Fifth Workshop on Electronics for LHC Experiments

Table of Contents

ORGANISATION 1

OVERVIEW 2

PLENARY SESSIONS 2

ROUNDTABLE 3

PARALLEL WORKING GROUPS 3

POSTERS 3

INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION 3

NEXT WORKSHOP 3

PLENARY TALKS 5

Raymond Rausch (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland) Electronics Components and Systems, Radiation Qualification for Use in the LHC Machine 7

Krishna Shenai (University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois, USA) Electronics for High-Energy Physics Experiments in the Giga-Scale Integration Era 14

Andrew J. Lankford (Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, California, USA) Developing and Commissioning BABAR Electronics 23

Peter Alfke (Xilinx, Inc., San Jose, California, USA) The Future of Field-Programmable Gate Arrays 36

Jorgen Christiansen (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland) Testing LHC Electronics 41

Birger Schneider (microLEX Systems A/S, Hoersholm, Denmark) Scalable Test Solutions: A Means of Improving ASIC Performance and Time-to-Market in Mixed-Signal Engineering Test 51

Jim Kinnison (The Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland, USA) Using COTS at the LHC: Building on Space Experience 61

ELECTRONICS FOR TRACKERS 81

John Richardson (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA) The ATLAS Pixel On-Detector Electronics 83

Kenneth Wyllie (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland) A Pixel Readout Chip for Tracking at ALICE and Particle Identification at LHCb 93

Abderrezak Mekkaoui (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois, USA) FPIX1: an Advanced Pixel Readout Chip 98

Waclaw Karpinski (I.Physikalisches Institut RWTH, Aachen, Germany) Performance Studies of Pixel Readout Electronics in RICMOS IV-SOI and DMILL Processes 103

Ulrich Goerlach (Institut de Recherches Subatomiques IreS, Strasbourg, France) Recent Developments and Results on APV (DMILL) Circuits for Silicon and MSGC Detectors 108

Wladek Dabrowski (Faculty of Physics and Nuclear Techniques, UMM, Krakow, Poland) presented by Francis Anghinolfi (CERN, Geneva , Switzerland) Radiation Hardness of the ABCD Chip for the Binary Readout of Silicon Strip Detectors in the ATLAS Semiconductor Tracker 113

Francis Anghinolfi (CERN, Geneva , Switzerland) Performance of the Electrical Module Prototypes for the ATLAS Silicon Tracker 118

Tim Dubbs (Institute For Particle Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz, California, USA) The Development of the CAFE-P/CAFE-M Bipolar Chips for the ATLAS Semiconductor Tracker 123

Mitch Newcomer (Physics Department, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA) Progress in Development of the ASDBLR ASIC for the ATLAS TRT 128

Carlos Lacasta (Instituto de Física Corpuscular, Valencia, Spain) Wafer Screening of the Front-End ASICs for ATLAS SCT 133

Gianni Mazza (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Torino, Italy) Recent Developments on the Silicon Drift Detector Readout Scheme for ALICE Inner Tracking System 138

Arie de Haas (NIKHEF, Utrecht, The Netherlands) Very Low Mass Microcables for the ALICE Silicon Strip Detector 143

Jean Robert Lutz (Institut de Recherches Subatomiques IReS, Strasbourg, France) TAB Bonded SSD Module for the STAR and ALICE Trackers 147

Markus French (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, UK) The Development of a Rad-Hard CMOS Chip for the Binary Readout of the ATLAS Semiconductor Tracker 152

Angelo Rivetti (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland and Politecnico. Torino, Italy) Analog Design in Deep Submicron CMOS Processes for LHC 157

Lawrence Jones (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, UK) The APV25 Deep Submicron Readout Chip for CMS Detectors 162

Edgar Sexauer (Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, Germany) Design of a Prototype Frontend and Bias Generator for a new Readout Chip for LHCb 167

Optoelectronics and data transfer systems 173

Giovanni Cervelli (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland) Optical Links for the CMS Tracker 175

Kukka Banzuzi (Helsinki Institute of Physics, Espoo, Finland) Optical Link Developments for the CMS RPC 180

Gilles Mahout (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK) Radiation Hard Optical Links for the ATLAS SCT and Pixel Detectors 185

Federico Faccio (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland) An Amplifier with AGC for the 80Mbit/s Optical Receiver of the CMS Digital Optical Link 189

Paulo Moreira (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland) A 1.25Gbit/s Serializer for LHC Data and Trigger Optical Links 194

Radiation and Magnetic Field Tolerant Electronics Systems 199

Stephen Watts (Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK) Status of the RD48/ROSE Collaboration 201

Pratibha Vikas (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA) Avalanche Photodiodes for the CMS Electromagnetic Calorimeter 203

Giovanni Bonna (ST Microelectronics, Catania, Italy) A Radiation-Hardened Low-Dropout Voltage Regulator for LHC and Space Applications 208

Electronics for Calorimeters 215

Jacques Colas (LAPP, Annecy-le-Vieux, France) Overview of the ATLAS LARG Electronics 217

Sergio Rescia (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New-York, USA) presented by Helio Takai (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New-York, USA) Characterization of the Coherent Noise, Electromagnetic Compatibility and Electromagnetic Interference of the ATLAS EM Calorimeter Front End Board 222

Horst Brettel (Max-Planck-Institute für Physik, München, Germany) Cold Electronics for the Liquid Argon Hadronic End-Cap Calorimeter of ATLAS 227

Bernhard Skaali (Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway) Photodiode Read-Out of the ALICE Photon Spectrometer PbWO4 Crystals 232

Mauro Citterio (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New-York, USA) The Atlas Calorimeter Preamplifier: Performance, Radiation Damage, Electrostatic Discharge Resistance, Reliability and Manufacturing Issues 237

Dominique Breton (Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire, Orsay, France) The Front-End Electronics for LHCb Calorimeters 242

Teresa Monteiro (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland) Selective Readout in the CMS Electromagnetic Calorimeter 247

Bo Lofstedt (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland) The Digital Readout System for the CMS Electromagnetic Calorimeter 251

Magnus Engström (University of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden) presented by Jonas Klereborn (University of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden) The ATLAS Tile Calorimeter Digitizer 255

Alan E. Baumbaugh (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois, USA) First Testbeam Results for the QIE-Demonstrator Readout for the CMS Hadronic Calorimeter 260

Guy Perrot (LAPP, Annecy-le-Vieux, France) The ATLAS Calorimeter Calibration Board: Tests of a First Set of Boards New Developments 265

Jürgen Fent (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, Werner Heisenberg Institute, München, Germany) Jet Determination in Lar- Calorimeters using a Heavily Interconnected System of FPGA's 270

Gérard Bohner (Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire, Université Blaise Pascal, Aubière, France) A Mixed Analog/Digital Shaper for the LHCb Preshower 274

Trigger Electronics 279

Valerio Bocci (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Roma, Italy) Trigger Implementation in the KLOE Experiment 281

Vito Lenti (Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Bari, Italy) New Developments for the ALICE Trigger 285

Cornelius Schumacher (Institut für Hochenergiephysik der Universität, Heidelberg, Germany) The Readout Bus of the ATLAS Level-1 Calorimeter Trigger Pre-Processor 290

Sridhara Dasu (University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA) CMS Calorimeter Regional Trigger Prototypes 295

Viraj Perera (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, UK) The electron/photon and tau/hadron Cluster Processor for the ATLAS First-Level Trigger - a Flexible Test System 299

Jay Hauser (University of California, Los Angeles, California USA) Primitives for the CMS Cathode Strip Muon Trigger 304

János Erö (Institute for High Energy Physics HEPHY, Vienna, Austria and CERN, Geneva, Switzerland) New Approach for the CMS Muon Trigger Track Finder Processor 309

Samuel Silverstein (Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden) Use of Programmable Logic in a Pipelined Trigger for ATLAS 314

Darin Acosta (University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA) The Track-Finding Processor for the Level-1 Trigger of the CMS Endcap Muon System 318

John Dawson (Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, USA) A Prototype ROI Builder for the Second Level Trigger of ATLAS Implemented in FPGA's 323

Per Gällnö (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland) Modules Development for the TTC System 327

Kazumi Hasuko (International Center for Elementary Particle Physics ICEPP, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan) Strategy for Timing Adjustment of ATLAS End-Cap/Forward Muon Trigger System 331

Martin Postranecky (University College London, Department of Physics and Astronomy, London, UK) Timing, Trigger and Control Interface Module for ATLAS SCT Read Out Electronics 336

Data Acquisition & Detector Control and Real Time System 341

Attila Racz (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland) Generic Hardware for DAQ Applications 343

Dominique Gigi (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland) Dual-Port Memory with Reconfigurable Structure 348

Jose Toledo-Alcarcon (Politechnical University, Valencia, Spain) Readout Unit for the LHCb Experiment 352

John A. Coughlan (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, UK) presented by Steve Quinton (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, UK) A PMC Based ADC Card for CMS Tracker Readout 357

Carlos Beltrán Almeida (Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Lisboa, Portugal) Testability Issues in the CMS ECAL Upper-Level Readout and Trigger System 361

Wilfred. E. Cleland (University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA) Readout Driver for the ATLAS Liquid Argon Calorimeters 366

Detlef Swoboda (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland) The Detector Control System for ALICE - Architecture and Implementation 371

Alexander Kluge (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland) Study of the ALICE Time of Flight Readout System - AFRO 377

Horst Fischer (Fakultät für Physik, Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany) F1 - An Eight Channel Time-to-Digital Converter Chip for High Rate Experiments 383

Grounding Shielding and Cooling 389

Fritz Szoncsó (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland) Assessment of EMC Parameters of LHC Front End Electronics 391

Werner Lustermann (ETH, Zürich, Switzerland) presented by Nedko Shivarov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Central Lab. of Mechatronics & Instrumentation, Sofia, Bulgaria & ETH, Zürich, Switzerland) Low Voltage Supply System for the Very Front End Readout Electronics of the CMS Electromagnetic Calorimeter 397

Mauro Citterio (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New-York, USA) Are Switching Power Supplies Acceptable for the Liquid Argon Calorimeter Front-End Electronics? 402

Warren H. Newman (Intersil Corporation, Melbourne, Florida, USA) Radiation Hardened Power Electronics 407

Juan A. Agapito (Universidad Complutense, Electronics Department, Madrid, Spain) Preliminary Test for Radiation Tolerant Electronic Components for the LHC Cryogenic System 411

Michel Bosteels (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland) Liquid Cooling Systems (LCS2) for LHC Detectors 416

Greg Hallewell (Centre de Physique des Particules CPPM, Marseille, France and CERN, Geneva, Switzerland) Fluorocarbon Evaporative Cooling Developments for the ATLAS Pixel and Semiconductor Tracking Detectors 421

Giovanni M. Grieco (C.A.E.N. S.p.A., Viareggio, Italy) Custom HV and LV Supplies for LHC Experiments 427

Electronics for Muon Detectors 429

Jean-Claude Santiard (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland) The Gassiplex0.7-2 Integrated Front-End Analog Processor for the HMPID and the Dimuon Spectrometer of ALICE 431

Werner Riegler (Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA) Development of an Octal CMOS ASD for the ATLAS Muon Detector 436

Osamu Sasaki (High Energy Accelerator Research Organisation KEK, Tsukuba, Japan) ASD for the Thin Gap Chambers in the LHC ATLAS Experiment 443

John W. Chapman (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA) Data Flow Simulations through the ATLAS Muon Front-End Electronics 448

Paul O'Connor (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New-York, USA) Readout Electronics for a High-Rate CSC Detector 452

Flavio Loddo (Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Bari, Italy) A Prototype Front End Chip for the CMS Resistive Plate Chambers 457

Yasuo Arai (National High Energy Accelerator Research Organisation KEK, Tsukuba, Japan) Performance and Irradiation Tests of the 0.3 µm CMOS TDC for the ATLAS MDT 462

POSTERS 467

Pisana Placidi (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland and University and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Perugia, Italy) A 40 MHz Clock and Trigger Recovery Circuit for the CMS Tracker Fabricated in a 0.25 µm CMOS Technology and Using a Self Calibration Technique 469

Thomas Meyer (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA) CANbus and Microcontroller Use in the BaBar Detector at SLAC 473

Cornelius Schumacher (Institut für Hochenergiephysik, Heidelberg, Germany) The ATLAS Level-1 Calorimeter Trigger Pre-Processor 478

Gustavo Cancelo (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois, USA) Optimization of a Readout Architecture for Pixel Detectors 483

Zoltán Meggyesi (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland) FPGA Design in the Presence of Single Event Upsets 489

György Rubin (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland) The ALICE Detector Data Link 493

Yury Volkov (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia) Development of the Printed Circuit Units for Multiwire Chambers 499

Eduard Atkin (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia) Analog Signal Splitter 501

Cristoforo Marzocca (Dipartimento di Elletrotecnica ed Elettronica, Politecnico, Bari, Italy) Relative Robustness Against Process Fluctuations of Basic Building Blocks for Analog Front-End of Particle Detectors 503

Ulrich Trunk (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany) Performance and Radiation Tolerance of the Helix128-2.2 and 3.0 Readout Chips for the HERA-B Microstrip Detectors 508

Jonathan Fulcher (Imperial College, London, UK) Single Event Upset Studies on the APV6 Front End Readout Chip 513

Nunzio Randazzo (University of Catania and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Catania, Italy) Charge Amplifier and Analog Memory for Silicon Drift Detectors in ALICE 518

Paul Mockett (University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA) A Low Cost CAN Node for A/D Measurements in ATLAS 521

Magnus Hansen (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland) FERMI - A Digital Front End Readout Micro-System for Calorimetric Detectors at LHC 525

Jean-Pierre Mendiburu (LAPP, Annecy-le-Vieux, France) The Electronic Calibration of the ECAL-CMS 531

Christine Hu-Guo (Institut de Recherches Subatomiques IReS, Strasbourg, France) Low Noise BiCMOS Front-End Amplifier in the DMILL Technology 537

Christine Hu-Guo (Institut de Recherches Subatomiques IReS, Strasbourg, France) A 128 Channels Analog Readout Chip (APVD_DC) for DC-Coupled Silicon Detectors of the CMS Tracker 542

Peter Skorobogatov (Specialized Electronic Systems, Moscow, Russia) Use of Diffused Laser Irradiation to Improve Dose Rate Simulation Adequacy 547

Christian Kiesling (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, München, Germany) Neural Network Triggers for Global Event Decision at the LHC 551

Vladimir Popov (Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia) The HERA-B high-PT Level-0 Trigger Logic Electronics 557

Daniel Dzahini (ISN, Grenoble, France) An Automated Test Bench for the ATLAS Shapers and SCAs 561

Hermann Kolanoski (DESY, Zeuthen, Germany) Large-System Experience with the ASD-8 Chip in the HERA-B Experiment 564

PAPER ONLY 569

Federico Faccio (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland) SEU effects in registers and in a Dual-Ported Static RAM designed in a 0.25 µm CMOS technology for applications in the LHC 571

Ekkehard Gerndt (DESY, Hamburg, Germany) The HERA-B Level 1 Trigger 576

Michel Dupanloup (Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon, Villeurbanne, France Preliminary Irradiation Tests of the APVD Circuit for the CMS Tracker 581

Vitali V. Sushkov (University of California, Riverside, California, USA) Noise Contribution to Timing with Fraction Discriminators 588

LIST OF PARTICIPANTS 593

INDEX 607

The fifth in this series of workshops on Electronics for LHC Experiments, was organised for the CERN LHCC Electronics Board by the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.