Radiation Qualification of Commercial-Off-The-Shelf LVDS and G-link Serializers and Deserializers for the ATLAS Endcap Muon Level-1 Trigger System

The ATLAS endcap muon level-1 trigger system is divided into three parts; one off-detector part and two on-detector parts. Serialized data transfer with LVDS is used between two on-detector parts (15m apart) and serialized G-link transfer with optical transmission (90m) is used from the on-detector part to the off-detector part. Since the radiation damage of the components used in the on-detector parts is a matter of concern, we have investigate systematically the radiation susceptibility to both total ionizing dose and single event effects of COTS serializer/deserializer chipsets for LVDS (two candidates) and G-link (one) together. In this report we discuss in detail the characteristics of these LVDS chipsets and qualification of the G-link components for radiation.