NINO: An ultra-fast and low-power front-end amplifier/discriminator ASIC designed for the multigap resistive plate chamber

For the full exploitation of the excellent timing properties of the Multigap Resistive Plate Chamber (MRPC), front-end electronics with special characteristics are needed. These are (a) differential input, to profit from the differential signal from the MRPC (b) a fast amplifier with less than 1 ns...

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Autores principales: Anghinolfi, F, Jarron, P, Martemyanov, A N, Usenko, E, Wenninger, Horst, Williams, M C S, Zichichi, A
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2004
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Detectors and Experimental Techniques
Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2004.07.024
http://cds.cern.ch/record/818554
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author Anghinolfi, F
Jarron, P
Martemyanov, A N
Usenko, E
Wenninger, Horst
Williams, M C S
Zichichi, A
author_facet Anghinolfi, F
Jarron, P
Martemyanov, A N
Usenko, E
Wenninger, Horst
Williams, M C S
Zichichi, A
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description For the full exploitation of the excellent timing properties of the Multigap Resistive Plate Chamber (MRPC), front-end electronics with special characteristics are needed. These are (a) differential input, to profit from the differential signal from the MRPC (b) a fast amplifier with less than 1 ns peaking time and (c) input charge measurement by Time-Over-Threshold for slewing correction. An 8- channel amplifier and discriminator chip has been developed to match these requirements. This is the NINO ASIC, fabricated with 0.25 omegam CMOS technology. The power requirement at 40mW/channel is low. Results on the performance of the MRPCs using the NINO ASIC are presented. Typical time resolution a of the MRPC system is in the 50 ps range, with an efficiency of 99.9%.
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spelling cern-8185542019-09-30T06:29:59Zdoi:10.1016/j.nima.2004.07.024http://cds.cern.ch/record/818554engAnghinolfi, FJarron, PMartemyanov, A NUsenko, EWenninger, HorstWilliams, M C SZichichi, ANINO: An ultra-fast and low-power front-end amplifier/discriminator ASIC designed for the multigap resistive plate chamberDetectors and Experimental TechniquesFor the full exploitation of the excellent timing properties of the Multigap Resistive Plate Chamber (MRPC), front-end electronics with special characteristics are needed. These are (a) differential input, to profit from the differential signal from the MRPC (b) a fast amplifier with less than 1 ns peaking time and (c) input charge measurement by Time-Over-Threshold for slewing correction. An 8- channel amplifier and discriminator chip has been developed to match these requirements. This is the NINO ASIC, fabricated with 0.25 omegam CMOS technology. The power requirement at 40mW/channel is low. Results on the performance of the MRPCs using the NINO ASIC are presented. Typical time resolution a of the MRPC system is in the 50 ps range, with an efficiency of 99.9%.oai:cds.cern.ch:8185542004
spellingShingle Detectors and Experimental Techniques
Anghinolfi, F
Jarron, P
Martemyanov, A N
Usenko, E
Wenninger, Horst
Williams, M C S
Zichichi, A
NINO: An ultra-fast and low-power front-end amplifier/discriminator ASIC designed for the multigap resistive plate chamber
title NINO: An ultra-fast and low-power front-end amplifier/discriminator ASIC designed for the multigap resistive plate chamber
title_full NINO: An ultra-fast and low-power front-end amplifier/discriminator ASIC designed for the multigap resistive plate chamber
title_fullStr NINO: An ultra-fast and low-power front-end amplifier/discriminator ASIC designed for the multigap resistive plate chamber
title_full_unstemmed NINO: An ultra-fast and low-power front-end amplifier/discriminator ASIC designed for the multigap resistive plate chamber
title_short NINO: An ultra-fast and low-power front-end amplifier/discriminator ASIC designed for the multigap resistive plate chamber
title_sort nino: an ultra-fast and low-power front-end amplifier/discriminator asic designed for the multigap resistive plate chamber
topic Detectors and Experimental Techniques
url https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2004.07.024
http://cds.cern.ch/record/818554
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