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This work presents a comprehensive characterization of the FERS 5202 front-end readout unit when processing signals from Silicon Photo-multipliers (SiPMs). The readout system's performance is characterized in terms of its charge resolution,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-12-24 R. M. I. D Gamage , F. Ambrosino , L. Cimmino , G. Nyitrai , G. Saracino

This article presents the readout electronics of a novel beam monitoring system for ion research facility accelerator. The readout electronics are divided into Front-end Card (FEC) and Readout Control Unit (RCU). FEC uses Topmetal II minus…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-02-18 Honglin Zhang , Haibo Yang , Xianqin Li , Yuezhao Zhang , Xiangming Sun , Dong Wang , Ran Huang , Yao Wang , Wei Zhou , Chengxin Zhao

We have implemented a cost-effective design for the readout electronics of both the anode wires and the cathode pads of large area proportional wire chambers for the HERA-B muon system based on the ASD-08 integrated circuit. To control and…

The high-luminosity upgrade of the LHC (HL-LHC) brings unprecedented requirements for precision bunch-by-bunch luminosity measurement and beam-induced background monitoring in real time. A key component of the CMS Beam Radiation…

In the context of the Silicon tracking for a Linear Collider (SiLC) R&D collaboration, a highly compact mixed-signal chip has been designed in 130nm CMOS technology intended to read Silicon strip detectors for the experiments at the future…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-03-27 Aurore Savoy-Navarro , Jean F. Genat , Th. Hung Pham , Rachid. Sefri , Albert Comerma , Angel Dieguez

A 64-channel mixed-mode ASIC, suitable for particle detectors of large dynamic range and high capacitance up to hundreds of pF, is presented here. Each channel features an analogue front-end for signal amplification and filtering, and a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-09-04 W. Cheng , F. Cossio , M. Da Rocha Rolo , A. Rivetti , Z. Wang

Edge detection is a fundamental image analysis task that underpins numerous high-level vision applications. Recent advances in Transformer architectures have significantly improved edge quality by capturing long-range dependencies, but this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Yuhan Gao , Xinqing Li , Xin He , Bing Li , Xinzhong Zhu , Ming-Ming Cheng , Yun Liu

COFFEE series is a HVCMOS pixel sensor using the advanced 55 nm process, currently being developed for the Upstream Pixel (UP) tracker of the LHCb Upgrade II. To ensure that COFFEE will be able to handle the particle hit rates at UP…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-04-09 Xiaoxu Zhang , Yang Zhou , Xiaomin Wei , Anqi Wang , Leyi Li , Yu Zhao , Zexuan Zhao , Huimin Wu , Mingjie Feng , Lei Zhang , Jianchun Wang , Yiming Li

The CMS tracker consists of two tracking systems utilizing semiconductor technology: the inner pixel and the outer strip detectors. The tracker detectors occupy the volume around the beam interaction region between 3 cm and 110 cm in radius…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-01-10 Viktor Veszpremi

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

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

The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is designed to study a wide range of high energy physics phenomena. It employs a large all-silicon tracker within a 3.8 T magnetic solenoid, which allows precise…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-10-29 Thomas James

The Skipper CCD-in-CMOS Parallel Read-Out Circuit (SPROCKET) is a mixed-signal front-end design for the readout of Skipper CCD-in-CMOS image sensors. SPROCKET is fabricated in a 65 nm CMOS process and each pixel occupies a 50$\mu$m $\times$…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-02-09 Adam Quinn , Manuel B. Valentin , Thomas Zimmerman , Davide Braga , Seda Memik , Farah Fahim

A scalable readout system (SRS) is designed to provide a general solution for different micro-pattern gas detectors. The system mainly consists of three kinds of modules: the ASIC card, the Adapter card and the Front-End Card (FEC). The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-06-16 Qi-Bin Zheng , Shu-Bin Liu , Jing Tian , Cheng Li , Chang-Qing Feng , Qi An

The ALICE Forward Multiplicity Detector (FMD) is a silicon strip detector with 51,200 strips arranged in 5 rings, covering the range $-3.4 < \eta < 5.1$. It is placed around the beam pipe at small angles to extend the charged particle…

We present details of the design for the CCD readout electronics for the Subaru Telescope Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS). The spectrograph is comprised of four identical spectrograph modules, each collecting roughly 600 spectra. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Stephen C. Hope , James E. Gunn , Craig P. Loomis , Roger E. Fitzgerald , Grant O. Peacock

A complete dedicated electronics, from front-end to back-end, was developed to instrument a MIMAC prototype. A front end ASIC able to monitor 64 strips of pixels and to provide their individual "Time Over Threshold" information has been…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-20 O. Bourrion , G. Bosson , C. Grignon , J. P. Richer , O. Guillaudin , F. Mayet , J. Billard , D. Santos

Embedded field programmable gate array (eFPGA) technology allows the implementation of reconfigurable logic within the design of an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC). This approach offers the low power and efficiency of an ASIC…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Julia Gonski , Aseem Gupta , Haoyi Jia , Hyunjoon Kim , Lorenzo Rota , Larry Ruckman , Angelo Dragone , Ryan Herbst

We present the development of an automated testing system for the VMM hybrid of the RD51 collaboration. The VMM hybrid is a new front-end board for the RD51 common readout system, the Scalable Readout System, and will become the workhorse…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-03-01 Finn Jaekel , Klaus Desch , Jochen Kaminski , Michael Lupberger , Lucian Scharenberg , Patrick Schwaebig

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…