Published November 1, 1994
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Journal article
Fast bipolar front-end for binary readout of silicon strip detectors
- 1. Faculty of Physics and Nuclear Techniques, Academy of Mining and Metallurgy, Cracow (Poland)
- 2. INFN, Via P. Giuria, 1, I-10125 Torino (Italy)
Description
A very fast low-noise low-power 64-channel front-end chip for binary readout of silicon microstrip detectors (FABRIC) has been designed and manufactured using the full-custom bipolar process SHPi by Tektronix. The circuit consists of a preamplifier, a shaper and a discriminator. A noise level of 476 e-+63 e-/pF has been obtained for the amplifier peaking time of 15 ns. The walk time of the discriminator is less than 5 ns for input signals ranging from 2 fC to 8 fC at a discriminator threshold of 1 fC. The dead time for two minimum ionizing particle signals is 40 ns. The above parameters have been obtained with a low power consumption of 1.3 mW per channel. ((orig.))
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
- Journal Volume
- 350
- Journal Issue
- 3
- Journal Page Range
- p. 548-555.
- ISSN
- 0168-9002
- CODEN
- NIMAER
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- Netherlands
- INIS RN
- 26011729
- Subject category
- S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;
- Descriptors DEI
- BACKGROUND NOISE; CHARGED PARTICLE DETECTION; COUNTING RATES; DEAD TIME; GAIN; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; POSITION SENSITIVE DETECTORS; PREAMPLIFIERS; PULSE DISCRIMINATORS; PULSE SHAPERS; READOUT SYSTEMS; SI SEMICONDUCTOR DETECTORS
- Descriptors DEC
- AMPLIFICATION; AMPLIFIERS; DETECTION; DISCRIMINATORS; ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; NOISE; PULSE CIRCUITS; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION DETECTORS; SEMICONDUCTOR DETECTORS; TIMING PROPERTIES