| Title | Kerberos: a 48-Channel Analog Processing Platform for Scalable Readout of Large SDD Arrays |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 2019 |
| Authors | King, Pietro, Torrisi, Giuseppe, Gugiatti, Matteo, Carminati, Marco, Mertens, Susanne, Fiorini, Carlo |
| Conference Name | 2019 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC) |
| Keywords | 16-channel integrated programmable analog pulse processors, 48-channel analog processing platform, analog ASIC-based solution, application specific integrated circuits, back-end electronics, beta-decay spectroscopy, continuous spectrum, cryptography, data acquisition, detection modules, Detectors, digital pulse processor, field programmable gate arrays, Human Behavior, KATRIN experiment, Kerberos, low-cost multichannel readout option, Metrics, monolithic array, multichannel scalable analog processing, Neutrino sources, nuclear electronics, Physics, pixellated detectors, position sensitive particle detectors, Preamplifiers, pubcrawl, readout electronics, Resiliency, scalable processing solution, scalable readout, SDD arrays, semiconductor counters, Semiconductor device measurement, simple cost multichannel readout option, solid scintillation detectors, spectroscopic quality, sterile neutrino existence, TRISTAN detector development, TRISTAN project, viable processing solution |
| Abstract | The readout of large pixellated detectors with good spectroscopic quality represents a challenge for both front-end and back-end electronics. The TRISTAN project for the search of the Sterile neutrino in the keV-scale, envisions the operation of 21 detection modules equipped with a monolithic array of 166 SDDs each, for v-decay spectroscopy in the KATRIN experiment's spectrometer. Since the trace of the sterile neutrino existence would manifest as a kink of \textbackslashtextless; 1ppm in the continuous spectrum, high accuracy in the acquisition is required. Within this framework, we present the design of a multichannel scalable analog processing and DAQ system named Kerberos, aimed to provide a simple and low-cost multichannel readout option in the early phase of the TRISTAN detector development. It is based on three 16-channel integrated programmable analog pulse processors (SFERA ASICs), high linearity ADCs, and an FPGA. The platform is able to acquire data from up to 48 pixels in parallel, providing also different readout and multiplexing strategies. The use of an analog ASIC-based solution instead of a Digital Pulse Processor, represents a viable and scalable processing solution at the price of slightly limited versatility and count rate. |
| DOI | 10.1109/NSS/MIC42101.2019.9059626 |
| Citation Key | king_kerberos_2019 |
Kerberos: a 48-Channel Analog Processing Platform for Scalable Readout of Large SDD Arrays