Mass production of a trigger data serializer ASIC for the upgrade of the muon spectrometer at the ATLAS experiment
Abstract
The Trigger Data Serializer (TDS) is a custom ASIC designed for the upgrade of the innermost station of the endcap ATLAS Muon spectrometer. It is a mixed-signal chip with two working modes that can handle up to 128 detector channels. A total of 6000 TDS ASICs have been produced for detector operation. This paper discusses a custom automatic test platform we developed to provide quality control of the TDS ASICs. We introduce the design, illustrate the test procedures, and discuss the experimental results.
- Publication:
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Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A
- Pub Date:
- September 2019
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.nima.2019.05.032
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1904.08957
- Bibcode:
- 2019NIMPA.937...87W
- Keywords:
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- Quality assurance;
- ASIC;
- Muon;
- ATLAS;
- Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
- E-Print:
- 6 pages, 7 figures