Electronics

My main research activity is designing and building electronics for a liquid argon calorimeter. This research forms part of the effort to build the electronics for the ATLAS liquid argon calorimeter. Our current activities involve producing the SCA controller in a deep submicron ASIC.

Deep submicron production wafer (0.25-micron CMOS)

Deep submicron production reticle (0.25-micron CMOS)

Deep submicron SCA controller (0.25-micron CMOS)

SCA controller bonding diagram (0.8-micron DMILL)

SCA controller preproduction version (0.8-micron DMILL)

SCA controller prototype second version (0.8-micron DMILL)

SCA controller prototype first version (0.8-micron DMILL)

144x8 dual-ported synchronous RAM using memory points (0.8-micron DMILL)

128x8 dual-ported synchronous RAM using memory points (0.8-micron DMILL)

64x8 dual-ported synchronous RAM using memory points (0.8-micron DMILL)

32x8 dual-ported asynchronous RAM using latches (0.8-micron DMILL)

Second prototype front-end board (designed at Nevis)

First prototype front-end board (designed at Nevis)