A lightweight, user-configurable detector ASIC digital architecture with on-chip data compression for MHz X-ray coherent diffraction imaging

Strempfer, Sebastian; Zhou, Tao; Yoshii, Kazutomo; Hammer, Mike; Babu, Anakha; Bycul, Dawid; Weizeorick, John; Cherukara, Mathew J.; Miceli, Antonino

doi:10.1088/1748-0221/17/10/p10042

A lightweight, user-configurable detector ASIC digital architecture with on-chip data compression for MHz X-ray coherent diffraction imaging

Journal Article · Thu Oct 27 00:00:00 EDT 2022 · Journal of Instrumentation

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/17/10/p10042· OSTI ID:1960724

Strempfer, Sebastian ^[1]; Zhou, Tao ^[2]; Yoshii, Kazutomo ^[1]; Hammer, Mike ^[1]; Babu, Anakha ^[1]; Bycul, Dawid ^[1]; Weizeorick, John ^[1]; Cherukara, Mathew J. ^[1]; Miceli, Antonino ^[1]

Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Center for Nanoscale Materials

Today, most X-ray pixel detectors used at light sources transmit raw pixel data off the detector ASIC. With the availability of more advanced ASIC technology nodes for scientific application, more digital functionalities from the computing domains (e.g., compression) can be integrated directly into a detector ASIC to increase data velocity. In this paper, we describe a lightweight, user-configurable detector ASIC digital architecture with on-chip compression which can be implemented in 130 nm technologies in a reasonable area on the ASIC periphery. In addition, we present a design to efficiently handle the variable data from the stream of parallel compressors. The architecture includes user-selectable lossy and lossless compression blocks. The impact of lossy compression algorithms is evaluated on simulated and experimental X-ray ptychography datasets. This architecture is a practical approach to increase pixel detector frame rates towards the continuous 1 MHz regime for not only coherent imaging techniques such as ptychography, but also for other diffraction techniques at X-ray light sources.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357

OSTI ID:: 1960724

Journal Information:: Journal of Instrumentation, Journal Name: Journal of Instrumentation Journal Issue: 10 Vol. 17; ISSN 1748-0221

Publisher:: Institute of Physics (IOP)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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