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HK: Fachverband Physik der Hadronen und Kerne

HK 47: Instrumentation und Anwendungen II

HK 47.5: Talk

Friday, March 14, 2008, 15:00–15:15, 2D

n-XYTER on a Prototype Front End Board for CBM — •Rafal Lalik and Christian Schmidt for the CBM collaboration — Gesellschaft fuer Schwerionenforschung mbH, Plankstrasse 1, 64291

The CBM experiment of FAIR does state considerable development challenges in the wide fields of detector technology, front-end electronics, FPGA based data acquisition as well as data compression logic. On various elements of this readout chain, first development efforts have started.

The n-XYTER ASIC chip is a modern readout system to work with particle detectors. It will here be employed as a first prototype for the dedicated readout ASIC to be developed for FAIR. High integration and small size comprise a big challenge for the PCB designer. Placing the chip, routing fan-in connections with very thin tracks and simultaneously caring about controlled impedances and input capacitances require from the designer to employ PCB-technology on its cutting edge. A prototype front-end board for the n-XYTER ASIC intended for the broad application in CBM detector prototyping will be presented.