PETsys TOFPET2 ASIC
PETsys Time-of-Flight PET ASIC
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The PETsys High Performance TOFPET2 ASIC is a new 64 channel chip for the readout and digitization of signals from fast photon detectors in applications where a high data rate and fast timing is required. It uses a low threshold for timing and a high threshold for accepting the event. Both thresholds are separately configurable for each channel. Every time one of the 64 channels exceeds the high threshold a record is created giving the channel number, the time and the charge of the event. Activity in one channel does not cause any dead-time on the other channels.
Main Features
- Designed in standard CMOS 110 nm technology.
- Signal amplification and discrimination for each of 64 independent channels.
- Dual branch analogue interpolation TDCs for each channel. The first branch is used for timing measurement. The second branch can either be used for time-over-threshold (ToT) or charge measurement (ADC).
- Quad-bufered charge integration for each TDC or ADC in each channel
- Dynamic range: 1500 pC.
- SNR 25 dB for Qin=200 fC (about one p. e.) and input capacitance of 320 pF.
- TDC time binning: 30 ps.
- Gain adjustment per channel: 1, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8.
- On-chip calibration pulse generator with 6-bit programmable amplitude.
- Max channel hit rate: 600 kHz.
- Rejects dark counts without triggering, allowing to handle over 1 MHz of dark counts.
- Separately configurable thresholds for each channel.
- Configurable charge integration time up to two microseconds.
- Fully digital output, 4 LVDS data links double data rate (DDR) compatible.
- Max output data rate: 3.2 Gb/s.
- Clock frequency: 200 MHz.
- Power consumption per channel: 8.2 mW, depending on certain settings
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