Performance of the beetle readout chip for LHCb

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This paper presents the design and first measurements on the version 1.2 of the Beetle chip.The Beetle is a 128 channel pipelined readout chip which is intended for the silicon vertex detector, the inner tracker and the pile-up veto trigger of LHCb. In case of multianode photomultiplier tubes being used for the RICH readout, it is foreseen also to use the Beetle.Section II. gives a short overview of the chip architecture whereas section III. shows first measurements on the Beetle 1.2. In section IV. the results from a Total Ionizing Dose (TID) irradiation test is summarized, while an outlook on further tests given in section V.

Authors: van Bakel, N; van Beuzekom, M; Jans, E; Klous, S; Verkooijen, H

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: PROCEEDINGS OF THE EIGHTH WORKSHOP ON ELECTRONICS FOR LHC EXPERIMENTS
• Volume: 2002
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 121-124
• Publication date: 2002-01-01
• Event title: 8th Workshop on Electronics for LHC Experiments
• ISSN: 0007-8328
• ISBN: 9290832029