Development of a detector control system chip / PhD thesis of: Niklaus Lehmann. Wuppertal, 25.06.2019
Inhalt
- Table of contents
- Introduction
- Physics at the Large Hadron Collider
- Silicon tracking detectors
- Silicon detectors
- PN-junction
- Silicon sensor modules: Hybrid detectors
- CMOS detectors: Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors
- Read out electronics
- Detector power supply
- Design of radiation hard ASICs
- Radiation damage in integrated circuits
- Cumulative radiation effects
- Single event effects overview
- Single event upsets in logic
- Single event effects in analog elements
- Simulations of single event effects
- Radiation hard circuits
- Detector control system
- Pixel Serial Power & Protection chip
- Requirements
- Previous prototypes
- Next generation Pixel Serial Power & Protection chips
- Pixel Serial Power & Protection chip version 3 (PSPPv3)
- PSPP Add-on Regulator & Comparator chip (PARC)
- Pixel Serial Power & Protection chip version 4 (PSPPv4)
- PSPP Asynchronous TMR Test chip (PATT)
- Serial control bus
- Logic core
- Protocol Unit
- User Unit
- Protection against single event upsets
- Communication and logic test with the PSPPv3
- Logic function updates for the PSPPv4
- Test of PSPPv4 logic
- Asynchronous triple modular redundancy
- Clock detection circuit
- ADC
- Voltage measurement
- Temperature measurement
- Vglobal reference
- Internal monitoring channels
- ADC update in PSPPv4 and PATT
- ADC test
- Comparator for over-voltage and over-temperature protection
- Comparator implementation in the PSPPv3
- Radiation hard comparator
- Comparator enhancements
- Test results with the comparators
- Bypass transistor
- Bandgap reference
- Diode based bandgap reference
- Transistor based bandgap structure
- Usage of the transistor-BG in PSPPv3
- Radiation hard regulators
- Shunt regulator
- Linear regulator
- Regulator functionality test
- PARC regulator irradiation
- Updated regulator concept
- PSPPv4 regulator tests
- Power-on reset
- Shift register for SEU tests
- Operation and performance measurements
- Initial test setup
- Outer barrel demonstrator program
- Irradiation tests
- Stability and long term operation
- Risk analysis for serial power
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- Acronyms
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Introduction to ASIC design
- List of ASICs designed at the University of Wuppertal
- Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
