24–28 May 2021
America/Vancouver timezone

Performance and Integration results of a high resolution Time to Digital Converter designed for INO ICAL Experiment

27 May 2021, 05:00
30m
Poster Readout: Trigger and DAQ Posters: Trigger and DAQ

Speaker

Mr Yuvaraj Elangovan (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)

Description

INO ICAL Experiment emphasis on studying various properties of Atmospheric Neutrinos. A 50 kton Iron Calorimeter and Resistive plate Chamber (RPC) in stacked geometry will be used to track neutrinos. Position and directional information are to be used to identify particle energies. RPC detector signal of rise time less than 1ns is amplified-discriminated and given to Digital Front End (RPC-DAQ). To time these fast pulses we designed a low power, compact multi-channel delay-chain-based time-to-digital converter (TDC) in a 0.13µm ASIC which will be integrated in the RPC-DAQ module. This TDC is capable of handling multiple hits per channel with a single-shot precision better than 65.34ps. A 4 line or 11 line serial peripheral interface (SPI) is used for readout and configuration. This paper presents the performance and integration results of this TDC.

TIPP2020 abstract resubmission? No, this is an entirely new submission.

Primary author

Mr Yuvaraj Elangovan (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)

Co-authors

Ms Chithra . (Indian Institute of Technology Madras) Gobinda Majumder (Tata Inst. of Fundamental Research (IN)) Mandar Saraf (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research) Mr Nagendra Krishnapura (Indian Institute of Technology Madras) Mr R.R. Shinde (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, INDIA) Mr S.S Upadhya (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, INDIA) Satyanarayana Bheesette

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