The SVX3D integrated circuit for dead-timeless silicon strip readout

• Published in: Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment Vol. 435; no. 1; pp. 58 - 64
• Main Authors: Garcia-Sciveres, M, Milgrome, O, Zimmerman, T, Volobouev, I, Ely, R.P, Connolly, A, Fish, D, Affolder, T, Sill, A
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 01-10-1999
• Subjects: CMOS process; Silicon strops; SVX3D; CMOS process; Silicon strops; 29.40.Gx; SVX3D; 84.30.Yq; 29.40.Wk
• ISSN: 0168-9002; 1872-9576
• DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9002(99)00409-X

The revision D of the SVX3 readout IC has been fabricated in the Honeywell radiation-hard 0.8 μm bulk CMOS process, for instrumenting 712,704 silicon strips in the upgrade to the Collider Detector at Fermilab. This final revision incorporates new features and changes to the original architecture that were added to meet the goal of dead-timeless operation. This paper describes the features central to dead-timeless operation, and presents test data for un-irradiated and irradiated SVX3D chips.