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The Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite (AXIS) is a NASA probe class mission concept designed to deliver arcsecond resolution with an effective area ten times that of Chandra (at launch). The AXIS focal plane features an MIT Lincoln Laboratory…

We present the development of the FBCM23 ASIC designed for the Phase-II upgrade of the Fast Beam Condition Monitoring (FBCM) system built at the CMS experiment which will replace the present luminometer based on the BCM1F ASIC [1]. The FBCM…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-29 Jan Kaplon , Grzegorz Wegrzyn , Konstantin Shibin , Marnix Barendregt

This paper presents the design and characterisation of a front-end prototype ASIC for the ATLAS High Granularity Timing Detector, which is planned for the High-Luminosity phase of the LHC. This prototype, called ALTIROC1, consists of a…

The readout electronics upgrade for the ATLAS Liquid Argon Calorimeters at the CERN Large Hadron Collider requires a radiation-hard ADC. The design of a radiation-hard dual-channel 12-bit 40 MS/s pipeline ADC for this use is presented. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-06-07 Jayanth Kuppambatti , Jaroslav Ban , Timothy Andeen , Rex Brown , Ryne Carbone , Peter Kinget , Gustaaf Brooilmans , William Sippach

A new TDC chip has been developed for the COMPASS experiment at CERN. The resulting ASIC offers an unprecedented degree of flexibility and functionality. Its capability to handle highest hit and trigger input rates as well as its low power…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Braun , H. Fischer , J. Franz , A. Grunemaier , F. H. Heinsius , L. Hennig , K. Konigsmann , M. Niebuhr , M. Schierloh , T. Schmidt , H. Schmitt , H. J. Urban

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…

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

Detectors at future high energy colliders will face enormous technical challenges. Disentangling the unprecedented numbers of particles expected in each event will require highly granular silicon pixel detectors with billions of readout…

This paper describes a pipelined analog-to-digital converter (ADC) employing a power and area efficient architecture. The adjacent stages of a pipeline share operational amplifiers. In order to keep accuracy of the amplifiers in the first…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-10-11 Yuri Bocharov , Vladimir Butuzov , Dmitry Osipov

Micromegas detector is a gas detector with parallel plate structure, and it consists of a conversion gap in which radiations liberate ionization electrons and a thin amplification gap. The signal of the micromegas detector consists of two…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-06-19 Shuang. Zhou , Shengquan. Liu , Peng. Miao , Xinxin. Wang , Feng. Li , Ge. Jin , Zhilei. Zhang , Tianru. Geng

An analog integrated circuit has been designed, in a BiCMOS 0.8 micron technology, for the feasability study of the signal processing of the AMS RICH photomultiplier tubes. This low power, three channel gated integrator includes its own…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-26 A. Barrau , L. Gallin-Martel , J. Pouxe , O. Rossetto

Three generations of full-custom analog integrated circuits designed for low-power, high-speed sampling of Radio-Frequency (RF) transients in excess of the Nyquist minimum have been developed. These 0.25$\mu m$ CMOS devices are denoted the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-11-26 G. S. Varner , L. L. Ruckman , J. W. Nam , R. J. Nichol , J. Cao , P. W. Gorham , M. Wilcox

The upgrade of the ATLAS muon spectrometer for high-luminosity LHC requires new trigger and readout electronics for the various elements of the detector. We present the design of a time-to-digital converter (TDC) ASIC prototype for the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-03-14 Jinhong Wang , Yu Liang , Xiong Xiao , Qi An , John W. Chapman , Tiesheng Dai , Bing Zhou , Junjie Zhu , Lei Zhao

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 SALSA chip is a future readout ASIC foreseen for the MPGD detectors, developed in the framework of the EIC collider project, to equip the MPGD trackers of the EPIC experiment. It is designed to be versatile, to be adapted to other…

This paper presents a novel data detector ASIC for massive multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) wireless systems. The ASIC implements a modified version of the large-MIMO approximate message passing algorithm (LAMA), which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-12 Charles Jeon , Oscar Castañeda , Christoph Studer

In MicroPattern Gas Detectors (MPGD) when the pixel size is below 100 micron and the number of pixels is large (above 1000) it is virtually impossible to use the conventional PCB read-out approach to bring the signal charge from the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-26 R. Bellazzini , F. Angelini , L. Baldini , F. Bitti , A. Brez , L. Latronico , M. M. Massai , M. Minuti , N. Omodei , M. Razzano , C. Sgro , G. Spandre , E. Costa , P. Soffitta

This manuscript describes a radiation-hardened current-mode delta-sigma ADC fabricated in a standard 130 nm CMOS technology and qualified for total ionizing doses up to 100 Mrad. The operational signal range achieved with a 100 s…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-03-05 Luca Giangrande

This paper proposes and evaluates a novel architecture for a low-power Time-to-Digital Converter with high resolution, optimized for both integration in multichannel chips and high rate operation (40 Mconversion/s/channel). This converter…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-02 Florent Bouyjou

The impressive progress in data rate capabilities, pattern recognition, and spatial resolution of current detectors in experimental particle physics has been possible thanks to the availability of sophisticated analog processors combined…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-04-18 M. Artuso , C. Grace , T. Heim , A. Dragone , R. Herbst , L. Rota , G. Carini , G. Deptuch , M. Newcomer , K. Flood