Production database for the ATLAS-SCT front-end ASICs Lacasta C Anghinolfi Francis Kaplon J Szczygiel R Dabrowski W Demièrre P Ferrère D 2000 research-article

Progress in development of the readout chip for the ATLAS semiconductor tracker Dabrowski W Anghinolfi Francis Dick B Dubbs T Eklund L French M Gannon W Grillo A Jarron Pierre Kaplon J Kudlaty J Lacasta C La Marra D Macina Daniela CERN Mandic I Meddeler G Niggli H Philips P W Weilhammer Peter Spencer E Szczygiel R Zsenei A Clark A 2000 research-article

IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. 0018-9499 Design and performance of the ABCD chip for the binary readout of silicon strip detectors in the ATLAS semiconductor tracker Dabrowski W Anghinolfi Francis Buttar C M Cindro V Clarks A G Dawson I Dorfan D Dubbs T Falconer N French M Greenall A Grillo A A Happer R Jarron Pierre Kaplon J Kudlaty J Kramberger G Lacasta C La Marra D Macina Daniela CERN Mandic I Mikuz M Meddeler G Milgrome O Niggli H Phillips P W Roe S Smith A Spieler H Spencer E Szczygiel R Weilhammer Peter Wolter M Zsenei A 2000 47 1843 50 The ABCD design is a single chip implementation of the binary readout architecture for silicon strip detectors in the ATLAS semiconductor tracker. The prototype chip has been manufactured successfully in the DMILL process. In the paper we present the design of the chip and the measurement results. The basic analogue performance of the ABCD design has been evaluated using a prototype SCT module equipped with the ABCD chips. The digital performance has been evaluated using a general purpose IC tester. The measurements confirmed that all blocks of the ABCD design are fully functional and the chips meet all basic requirements of the SCT. (7 refs). research-article

The development of a rad-hard CMOS chip for the binary readout of the ATLAS semiconductor tracker Campbell D Falconer N French M Gannon W Morrissey M Phillips P W Tyndel M Carter A A Pritchard T E Ciocio A Gilchriese M G D Haber C Meddeler G Milgrome O Niggli H Spieler H DeWitt J Dorfan D Dubbs T Grillo A A Spencer E Anghinolfi Francis Jarron Pierre Kaplon J Lacasta C Weilhammer Peter Dabrowski W Wolter M Szczygiel R Clark A La Marra D Macina Daniela CERN Zsenei A 1999 research-article

The developement of the CAFE-P/CAFE-M bipolar chips for the ATLAS semiconductor tracker Dubbs T Dorfan D Grillo A Spencer E Seiden A Ullán M Ciocio A Gilchriese M G D Haber C Kipnis I Meddeler G Milgrome O Niggle H Spieler H Anghinolfi Francis Jarron Pierre Kaplon J Lacasta C Weilhammer Peter Dabrowski W Wolter M Szczygiel R Clark A La Marra D Macina Daniela CERN Zsenei A French M Falconer N Gannon W Phillips P Pritchard T E 1999 research-article

Performance of the electrical module prototypes for the ATLAS silicon tracker Anghinolfi Francis Ciocio A Clark A Dabrowski W Dolezal Z Dorfan D Dorholt O Dubbs T Feld L Ferrère D Gilchriese M G D Grillo A A Haber C Hornung M Kaplon J Ketterer C Kodys P Kohriki T Kondo T Lacasta C La Marra D Ludwig P Macina Daniela CERN Meddeler G Milgrome O Morone M C Niggli H Phillips R Rieth G Roe S Runge K Spencer E Spieler H Sundal B M Szczygiel R Terada S Turala Michal Tyndel M Ullán M Unno Y Weilhammer Peter Wolter M Zsenei A 1999 research-article

Radiation hardness of the ABCD chip for the binary readout of silicon strip detectors in the ATLAS semiconductor tracker Dabrowski W Anghinolfi Francis Jarron Pierre Kaplon J Roe S Weilhammer Peter Cindro V Mandic I Mikuz M Kramberger G Clark A La Marra D Macina Daniela CERN Zsenei A Dorfan D Dubbs T Grillo A Spencer E Kudlaty J Lacasta C Meddeler G Niggli H Wolter M Szczygiel R 1999 research-article

The ABCD binary readout chip for silicon strip detectors in the ATLAS silicon tracker Dabrowski W Anghinolfi Francis Jarron Pierre Kaplon J Lacasta C Weilhammer Peter Campbell D Gannon W Phillips P W Clark A La Marra D Macina Daniela CERN Zsenei A Dorfan D Dubbs T Grillo A Spencer E Kundu N Meddeler G Staaf P Wolter M Szczygiel R 1998 research-article

Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res., A Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res., A 0167-5087 Readout electronics development for the ATLAS silicon tracker Borer K Beringer J Anghinolfi Francis CERN Aspell P Chilingarov A G Jarron Pierre Heijne Erik H M Santiard Jean-Claude Verweij H Gössling C Lisowski B Reichold A Bonino R Clark A G Kambara H La Marra D Léger A Wu X Richeux J P Taylor G N Fedotov M G Kuper E A Velikzhanin Yu S Campbell D Murray P Seller P 1995 360 193 196 We present the status of the development of the readout electronics for the large area silicon tracker of the ATLAS experiment at the LHC, carried out by the CERN RD2 project. Our basic readout concept is to integrate a fast amplifier, analog memory, sparse data scan circuit and analog-to-digital convertor (ADC) on a single VLSI chip. This architecture will provide full analog information of charged particle hits associated unambiguously to one LHC beam crossing, which is expected to be at a frequency of 40 MHz. The expected low occupancy of the ATLAS inner silicon detectors allows us to use a low speed (5 MHz) on-chip ADC with a multiplexing scheme. The functionality of the fast amplifier and analog memory have been demonstrated with various prototype chips. Most recently we have successfully tested improved versions of the amplifier and the analog memory. A piecewise linear ADC has been fabricated and performed satisfactorily up to 5 MHz. A new chip including amplifier, analog memory, memory controller, ADC, and data buffer has been designed and submitted for fabrication and will be tested on a prototype of the ATLAS silicon tracker module with realistic electrical and mechanical constraints. research-article