SCEMA: a high channel density electronics module for fast waveform capture
Abstract
The development of fast, highly pixelated photodetectors with single-photon sensitivity has the potential to enable a variety of new radiation detection concepts. Systems that desire to employ these detectors without loss of information demand waveform digitization with high sampling rates. Switched capacitor arrays provide a low-cost, low-power, compact solution to fast readout with high channel density. The Sandia Laboratories Compact Electronics for Modular Acquisition (SCEMA) was developed to meet these demands. A single module employs two domino ring sampling switched capacitor arrays (DRS4) [1] to provide 16 channels of up to 5 GS/s waveform digitization. This paper presents an overview of the board design and function. Calibration procedures for the module are discussed. Finally, temporal resolution tests are presented demonstrating the module's viability as readout for high fidelity temporal measurements of single photons in suitable photodetectors.
- Authors:
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- Sandia National Lab. (SNL-CA), Livermore, CA (United States)
- Univ. of Hawai'i at Manoa, Honolulu, HI (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Sandia National Lab. (SNL-CA), Livermore, CA (United States); Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI (United States); Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Fusion Energy Sciences (FES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1528870
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1597742; OSTI ID: 1605513
- Report Number(s):
- SAND-2019-6724J
Journal ID: ISSN 1748-0221; 676410
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC04-94AL85000; SC0010504
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Journal of Instrumentation
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 14; Journal Issue: 02; Journal ID: ISSN 1748-0221
- Publisher:
- Institute of Physics (IOP)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 47 OTHER INSTRUMENTATION; Digital electronic circuits; Front-end electronics for detector readout; Data acquisition circuits; Modular electronics; data acquisition circuits; digital electronic circuits; front-end electronics for detector readout; modular electronics
Citation Formats
Steele, John, Brown, Joshua Arthur, Brubaker, Erik, and Nishimura, Kurtis. SCEMA: a high channel density electronics module for fast waveform capture. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1088/1748-0221/14/02/P02031.
Steele, John, Brown, Joshua Arthur, Brubaker, Erik, & Nishimura, Kurtis. SCEMA: a high channel density electronics module for fast waveform capture. United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/14/02/P02031
Steele, John, Brown, Joshua Arthur, Brubaker, Erik, and Nishimura, Kurtis. Tue .
"SCEMA: a high channel density electronics module for fast waveform capture". United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/14/02/P02031. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1528870.
@article{osti_1528870,
title = {SCEMA: a high channel density electronics module for fast waveform capture},
author = {Steele, John and Brown, Joshua Arthur and Brubaker, Erik and Nishimura, Kurtis},
abstractNote = {The development of fast, highly pixelated photodetectors with single-photon sensitivity has the potential to enable a variety of new radiation detection concepts. Systems that desire to employ these detectors without loss of information demand waveform digitization with high sampling rates. Switched capacitor arrays provide a low-cost, low-power, compact solution to fast readout with high channel density. The Sandia Laboratories Compact Electronics for Modular Acquisition (SCEMA) was developed to meet these demands. A single module employs two domino ring sampling switched capacitor arrays (DRS4) [1] to provide 16 channels of up to 5 GS/s waveform digitization. This paper presents an overview of the board design and function. Calibration procedures for the module are discussed. Finally, temporal resolution tests are presented demonstrating the module's viability as readout for high fidelity temporal measurements of single photons in suitable photodetectors.},
doi = {10.1088/1748-0221/14/02/P02031},
journal = {Journal of Instrumentation},
number = 02,
volume = 14,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Feb 26 00:00:00 EST 2019},
month = {Tue Feb 26 00:00:00 EST 2019}
}
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