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Abstract | ||
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The counting of the consecutive ionization clusters in a drift chamber is a very promising technique for particle identification purposes. Up to now the bottleneck for the application of this technique was the possibility of realizing a large number of very-fast read-out channels with reduce power consumption. Typical time separation between each ionization act in a helium-based gas mixture is from a few ns to a few tens of ns. Thus the read-out interface has to be able to process such a high-speed signals. In this paper, the first realization of a CMOS 0.13 μm integrated readout circuit, including a fast variable gain amplifier (VGA) with 160 MHz bandwidth is designed for the central tracker of a future collider (ILC, super-B). The VGA circuit has been optimized for low power consumption. Moreover, it presents a programmable power consumption (8.4 mA, 9.4 mA, 10.6 mA) according to the gain setting (0dB, 10dB, 20dB). The design issues and the measured performance associated to this architecture are discussed. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2009 | 10.1109/ICECS.2009.5410823 | Yasmine Hammamet |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
CMOS integrated circuits,amplifiers,drift chambers,optimisation,readout electronics,CMOS VGA,CMOS integrated readout circuit,bandwidth 160 MHz,collider,current 10.6 mA,current 8.4 mA,current 9.4 mA,drift chambers,gain 0 dB,gain 10 dB,gain 20 dB,helium-based gas mixture,ionization clusters,optimization,particle identification,programmable power consumption,read-out interface,size 0.13 μm,variable gain amplifier | Bottleneck,Variable-gain amplifier,Ionization,Computer science,Communication channel,Electronic engineering,CMOS,Bandwidth (signal processing),Video Graphics Array,Electrical engineering,Amplifier | Conference |
ISBN | Citations | PageRank |
978-1-4244-5091-6 | 0 | 0.34 |
References | Authors | |
1 | 10 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stefano D'Amico | 1 | 129 | 27.42 |
| Marcello De Matteis | 2 | 42 | 17.29 |
| Franco Grancagnolo | 3 | 1 | 1.84 |
| Marco Panareo | 4 | 1 | 2.18 |
| Roberto Perrino | 5 | 1 | 0.83 |
| Gabriele Chiodini | 6 | 1 | 0.83 |
| Alessandro Corvaglia | 7 | 1 | 2.86 |
| Giuseppe Cocciolo | 8 | 5 | 3.69 |
| Andrea Baschirotto | 9 | 168 | 48.21 |
| De Matteis, M. | 10 | 54 | 16.15 |