The read-out controller ASIC for the ATLAS experiment at LHC Stefan Popa

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Popa, Ștefan, author.

Series:

Springer theses

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Particle acceleration--Measurement.

Particle acceleration.

Detectors.

Large Hadron Collider (France and Switzerland)--Experiments.

Large Hadron Collider (France and Switzerland).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

[S.l.] : SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PU, 2022.

Cham, Switzerland Springer [2022]

Summary:

This thesis presents the complete chain from specifications to real-life deployment of the Read Out Controller (ROC) ASIC for the ATLAS Experiment at LHC, including the design of the FPGA-based setup used for prototype validation and mass testing of the approximately 6000 chips. Long-lasting experiments like the ATLAS at the LHC undergo regular upgrades to improve their performance over time. One of such upgrades of the ATLAS was the replacement of a fraction of muon detectors in the forward rapidities to provide much-improved reconstruction precision and discrimination from background protons. This new instrumentation (New Small Wheel) is equipped with custom-designed, radiation-hard, on-detector electronics with the Read Out Controller chip being a mission-critical element. The chip acts as a clock and control signals distributor and a concentrator, buffer, filter and real-time processor of detector data packets. The described and deployed FPGA-based test setup emulates the asynchronous chip context and employs optimizations and automatic clock and data synchronization. The chip's tolerance to nuclear radiation was evaluated by recording its operation while controlled ultrafast neutron beams were incident to its silicon die. Predictions for the operating environment are made. A proposed implementation of an FPGA Integrated Logic Analyzer that mitigates the observed limitations and constraints of the existing ones is included

Contents:

Introduction

The Read-Out Controller

ROC Testing

Immunity to Radiation-Induced Faults

An application

Conclusions

Appendices

Notes:

Doctoral thesis accepted by Transilvania University of Braşov, Romania

Includes bibliographical references

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 12, 2023)

Other Format:

Print version POPA, STEFAN. READ OUT CONTROLLER ASIC FOR THE ATLAS EXPERIMENT AT LHC

ISBN:

9783031180743

3031180747

OCLC:

1357159764

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