A 15GSa/s, 1.5GHz bandwidth waveform digitizing ASIC

Oberla, Eric; Genat, Jean-Francois; Grabas, Hervé; Frisch, Henry; Nishimura, Kurtis; Varner, Gary

doi:10.1016/j.nima.2013.09.042

A 15GSa/s, 1.5GHz bandwidth waveform digitizing ASIC

Journal Article · Wed Sep 25 00:00:00 EDT 2013 · Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2013.09.042· OSTI ID:1598679

Oberla, Eric ^[1]; Genat, Jean-Francois ^[2]; Grabas, Hervé ^[2]; Frisch, Henry ^[2]; Nishimura, Kurtis ^[3]; Varner, Gary ^[3]

Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States). Enrico Fermi Inst.; UH High Energy Physics Group
Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States). Enrico Fermi Inst.
Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI (United States)

The PSEC4 custom integrated circuit was designed for the recording of fast waveforms for use in large-area time-of-flight detector systems. The ASIC has been fabricated using the IBM-8RF 0.13 micron CMOS process. On each of 6 analog channels, PSEC4 employs a switched capacitor array (SCA) 256 samples deep, a ramp-compare ADC with 10.5 bits of DC dynamic range, and a serial data readout with the capability of region-of-interest windowing to reduce dead time. The sampling rate can be adjusted between 4 and 15 Gigasamples/second [GSa/s] on all channels and is servo-controlled on-chip with a low-jitter delay-locked loop (DLL). The input signals are passively coupled on-chip with a -3 dB analog bandwidth of 1.5 GHz. The power consumption in quiescent sampling mode is less than 50 mW/chip; at a sustained trigger and readout rate of 50 kHz the chip draws 100 mW. After fixed-pattern pedestal subtraction, the uncorrected integral non-linearity is 0.15% over an 750 mV dynamic range. With a linearity correction, a full 1 V signal voltage range is available.The sampling timebase has a fixed-pattern non-linearity with an RMS of 13%, which can be corrected for precision waveform feature extraction and timing.

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

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP) (SC-25)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0010504

OSTI ID:: 1598679

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 22249394

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. 735; ISSN 0168-9002

Publisher:: ElsevierCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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