CERN Accelerating science

ATLAS Note
Report number	ATL-INDET-PROC-2012-018
Title	The ATLAS Pixel nSQP Readout Chain
Author(s)	Welch, S (Oklahoma State U.) ; Dopke, J (CERN)
Corporate Author(s)	The ATLAS collaboration
Publication	2012
Imprint	31 Oct 2012
Number of pages	5
In:	Topical Workshop on Electronics for Particle Physics, Oxford, UK, 17 - 21 Sep 2012
Subject category	Detectors and Experimental Techniques
Accelerator/Facility, Experiment	CERN LHC ; ATLAS
Free keywords	nSQP, E-Readout, E-Board
Abstract	The ATLAS Pixel New Service Quarter Panel (nSQP) project aims to deliver replacements for all on-detector services of the ATLAS Pixel Detector. The nSQPs will have replacements for the electro-optical converters. The replacement devices are LVDS transceiver boards (E-Boards) and they communicate with the existing ATLAS Pixel MCC chips over the original type 0 cables. In the other direction the E-Boards communicate over a 6.6 meter long transmission line with the VCSEL driver chips in the new electro-optical converters. These converters have been relocated to a region that is much more accessible.
Copyright/License	Preprint: (License: CC-BY-4.0)