학술논문

ASIC for Small Angle Neutron Scattering Experiments at the SNS
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on. 54(3):541-548 Jun, 2007
Subject
Nuclear Engineering
Bioengineering
Application specific integrated circuits
Neutron spin echo
Gas detectors
Circuit noise
Noise level
Filtering
Timing
Current measurement
Charge measurement
ADC
ASIC
gas detector
peak detector
Language
ISSN
0018-9499
1558-1578
Abstract
We present an ASIC for a $^{3}$ He gas detector to be used in small angle neutron scattering experiments at the Spallation Neutron Source in Oak Ridge. The ASIC is composed of 64 channels with low noise charge amplification, filtering, timing and amplitude measurement circuits, where an innovative current-mode peak-detector and digitizer (PDAD) is adopted. The proposed PDAD provides at the same time peak detection and A/D conversion in real time, at low power, and without requiring a clock signal. The channels share an efficient data sparsification and derandomization scheme, a 30-bit 256 deep FIFO, and low voltage differential signaling.