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Pixel front-end with synchronous discriminator and fast charge measurement for the upgrades of HL-LHC experiments

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Published 4 March 2016 © 2016 IOP Publishing Ltd and Sissa Medialab srl
, , Topical Workshop on Electronics for Particle Physics Citation E. Monteil et al 2016 JINST 11 C03013 DOI 10.1088/1748-0221/11/03/C03013

1748-0221/11/03/C03013

Abstract

The upgrade of the silicon pixel sensors for the HL-LHC experiments requires the development of new readout integrated circuits due to unprecedented radiation levels, very high hit rates and increased pixel granularity. The design of a very compact, low power, low threshold analog very front-end in CMOS 65 nm technology is described. It contains a synchronous comparator which uses an offset compensation technique based on storing the offset in output. The latch can be turned into a local oscillator using an asynchronous logic feedback loop to implement a fast time-over-threshold counting. This design has been submitted and the measurement results are presented.

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10.1088/1748-0221/11/03/C03013