LAB4D: A low power, multi-GSa/s, transient digitizer with sampling timebase trimming capabilities

Roberts, Jarred M.; Varner, Gary S.; Allison, Patrick; Fox, Brendan; Oberla, Eric; Rotter, Ben; Spack, Stefan

doi:10.1016/j.nima.2019.01.091

LAB4D: A low power, multi-GSa/s, transient digitizer with sampling timebase trimming capabilities

Journal Article · Tue Feb 05 23:00:00 EST 2019 · Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2019.01.091· OSTI ID:1597752

Roberts, Jarred M. ^[1]; Varner, Gary S. ^[2]; Allison, Patrick ^[3]; Fox, Brendan ^[2]; Oberla, Eric ^[4]; Rotter, Ben ^[2]; Spack, Stefan ^[5]

Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI (United States); UH High Energy Physics Group
Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI (United States)
The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH (United States)
Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States)
Univ. of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland, Delemont (Switzerland)

The LAB4D is a new application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) of the Large Analog Bandwidth Recorder and Digitizer with Ordered Readout (LABRADOR) family, for use in direct wideband radio frequency digitization such as is used in ultrahigh energy neutrino and cosmic ray astrophysics. The LAB4D is a single channel switched-capacitor array (SCA) 12-bit sampler with integrated analog-to-digital converters (ADC), developed in the TSMC 0.25um process. The LAB4D, operating at 3.2GSa/s, contains 4096 total samples arranged in 32 windows, for a total record length of 1280ns. The 3dB bandwidth is approximately 1.3GHz, with a directly-coupled 50ohm input. This represents a factor of 16 increase in the sample depth and an increase in analog bandwidth and sampling depth in comparison to the previous generation LAB3 digitizer. Individually addressable windows allow for sampling and digitization to occur simultaneously, leading to nearly deadtime-free readout for kHz readout rates. All biases and current references are generated via internal digital-to-analog converters (DACs), resulting in a stand-alone digitizer with no additional support circuitry. In addition, the LAB4D contains sample cell timebase trimming capabilities, reducing the intrinsic sample-to-sample time variance to less than 5ps; an improvement of about 80%. This allows the LAB4D to be used in precision timing applications with minimal post-hoc calibration.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0010504

OSTI ID:: 1597752

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1547773

Journal Information:: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Journal Name: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment Journal Issue: C Vol. 925; ISSN 0168-9002

Publisher:: ElsevierCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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