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The MAD chip: 4 channel preamplifier + discriminator The MAD-Chip Board Example shown here: 16 channel Frontend Board (INFN Italy) Front Side En/Disabling channels over I2C bus (Philips PCF8577) Input for test signal • Threshold Setting • Temperature Readout 16 chan output (LVDS->TDC) MAD Chips Front side of board Test points The MAD-Chip Board Example shown here: 16 channel Frontend Board (INFN Italy) Back Side Input for test signal Differential wire signal inputs (as close to MAD chips as possible) Back side of board Qweak possible Layout 8 channel input connector I2C Channel Control (backside?) MAD Chip Daisy Chain I2C Bus 8 channel input connector MAD Chip 16 channel output Connector (LVDS) Input for test signal Connection to Ground bar (+ Mounting Holes) INFN Layout (154x44 mm) Principle of a traditional delayline readout ( 1 Channel of MAD chip) Example for a delayline readout with an interleave factor Fi=3 and N=4 Qweak Parameters: FI =8 (Interleave Factor) Tau =1ns or less, (depends only on TDC resolution and signal jitter ) N=18 (top/bottom Readout) Max Deadtime: N*Tau ~18ns FI: interleave factor K : channel number τ : delay of one delayline N : number of delay lines per chain K= t L -t R N + 2τ 2 tK = t L +t R Nτ + 2τ 2 Total number of TDC channel needed for delayline readout (2x Dual VDC chambers) #chan = 2*FI*Nplanes with FI=8 = 2*8*8 = 128 channels (=64/Octant) -> 256 channels (Top/Bottom RO) Principle of the Encoding Readout System (EROS) -> Delayline free readout (less dead time) 282 wires per plane, Read out by 16 TDC channels and a 2*256 Pattern Unit. (VDC: Max 8 simultaneous wire hits per track) 8 TDC channels 8 x 5-Bit Bus for decoding the channel number (8*2^5 = 256 max) To Pattern Logic (40 channels) Channel Bit Pattern (2^5 =32) “Bottom readout” of 141 wires “Top readout” of 141 wires Preamplifier/ Discriminator (MAD Board) To Pattern Logic (40 channels) 8 TDC channels Total amount of 16-chan boards: 18x2 x4 = 144 , say 150 including spares (18 boards per wire plane (9 for top readout, 9 for bottom readout), 2 wire planes per wire chamber, 4 wire chambers in total) Current Redesign of Flexible Interface Board (W&M task) -Based on Bill Gunning’s design - Modified based on feedback from several FlexBoard companies () - Coverlayers: Surface Mount Access, Hold-Down Tabs, Pad Fillets for preventing peel-offs Design requirements: A) Total number of preamplifier circuit boards : 150 (min. 144) B) MAD chip control 1) Individual channel disable: yes 2) Threshold control per chip or per board? Per board 3) Output pulse width fixed or adjustable? Default: fixed (we have to figure out the value) 4) External logic for trigger? No C) I^2C control functions see next slides 1) Calibration test input required? Yes, like in BigBite (capacitive coupling of a test signal trace to the input traces. Test signal trace should be terminated with 50 Ohms ) 2) Flexible boards to interface chamber wires to readout cards Will be done by W&M (CAD drawings) 3) Interface Flexible Board to Preamplifier: to be (re)defined (Task of W&M) D) HV bias distribution circuits? No E) Any other design considerations for interfacing the MAD chip outputs to standard readout electronics?{TDC etc.} -Depending on the TDC: LVDS to ECL translator cards (16x 16channel cards) -Smarter: Remove the ECL->LVDS converter of F1-TDC, use LVDS directly Front-End I2C Control Wire signal Wire signal I2C 4x ADC 1x DAC PCF 8591 MAD #1 input con. MAD #2 16 I/O PCF 8575 input con. 16 chan output MAD #3 MAD #4 Voltage Regulators (+5,+2.5,+1.5) Output is LVDS, will be hooked up to a remote LVDS->ECL translator board Shown is the scheme for controlling a single 16 channel front-end board using I2C chips. PCF 8575 is used for disabling or enabling the MAD chip inputs individually. PCF 8591 is used for monitoring the regulated voltages + applied threshold (4x 8 Bit ADC) and for setting the threshold per board (1x 8 BitADC). The threshold voltage from the ADC will be divided by e.g. 20 using a passive divider chain (e.g. 5V == 250mV actual threshold, step ~1mV) 2x Mux 8x Mux 2x Mux 8x Mux FE #1 2x Mux 8x Mux FE #1 8x Mux FE #1 ... FE #8 FE #9 U-Top ... FE #8 FE #9 U-Bottom ... FE #8 FE #9 V-Top ... FE #8 FE #9 V-Bottom 4x MUX FE #1 2x Mux VDC Front-End I2C Multiplexing I2C Data This is a draft of how to address the I2C chips on each Frontend Electronics board (FE) that commonly have a limited address identifier of 3 Bits (8 different ID’s of the same kind of chip) using I2C multiplexer. The shown multiplexing scheme is for one drift chamber consisting of 2 wire planes (U,V). The Qweak Region 3 Rotator Drift Chamber #1, #2 Sliding arms, rigid unit with drift chambers The rotator allows to rotate the drift chambers around the beam line.In addition the drift chambers are mounted on sliding arms that allow a radial movement. It would be best to mount the LVDS->ECL converter and the delay line board on the sliding arms (to the left or right of a drift chamber). Drift Chamber #3, #4 Drift chamber front panel with LVDS output connectors Suggested location of converter and delayline boards Some W&M studies with a 16 channel MAD chip based board Front-End Electronics 4 Channel MAD Chip Pulse Generator LVDS OUT C 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 Threshold (common) Preliminary Crosstalk Studies Adjacent Channels: max. 1-2 ppm scaler Charge Sensitivity INFN: 3.77 fC/mV +- 5% W&M: 3.97 fC/mV +- 2% Using small pulses at the rate of 500kHz, tests were performed to determine the useful range of the MAD chip, dependent upon the threshold. A threshold of approximately 8.0-10.0mV is the lower limit before noise overwhelms the system. All inputs were perfomed on Channel 5 with a 1pF SMD capacitor replacing the 0.1uF capacitor. Significant cross talk: 1 or more out of 10.000 input pulses on chan #5 triggered any other channel (with no input)