학술논문

Design and performance of the ABCD chip for the binary readout of silicon strip detectors in the ATLAS semiconductor tracker
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on. 47(6):1843-1850 Dec, 2000
Subject
Nuclear Engineering
Bioengineering
Prototypes
Semiconductor device measurement
Silicon
Strips
Detectors
Manufacturing processes
Semiconductor device manufacture
Digital integrated circuits
Integrated circuit testing
Performance evaluation
Language
ISSN
0018-9499
1558-1578
Abstract
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. Wafer screening has been performed using a customised wafer tester.