A 12 bit analog to digital converter for VLSI applications in nuclear science

Conference · Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 1992 · IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (United States)

OSTI ID:6921624

Milgrome, O B; Kleinfelder, S A; Levi, M E ^[1]

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1. Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA (United States)

This paper reports on a high density monolithic analog to digital converter (ADC) that has been designed and tested. The ADC features small silicon area and low power consumption for use in multichannel circuits for massively parallel particle physics detectors. The tested chip contains a linear ramp, precision high speed comparators, a pipelined counter, and double buffering storage latches fabricated in a 2 micron 2 polysilicon complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technology. The prototype integrated circuit successfully combines digital frequencies in excess of 70 Mhz, with analog signals smaller than 1 mV. Test results show 1/4096 rms errors at conversion rates above 30 Khz, with less than 4 mW per channel power dissipation.

• DOE Contract Number: AC03-76SF00098
• OSTI ID: 6921624
• Report Number(s): CONF-911106-; CODEN: IETNAE
• Journal Information: IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (United States), Vol. 39:4; Conference: 1991 Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) nuclear science symposium and medical imaging conference, Santa Fe, NM (United States), 2-9 Nov 1991; ISSN 0018-9499
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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PULSE ANALYZERS
RADIATION DETECTION
SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES
SEMIMETALS
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