title: SPADIC - a Self-Triggered Detector Readout ASIC with Multi-Channel Amplification and Digitization
creator: Armbruster, Tim
subject: 004
subject: 004 Data processing Computer science
subject: 500
subject: 500 Natural sciences and mathematics
subject: 530
subject: 530 Physics
subject: 600
subject: 600 Technology (Applied sciences)
description: The intention of this dissertation was the development of a multi-channel mixedsignal  detector readout ASIC. This paper describes the whole design process that starts  with the vague requirement for a readout chip for some CBM/FAIR sub-detector and that  ends with the latest and actually realized system on a chip solution called SPADIC, which  is mainly intended to read out the future CBM-TRD. This work comprises the design from  scratch of 6 ASIC prototypes and 10 PCB readout setups as well as the development of  various software and firmware components, the characterization of the designed ASICs, the  development of the SPADIC concept, the design of the SPADIC website, and not at least the  collaboration with the TRD physicists with the achieved goal to read out signals of chamber  prototypes using different SPADICs during CERN beam-times or in the laboratory. Besides  the descriptions of the most important chip details and the corresponding theoretical  analyses, an overall introduction into detectors and detector physics – written on a level  for engineers – is given in this paper in order to embed this technical work into its physical  context. The effective output of this dissertation is the self-triggered 32-channel charge  pulse amplification and digitization chip SPADIC 1.0.
date: 2013
type: Dissertation
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserverhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/14981/1/Thesis_Armbruster.pdf
identifier: DOI:10.11588/heidok.00014981
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-149813
identifier:   Armbruster, Tim  (2013) SPADIC - a Self-Triggered Detector Readout ASIC with Multi-Channel Amplification and Digitization.  [Dissertation]     
relation: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/14981/
rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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language: eng