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We present the architecture, design and first test results of SPIDER, the first prototype of a TSMC CMOS 65 nm ASIC designed for the time measurement path of LHCb Electromagnetic Calorimeter after LS4 Upgrade. The main requirements for the…

We report on a large active area (15x15mm2), high channel density (470 pixels/mm2), self-triggering CMOS analog chip that we have developed as pixelized charge collecting electrode of a Micropattern Gas Detector. This device, which…

A monolithic silicon pixel detector prototype has been produced in the SiGe BiCMOS SG13G2 130 nm node technology by IHP. The ASIC contains a matrix of hexagonal pixels with pitch of approximately 100 $\mu$m. Three analog pixels were…

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

Small-diameter Drift Tube (sMDT) detectors with 15 mm tube diameter have proven to be excellent candidates for precision muon tracking detectors in experiments at future hadron colliders like HL-LHC and FCC-hh where unprecedentedly high…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-12-13 G. H. Eberwein , O. Kortner , H. Kroha , E. Voevodina

We present the optimization and performance characterization of the second-generation Fermilab Constant Fraction Discriminator ASIC (FCFD), designed for the readout of AC-coupled low-gain avalanche detector (LGAD) strip-sensors. The FCFD is…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-12-24 Artur Apresyan , Shuoxing Wu , Si Xie , Cristián Peña , Tom Zimmerman , Sergey Los , Todd Zenger , Zhenyu Ye

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

Multiple-Amplifier Sensing (MAS) charge-coupled devices (CCDs) have recently been shown to be promising silicon detectors that meet noise sensitivity requirements for next generation Stage-5 spectroscopic surveys and potentially, future…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-30 Kenneth W. Lin , Abby Bault , Armin Karcher , Julien Guy , Stephen E. Holland , William F. Kolbe , Peter E. Nugent

This paper presents the first sub-10$\mu$W, sub-0.1% total harmonic distortion (THD) sinusoidal current generator (CG) integrated circuit (IC) that is capable of 20kHz output for the bio-impedance (Bio-Z) sensing applications. To benefit…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Kwantae Kim , Changhyeon Kim , Sungpill Choi , Hoi-Jun Yoo

This paper presents the design, implementation, and performance evaluation of LUCAS, a low-power, ultra-low jitter ASIC optimized for SiPM readout in Time-of-Flight Computed Tomography (ToF-CT) applications. Leveraging a novel preamplifier…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-06 Seyed Arash Katourani

The CMS Inner Tracker, made of silicon pixel modules, will be entirely replaced prior to the start of the High Luminosity LHC period. One of the crucial components of the new Inner Tracker system is the readout chip, being developed by the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-11-01 Natalia Emriskova

A switched-capacitor matrix multiplier is presented for approximate computing and machine learning applications. The multiply-and-accumulate operations perform discrete-time charge-domain signal processing using passive switches and 300 aF…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Edward H. Lee , S. Simon Wong

We present the characterization of a readout Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) for the CMS Endcap Timing Layer (ETL) of the High-Luminosity LHC upgrade with charge injection. The ASIC, named ETROC and developed in a 65 nm CMOS…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-09-03 H. Sun , D. Gong , W. Zhang , C. Edwards , c G. Huang , X. Huang , C. Liu , T. Liu , T. Liu , J. Olsen , Q. Sun , J. Wu , J. Ye , L. Zhang

This paper describes the design and testing results of an 8 channels preamplifier-discriminator circuit based on a resistive feedback Transimpedance Amplifier architecture and a Leading-Edge Discriminator stage for fast high-accuracy time…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-10-26 Abderrahmane Ghimouz , Fatah Ellah Rarbi , Olivier Rossetto

The Analog Pipeline Chip (APC) is a low noise, low power readout chip for silicon micro strip detectors with 128 channels containing an analog pipeline of 32 buffers depth. The chip has been designed for operation at HERA with a power…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-07-19 Michael Hilgers , Roland Horisberger

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

We present an analog silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) based on a standard 55 nm Bipolar-CMOS-DMOS (BCD) technology. The SiPM is composed of 16$\times$16 single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) and measures 0.29$\times$0.32 mm$^2$. Each SPAD…

Joint progresses in Cd(Zn)Te detectors, microelectronics and interconnection technologies open the way for a new generation of instruments for physics and astrophysics applications in the energy range from 1 to 1000 keV. Even working…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-11-10 O. Limousin , O. Gevin , F. Lugiez , R. Chipaux , E. Delagnes , B. Dirks , B. Horeau

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

Synchrotron radiation light sources produce intense beam of X-ray with ultra-short pulse and nanosecond period. This of-fers the opportunities for the time resolution experiments. Achieving higher counting rate and faster arriving time is…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-11-05 Zhen-jie Li , Qiu-ju Li , Peng Liu , Shan-feng Wang , Wei-wei Dong , Yang-fan Zhou