FSSR2, a Self-Triggered Low Noise Readout Chip for Silicon Strip Detectors

Author

Re, Valerio ; Manghisoni, Massimo ; Ratti, Lodovico ; Hoff, Jim ; Mekkaoui, Abderrezak ; Yarema, Ray

Author_Institution

Univ. di Bergamo

Volume

53

Issue

4

fYear

2006

Firstpage

2470

Lastpage

2476

Abstract

The FSSR2 is the second release of the Fermilab Silicon Strip Readout Chip. The chip has been designed and fabricated in a 0.25 mum CMOS technology for high radiation tolerance. The first release, simply called the FSSR, was a prototype version with many different analog front-end configurations. The best solution was chosen for the FSSR2 chip to optimize the noise, according to criteria discussed in this paper. The FSSR2 has been designed for the silicon strip detectors of the BTeV experiment. The chip services 128 strips and provides address, time and magnitude information for all hits. Several programmable features are included in FSSR2, such as an internal pulser, a baseline restorer and a signal peaking time selectable among four values in the range between 65 ns and 125 ns. The circuit design and the performance of FSSR2 are discussed in this paper

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; nuclear electronics; prototypes; readout electronics; semiconductor device noise; silicon radiation detectors; CMOS technology; FSSR2; Fermilab silicon strip readout chip; analog front-end configuration; baseline restorer; circuit design; high radiation tolerance; internal pulser; prototype; self-triggered low noise readout chip; signal peaking time; silicon strip detectors; Application specific integrated circuits; CMOS technology; Circuit synthesis; Detectors; Integrated circuit noise; Prototypes; Semiconductor device noise; Signal restoration; Silicon; Strips; CMOS; front-end electronics; noise; silicon strip detectors;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TNS.2006.877858

Filename

1684129