The SVX2 readout chip

Author

Zimmerman, T. ; Sarraj, M. ; Yarema, R. ; Kipnis, I. ; Kleinfelder, S. ; Luo, L. ; Milgrome, O.

Author_Institution

Fermi Nat. Accel. Lab., Batavia, IL, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1994

Firstpage

483

Abstract

A new readout chip called SVX2 is being designed for silicon detector systems at Fermilab. SVX2 is essentially an upgrade of the presently used SVX chip and contains extensive performance and feature enhancements. SVX2 is designed to accommodate much shorter beam crossing times (132 ns to 400 ns) with minimal increase in noise and power. Analog signal delay is formed by a double correlated sampling pipeline in order to allow time for trigger formation. Signal digitization of up to eight bits is performed on the chip with an A/D converter per channel. This allows threshold setting, sparsification, and readout to be purely digital. Design philosophy is discussed and test results presented

Keywords

analogue-digital conversion; detector circuits; digital readout; integrated circuit layout; integrating circuits; mixed analogue-digital integrated circuits; nuclear electronics; silicon radiation detectors; trigger circuits; 132 to 400 ns; Fermilab; SVX2 readout chip; Si; analog signal delay; beam crossing times; double correlated sampling pipeline; signal digitization; silicon detector systems; sparsification; threshold setting; trigger formation; Circuits; Contracts; Delay effects; Detectors; Laboratories; Pipelines; Sampling methods; Silicon; Strips; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, 1994., 1994 IEEE Conference Record

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2544-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.1994.474333

Filename

474333