Monolithic current integrator circuit as a building block of wide dynamic range ADC for calorimetry system

Author

Tanaka, Manobu ; Ikeda, Hirokazu ; Ikeda, Mlitsuo ; Inaba, Susumu ; Fujita, Youichi

Author_Institution

KEK, Tsukuba, Japan

fYear

1992

fDate

25-31 Oct 1992

Firstpage

384

Abstract

A monolithic charge-to-amplitude converter integrated circuit (QAC IC) was developed with a bipolar application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) technology. The QAC IC could be used as a building block of a wide-dynamic-range analog-to-digital converter (ADC). Stacking more than two QAC ICs, one could achieve larger dynamic range than that of the single QAC. The QAC IC could be used in a narrow gate application as well as in a wide gate application. The QAC IC was examined in terms of input impedance, transfer function of the current signal, and linearity. The input impedance was kept 50 Ω up to 100 MHz. The integral nonlinearity was 0.1% for the maximum input charge of 600 pC. The dynamic range of the single QAC IC was 4000 pC

Keywords

analogue-digital conversion; application specific integrated circuits; bipolar integrated circuits; calorimeters; nuclear electronics; particle detectors; ASIC; QAC IC; analog-to-digital converter; bipolar application-specific integrated circuit; calorimetry system; current integrator circuit; current signal; input impedance; integral nonlinearity; linearity; maximum input charge; monolithic charge-to-amplitude converter; narrow gate application; transfer function; wide dynamic range ADC; wide gate application; Analog integrated circuits; Analog-digital conversion; Application specific integrated circuits; Bipolar integrated circuits; Dynamic range; Impedance; Integrated circuit technology; Monolithic integrated circuits; Stacking; Transfer functions;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, 1992., Conference Record of the 1992 IEEE

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0884-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.1992.301264

Filename

301264