Interleaved Readout of Charge-Coupled Devices (CCDs) for Correlated Noise Reduction

Moroni, Guillermo Fernández; Chierchie, Fernando; Stefanazzi, Leandro; Paolini, Eduardo E.; Sofo-Haro, Miguel; Cancelo, Gustavo; Tiffenberg, J.; Estrada, J.

doi:10.1109/tim.2020.2980461

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“…There are also other types of non-destructive imaging sensors [6,7]. A specific readout electronics system, the low-threshold acquisition controller (LTA), was designed to control and process [8,9] the Skipper-CCD signals [10]. This system has achieved the best performance with the sensor, but due to its fully digital, high-speed video signal sampling and processing, its architecture could not be easily extended for experiments that feature kilograms of Skipper-CCDs with thousands of video channels as sensitive mass.…”

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Multiplexed Readout for an Experiment with a Large Number of Channels Using Single-Electron Sensitivity Skipper-CCDs

Chavez

Chierchie

Sofo-Haro

et al. 2022

Sensors

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This paper presents the implementation of a multiplexed analog readout electronics system that can achieve single-electron counting using Skipper-CCDs with non-destructive readout. The proposed system allows the best performance of the sensors to be maintained, with sub-electron noise-level operation, while maintaining low-bandwidth data transfer, a minimum number of analog-to-digital converters (ADC) and low disk storage requirement with zero added multiplexing time, even for the simultaneous operation of thousands of channels. These features are possible with a combination of analog charge pile-up, sample and hold circuits and analog multiplexing. The implementation also aims to use the minimum number of components in circuits to keep compatibility with high-channel-density experiments using Skipper-CCDs for low-threshold particle detection applications. Performance details and experimental results using a sensor with 16 output stages are presented along with a review of the circuit design considerations.

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Multiplexed Readout for an Experiment with a Large Number of Channels Using Single-Electron Sensitivity Skipper-CCDs

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Sensors

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“…detection-related noise analysis has been described in great detail, including detection-semiconductor material noise, transmission line noise, readout circuit noise and other aspects [25][26][27]. So, this paper will mainly focus on the features of the proposed circuit structure and the timing sequence control, as well as the improvement of the linearity.…”

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A serial-timing multi-channel CMOS charge readout ASIC for X-ray detectors

Wang

Qin

Wang

et al. 2021

IEICE Electron. Express

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This paper presents a serial multi-channel front-end readout ASIC with a novel architecture and timing control scheme, for the application of flat-panel X-ray, linear detectors and other similar fields. The proposed architecture features the single multi-range selectable integrator, two multiplexed correlated double sampling (CDS) circuits, and the differential buffer output. With the proposed sequential timing control, each channel can output data to the corresponding CDS circuit with no delay when the integration state is ended. So, the channel circuit is simplified. In addition, the proposed architecture and timing control scheme enables the readout ASICs to be cascaded for more channels with tunable conversion rates. To verify the proposed architecture and timing control scheme, a 32-channel readout ASIC was fabricated in TSMC 250nm mixed CMOS signal process. The die size is 2.8 x 2mm 2 . At room temperature, the measured equivalent input noise (EIN) is 25ppm of full-scale value (FSR) with an integration range of 12pC. The measured integral non-linearity is less than 0.04%, and the average power consumption is 2mW per channel. When four ASICs are cascaded, 128 channels are achieved, and a conversion rate over than 30kS/s is measured.

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Real-Time Digital Baseline Restoration for CCD Sensors With Implementation in FPGA

Feng,

Zhang,

Chen

et al. 2024

IEEE Sensors J.

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Interleaved Readout of Charge-Coupled Devices (CCDs) for Correlated Noise Reduction

Cited by 5 publications

References 17 publications

Multiplexed Readout for an Experiment with a Large Number of Channels Using Single-Electron Sensitivity Skipper-CCDs

Multiplexed Readout for an Experiment with a Large Number of Channels Using Single-Electron Sensitivity Skipper-CCDs

A serial-timing multi-channel CMOS charge readout ASIC for X-ray detectors

Real-Time Digital Baseline Restoration for CCD Sensors With Implementation in FPGA

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