DCD - The multi-channel current-mode ADC chip for the readout of DEPFET pixel detectors

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 57, Issue 2 PART 2, 2010, Pages 743-753

  Perić, Ivan ^a   Armbruster, Tim ^a   Koch, Manuel ^b   Kreidl, Christian ^a   Fischer, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Belle II; Current copier; Current mode A D converter; Current mode memory cell; Cyclic (algorithmic) A D converter; DEPFET detector; ILC; Switched current memory cell

Indexed keywords

A/D CONVERTER; CURRENT COPIERS; CURRENT MODE; CYCLIC (ALGORITHMIC) A/D CONVERTER; MEMORY CELL; SWITCHED CURRENT MEMORY CELLS;

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DETECTORS; ERROR CORRECTION; PIXELS; SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TWO TERM CONTROL SYSTEMS;

MULTICARRIER MODULATION;

EID: 77951202742     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2010.2040487     Document Type: Article

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