , Han Chen , Yuxiang Guo , Shubin Liu , Qi An

Highly integrated multichannel readout electronics is crucial in contemporary particle physics experiments. A novel silicon photomultiplier readout system based on the VMM3a ASIC was developed, for the first time exploiting this chip for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-06-19 I. Bearden , V. Buchakchiev , A. Buhl , L. Dufke , T. Isidori , S. Jia , V. Kozhuharov , C. Loizides , H. Muller , D. Pfeiffer , M. Rauch , A. Rusu , R. Simeonov

The PSEC4 custom integrated circuit was designed for the recording of fast waveforms for use in large-area time-of-flight detector systems. The ASIC has been fabricated using the IBM-8RF 0.13 micron CMOS process. On each of 6 analog…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-17 E. Oberla , J. -F. Genat , H. Grabas , H. Frisch , K. Nishimura , G. Varner

We present our latest ASIC, which is used for the readout of Cadmium Telluride double-sided strip detectors (CdTe DSDs) and high spectroscopic imaging. It is implemented in a 0.35 um CMOS technology (X-Fab XH035), consists of 64 readout…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-09-02 Tenyo Kawamura , Tadashi Orita , Shin'ichiro Takeda , Shin Watanabe , Hirokazu Ikeda , Tadayuki Takahashi

The \emph{MIDNA} application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) is a skipper-CCD readout chip fabricated in a 65 nm LP-CMOS process that is capable of working at cryogenic temperatures. The chip integrates four front-end channels that…

Large-area silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) are desired in many applications where large surfaces have to be covered. For instance, a large area SiPM has been developed by Hamamatsu Photonics in collaboration with the University of Geneva,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 Nicolas De Angelis , David Gascón , Sergio Gómez , Matthieu Heller , Teresa Montaruli , Andrii Nagai

Modern X-ray detector systems urgently require compact, efficient, and fast data compression schemes to handle the transmission of big data from pixel arrays, enabling frame rates in the MHz regime. In this work, a data compression ASIC…

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…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-06-04 Jie Gao , Dong-xu Yang , Yi Feng , Guang-yu Zhang , Wen-qing Qu , Jian-min Wang , Hong-fei Zhang , Jian Wang

The purpose of this project was to design and implement a pipeline Analog-to-Digital Converter using 0.35um CMOS technology. Initial requirements of a 25-MHz conversion rate and 8-bits of resolution where the only given ones. Although…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2012-07-25 Moslem Rashidi , Mikael Hogrud , Donatas Siaudinis , Affaq Qamar , Imran Khan

Low-power event-based analog front-ends (AFE) are a crucial component required to build efficient end-to-end neuromorphic processing systems for edge computing. Although several neuromorphic chips have been developed for implementing…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Shyam Narayanan , Matteo Cartiglia , Arianna Rubino , Charles Lego , Charlotte Frenkel , Giacomo Indiveri

A new amplifier-shaper-discriminator (ASD) chip was designed and manufactured for the Micro Pixel Chamber ($\mu$-PIC). The design of this ASD IC is based on the ASD IC (TGC-ASD) for the Thin Gap Chamber in the LHC Atlas Experiment. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Orito , O. Sasaki , H. Kubo , K. Miuchi , T. Nagayoshi , Y. Okada , A. Takada , A. Takeda , T. Tanimori , M. Ueno