Design and prototyping of the front end readout system for the CDF silicon vertex detector

Author

Haber, C. ; Carithers, W.C. ; Ely, R.P. ; Holland, S. ; Kirsten, F. ; Kleinfelder, S. ; Spieler, H. ; Wester, W.C. ; Wong, M. ; Amidei, D. ; Hrycyk, M. ; Kephart, R. ; Tkacek, S. ; Tollestrup, A. ; Yarema, R.J. ; Zimmerman, T. ; Bedeschi, F. ; Galeotti, S

Author_Institution

Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA, USA

Volume

37

Issue

3

fYear

1990

fDate

6/1/1990 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1120

Lastpage

1126

Abstract

A silicon microstrip vertex detector is under construction for the collider detector at Fermilab (CDF). The vertex detector, which contains close to 4000 individual strips, will be read out with the full-custom VLSI circuit, the SVX chip, developed for this application. The integration of this circuit into a full front-end readout system is described. Problems of noise, packaging, signal and power distribution, control and readout, testing, and quality control are discussed. Results are presented on the operation of a prototype system including silicon strips

Keywords

VLSI; electron device noise; nuclear electronics; quality control; semiconductor counters; CDF; Fermilab; SVX chip; Si microstrip vertex detector; VLSI circuit; collider detector; control; design; front end readout system; noise; packaging; power distribution; prototyping; quality control; readout; testing; Circuit noise; Circuit testing; Detectors; Microstrip; Packaging; Power distribution; Prototypes; Silicon; Strips; Very large scale integration;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/23.57353

Filename

57353