A low-power 10-bit ADC in a 0.25-/spl mu/m CMOS: design considerations and test results

Rivetti, A.; Anelli, G.; Anghinolfi, F.; Mazza, G.; Rotondo, F.

doi:10.1109/23.958755

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“…The first two, PASCAL and AMBRA, are assembled on the front-end hybrid, shown in figure 3.19 on its assembly jig. PASCAL contains three functional blocks: preamplifier, analogue storage and Analogue-to-Digital Converter (ADC) [64][65][66][67]. AMBRA, which receives data from PASCAL, is a digital four-event buffer which performs data derandomisation, baseline equalization on an anode-by-anode basis and 10-bit to 8bit non-linear data compression.…”

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The ALICE experiment at the CERN LHC

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ALICE is the heavy-ion experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The experiment continuously took data during the first physics campaign of the machine from fall 2009 until early 2013, using proton and lead-ion beams. In this paper we describe the running environment and the data handling procedures, and discuss the performance of the ALICE detectors and analysis methods for various physics observables.

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The ALICE experiment at the CERN LHC

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“…Signal processing techniques being developed for processing the data from the detector [1,2] also call for a high sampling rate of the ADC -at least one sample per bunch-crossing (BC), which means 40 MS/s for typical LHC experiments [3,4]. Some effort was invested in dedicated ADC ASIC development for LHC applications in the past decade [5][6][7][8][9]. This brief will explore the potential of the successive-approximation-register (SAR) ADC implemented in deeply scaled bulk CMOS technology for the application of particle physics experiment.…”

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High-speed, high-resolution, radiation-tolerant SAR ADCs for particle physics experiments

Yuan

Chiu

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J. Inst.

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We present two CMOS 12-bit successive-approximation-register (SAR) analog-todigital converter (ADC) designs and the total dose irradiation test results of the second, a 12bit, 160-MS/s two-step SAR ADC in 40-nm CMOS. This second SAR ADC, which measured a 67.5-dB signal-to-noise plus distortion ratio (SNDR) and a >85-dB spurious-free dynamic range (SFDR), showed minimal degradation after being exposed to a total ionizing dose (TID) of up to 1 Mrad. The measured power consumption is 4.5 mW and 6.1 mW at 80 MS/s and 160 MS/s, respectively. The small silicon area of both ADCs also exhibits a great advantage for treating single event effects (SEE) using redundancy techniques, e.g., the triple modular redundancy (TMR), with much less concern for additional area overhead in a future upgrade than designs that occupy large silicon area. The experimental results reveal great potentials of SAR ADC implemented in scaled bulk CMOS process for the front-end digitizing applications of high-energy particle physics experiments.

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The Alice Experiment at the CERN LHC

Kuijer¹

2003

Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on High Energy Physics Ichep 2002

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ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) is a general-purpose, heavy-ion detector at the CERN LHC which focuses on QCD, the strong-interaction sector of the Standard Model. It is designed to address the physics of strongly interacting matter and the quark-gluon plasma at extreme values of energy density and temperature in nucleus-nucleus collisions. Besides running with Pb ions, the physics programme includes collisions with lighter ions, lower energy running and dedicated proton-nucleus runs. ALICE will also take data with proton beams at the top LHC energy to collect reference data for the heavy-ion programme and to address several QCD topics for which ALICE is complementary to the other LHC detectors. The ALICE detector has been built by a collaboration including currently over 1000 physicists and engineers from 105 Institutes in 30 countries. Its overall dimensions are 16×16×26 m 3 with a total weight of approximately 10 000 t. The experiment consists of 18 different detector systems each with its own specific technology choice and design constraints, driven both by the physics requirements and the experimental conditions expected at LHC. The most stringent design constraint is to cope with the extreme particle multiplicity anticipated in central Pb-Pb collisions. The different subsystems were optimized to provide high-momentum resolution as well as excellent Particle Identification (PID) over a broad range in momentum, up to the highest multiplicities predicted for LHC. This will allow for comprehensive studies of hadrons, electrons, muons, and photons produced in the collision of heavy nuclei. Most detector systems are scheduled to be installed and ready for data taking by mid-2008 when the LHC is scheduled to start operation, with the exception of parts of the Photon Spectrometer (PHOS), Transition Radiation Detector (TRD) and Electro Magnetic Calorimeter (EMCal). These detectors will be completed for the high-luminosity ion run expected in 2010. This paper describes in detail the detector components as installed for the first data taking in the summer of 2008.

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A low-power 10-bit ADC in a 0.25-/spl mu/m CMOS: design considerations and test results

Cited by 21 publications

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The ALICE experiment at the CERN LHC

The ALICE experiment at the CERN LHC

High-speed, high-resolution, radiation-tolerant SAR ADCs for particle physics experiments

The Alice Experiment at the CERN LHC

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