eprintid: 14981
rev_number: 16
eprint_status: archive
userid: 587
dir: disk0/00/01/49/81
datestamp: 2013-05-29 05:29:31
lastmod: 2013-06-05 08:25:24
status_changed: 2013-05-29 05:29:31
type: doctoralThesis
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Armbruster, Tim
title: SPADIC - a Self-Triggered Detector Readout ASIC with Multi-Channel Amplification and Digitization
subjects: 004
subjects: 500
subjects: 530
subjects: 600
divisions: 130200
divisions: 720000
adv_faculty: af-13
cterms_swd: SPADIC
cterms_swd: Readout ASIC
cterms_swd: CBM
abstract: 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
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00014981
ppn_swb: 165238555X
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-149813
date_accepted: 2013-05-03
advisor: HASH(0x564e1c37e0c0)
language: eng
bibsort: ARMBRUSTERSPADICASEL2013
full_text_status: public
citation:   Armbruster, Tim  (2013) SPADIC - a Self-Triggered Detector Readout ASIC with Multi-Channel Amplification and Digitization.  [Dissertation]     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/14981/1/Thesis_Armbruster.pdf