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Tesi etd-08182014-164101


Tipo di tesi
Tesi di laurea magistrale
Autore
CARATELLI, ALESSANDRO
Indirizzo email
caratelli.a@gmail.com
URN
etd-08182014-164101
Titolo
Design of a radiation tolerant control ASIC for high energy physics experiments
Dipartimento
INGEGNERIA DELL'INFORMAZIONE
Corso di studi
INGEGNERIA ELETTRONICA
Relatori
correlatore Kloukinas, Kostas
relatore Prof. Saletti, Roberto
Parole chiave
  • ASIC
  • CERN
  • GBT
  • HEP
  • high energy physics
  • LHC
  • monitoring
  • rad-hard
  • radiation tolerant
  • SCA
  • SEU
  • single event upset
  • slow control
  • slow control
  • VLSI
Data inizio appello
26/09/2014
Consultabilità
Completa
Riassunto

This work describes the design of a radiation tolerant, monitoring and control ASIC for applications in high-energy physics experiments, called GBT-SCA.
The future upgrades of the LHC will increase the beam luminosity leading to a corresponding growth of the amounts of data to be treated by the data acquisition systems. To address these needs, a new architecture, referred as GBT system, was developed to provide the simultaneous transfer of readout data, timing and trigger signals as well as slow control and monitoring data.
The GBT-SCA, part of the GBT chip-set, has the purpose to distribute control and monitoring signals to the on-detector front-end electronics and monitoring of detector environmental quantities for the future upgrades of the LHC experiments at CERN.
In order to meet the requirements of different front-end ASICs used in multiple experiments, it provides various fully user-configurable protocol ports able to perform simultaneous transfers. Radiation hardening techniques have been applied to ensure robustness against SEUs and TID radiation effects.
The thesis presents the overall architecture of the ASIC describing in detail the design of the peripheral ports, the dual layer communication architecture, the system on chip interconnectivity and the techniques used to mitigate radiation effects, the simulations results and the implementation of the setup for ion beam tests.
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