CERN has available a low power front-end amplifier discriminator ASIC chip for use in applications based on electron and photon detecting in medical imaging, life science or material research. This so-called NINO ASIC allows for an 8-channel input signal charge measurement through encoding discriminator pulse width with excellent timing resolution at very high rate, while at the same time providing a very low noise performance and power consumption characteristics per channel.
This ASIC was developed by the LAA project at CERN and is used for time-of-flight measurements for particle vertex reconstruction in the ALICE experiment of the LHC collider.
Advantages & Applications
Applications
Photon and electron detection at very high rates in medical imaging, life science and material research
Specifications
Specifications
- Channels: 8
- Voltage supply: 2.5V
- Peaking time: 1ns
- Input signal range: 30fC - 2pC
- Noise: <2500 e-
- Discriminator threshold: 10fC - 100fC
- Timing precision: <10ps jitter
- Output: LVDS
Innovative features
- Compact packaging through 0.25µm CMOS technology (fits in a 2x4 mm2 area)
- Adjustable discriminator thresholds
- Adjustable 50 ohm input resistance
- 27mW power consumption per channel
- Front end time jitter <10ps
- Sustains very high rate (>>10MHz)