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Design of an 8-channel 40 GS/s 20 mW/Ch waveform sampling ASIC in 65 nm CMOS

Conference · · Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A

One picosecond timing resolution is the entry point to signature based searches relying on secondary/tertiary vertices and particle identification. We describe PSEC5, an 8-channel 40 GS/s waveform-sampling ASIC in TSMC 65 nm process targetting one picosecond resolution at 20 mW power per channel. Each channel consists of four fast and one slow switched capacitor arrays (SCA), allowing for picosecond time resolution combined with a long effective buffer. Each fast SCA is 1.6 ns long and has a nominal sampling rate of 40 GS/s. The slow SCA is 204.8 ns long and samples at 5 GS/s. Recording of the analog data for each channel is triggered by a fast discriminator capable of multiple triggering during the window of the slow SCA. To achieve a large dynamic range, low leakage, and high bandwidth, the SCA sampling switches are implemented as 2.5 V nMOSFETs controlled by 1.2 V shift registers. Stored analog data are digitized by an external ADC at 10 bits or better. Specifications on operational parameters include a 4 GHz analog bandwidth and a dead time of 20 microseconds, corresponding to a 50 kHz readout rate, determined by the choice of the external ADC. PSEC5 has been submitted for fabrication.

Research Organization:
Chicago U., KICP; Chicago U., EFI; Unlisted, US, IL; Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Stanford U., Phys. Dept.; Texas U., San Antonio
Sponsoring Organization:
US Department of Energy
DOE Contract Number:
89243024CSC000002
OSTI ID:
2407254
Report Number(s):
FERMILAB-CONF-24-0375-PPD; arXiv:2407.09575; oai:inspirehep.net:2807720
Journal Information:
Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A, Journal Name: Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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