A digital front-end readout microsystem for calorimetry at LHC-The FERMI project

Author

Dell´Acqua, A. ; Hansen, M. ; Lofstedt, B. ; Vanuxem, J.P. ; Svensson, C. ; Yuan, J. ; Hentzell, H. ; Alippi, C. ; Breveglieri, L. ; Dadda, L. ; Piuri, V. ; Salice, F. ; Sami, M. ; Stefanelli, R. ; Cattaneo, P. ; Fumagalli, G. ; Goggi, V.G. ; Brigati, S.

Author_Institution

CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

Volume

40

Issue

4

fYear

1993

fDate

8/1/1993 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

516

Lastpage

531

Abstract

A digital solution is presented to the front-end readout electronics for calorimetric detectors at future supercolliders based on high-speed analog-digital converters, a fully programmable pipeline/digital filter chain, and local intelligence. Questions of error correction, fault-tolerance and system redundancy are considered. A system integration of a multichannel device in a multichip, silicon-on-silicon microsystem hybrid is used. This solution allows a new level of integration of complex analog and digital functions with excellent flexibility in mixing technologies for the different functional blocks. This type of VLSI multichip integration allows a high degree of programmability at both the function and the system level, and offers the possibility of customizing the microsystem with detector-specific functions

Keywords

VLSI; analogue-digital conversion; calorimeters; data acquisition; nuclear electronics; physics computing; FERMI project; LHC; VLSI multichip integration; calorimetry; digital front-end readout; error correction; fault-tolerance; high-speed analog-digital converters; programmable pipeline/digital filter chain; system redundancy; Analog-digital conversion; Calorimetry; Detectors; Digital filters; Error correction; Fault tolerant systems; Pipelines; Readout electronics; Redundancy; Very large scale integration;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/23.256611

Filename

256611