Title :
An analog memory, time-to-amplitude converter and trigger logic chip for PMT applications
Author :
Ekenberg, T. ; Berg, R. Van ; Biman, A. ; Stevenson, R.L.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys., Pennsylvania Univ., Philadelphia, PA, USA
fDate :
30 Oct-5 Nov 1994
Abstract :
The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory is a second generation, real time solar neutrino water Cherenkov detector. The electronics designed for this experiment includes a set of full custom integrated circuits to handle the large amount of data being received from the detector. One of these circuits is a CMOS analog/digital storage array used to temporarily store and identify the charge and event time information from a photomultiplier tube for later analysis. The CMOS chip will be described and several interesting features will be highlighted. Some test results will also be presented
Keywords :
CMOS integrated circuits; Cherenkov counters; cosmic ray neutrinos; detector circuits; mixed analogue-digital integrated circuits; neutrino detection; nuclear electronics; CMOS analog/digital storage array; CMOS chip; PMT; analog memory time-to-amplitude converter; charge information; event time information; full custom integrated circuits; photomultiplier tube; second generation real time solar neutrino water Cherenkov detector; trigger logic chip; Analog memory; Application specific integrated circuits; CMOS analog integrated circuits; CMOS digital integrated circuits; CMOS logic circuits; Detectors; Neutrino sources; Observatories; Photomultipliers; Solar power generation;
Conference_Titel :
Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, 1994., 1994 IEEE Conference Record
Conference_Location :
Norfolk, VA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-2544-3
DOI :
10.1109/NSSMIC.1994.474398
