BARC/PUB/2016/0218

 
 

Design of a constant fraction discriminator for the VFAT3 front-end ASIC of the CMS GEM detector

 
     
 
Author(s)

Abbaneo, D.; Abbas, M.; Abbrescia, M.; Mohanty, A. K.; Pant, L. M.; and others
(NPD)

Source

Journal of Instrumentation, 2016. Vol. 11 (1): pp. 1-9: Article no. C01023

ABSTRACT

In this work the design of a constant fraction discriminator (CFD) to be used in the VFAT3 chip for the read-out of the triple-GEM detectors of the CMS experiment, is described. A prototype chip containing 8 CFDs was implemented using 130 nm CMOS technology and test results are shown.

 
 
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