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@ARTICLE{Schwab:616219,
author = {Schwab, B. and Zink, A. and Varner, Gary and Depaoli, D.
and Hinton, J. and Liu, G. and Okumura, A. and Ross, D. and
Schäfer, J. and Schoorlemmer, H. and Tajima, H. and
Vandenbroucke, J. and White, Richard and Watson, Jason John
and Zorn, Justus and Funk, Stefan},
title = {{CTC} and {CT}5{TEA}: {A}n advanced multi-channel digitizer
and trigger {ASIC} for imaging atmospheric {C}herenkov
telescopes},
journal = {Nuclear instruments $\&$ methods in physics research /
Section A},
volume = {1069},
issn = {0168-9002},
address = {Amsterdam},
publisher = {North-Holland Publ. Co.},
reportid = {PUBDB-2024-06379, arXiv:2409.06435. arXiv:2409.06435},
pages = {169841},
year = {2024},
note = {18 pages, 26 figures, 1 table},
abstract = {We have developed a new set of Application-Specific
Integrated Circuits (ASICs) of the TARGET family (CTC and
CT5TEA), designed for the readout of signals from
photosensors in cameras of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov
Telescopes (IACTs) for ground-based gamma-ray astronomy. We
present the performance and design details. Both ASICs
feature 16 channels, with CTC being a Switched-Capacitor
Array (SCA) sampler at 0.5 to 1GSa/s with a 16,384 sample
deep storage buffer, including the functionality to digitize
full waveforms at arbitrary times. CT5TEA is its companion
trigger ASIC (though may be used on its own), which provides
trigger information for the analog sum of four (and 16)
adjacent channels. Since sampling and triggering takes place
in two separate ASICs, the noise due to interference from
the SCA is suppressed, and allows a minimal trigger
threshold of ≤ 2.5 mV (0.74photo electrons (p.e.)) with a
trigger noise of ≤ 0.5 mV (0.15p.e.). For CTC, a maximal
input voltage range from −0.5V up to 1.7V is achieved with
an effective bit range of > 11.6bits and a baseline noise of
0.7 mV. The cross-talk improved to ≤ $1\%$ over the whole
−3 dB bandwidth of 220MHz and even down to $0.2\%$ for
1.5V pulses of 10 ns width. Not only is the performance
presented, but a temperature-stable calibration routine for
pulse mode operation is introduced and validated. The
resolution is found to be ∼ $2.5\%$ at 33.7 mV (10p.e.)
and ≤ $0.3\%$ at 337 mV (100p.e.) with an integrated
non-linearity of < 1.6mV. Developed for the Small-Sized
Telescope (SST) and Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope (SCT)
cameras of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO),
CTC and CT5TEA are deployed for both prototypes and shall be
integrated into the final versions.},
keywords = {0000 (autogen) / 1111 (autogen) / Data acquisition circuits
(autogen) / Trigger concepts and systems (hardware and
software) (autogen) / Gamma telescopes (autogen) / Imaging
air Cherenkov telescope (autogen) / Camera electronics
(autogen)},
cin = {$Z_CTA$},
ddc = {530},
cid = {$I:(DE-H253)Z_CTA-20210408$},
pnm = {613 - Matter and Radiation from the Universe (POF4-613)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-613},
experiment = {EXP:(DE-H253)CTA-20150101},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
eprint = {2409.06435},
howpublished = {arXiv:2409.06435},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
SLACcitation = {$\%\%CITATION$ = $arXiv:2409.06435;\%\%$},
UT = {WOS:001318607100001},
doi = {10.1016/j.nima.2024.169841},
url = {https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/616219},
}