VeloPix: the pixel ASIC Lfor the LHCb upgrade
: Poikela T, De Gaspari M, Plosila J, Westerlund T, Ballabriga R, Buytaert J, Campbell M, Llopart X, Wyllie K, Gromov V, van Beuzekom M, Zivkovic V
Publisher: IOP Publishing LTD
: 2015
: Journal of Instrumentation
: JOURNAL OF INSTRUMENTATION
: J Instrum
: ARTN C01057
: 10
: 10
: 1748-0221
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/10/01/C01057
VeloPix is a binary pixel readout chip with a data driven readout, designed in 130 nm CMOS technology. The pixels are combined into groups of 2 x 4 super pixels, enabling a shared logic and a reduction of bandwidth due to combined address and time stamp information. The pixel hits are combined with other simultaneous hits in the same super pixel, time stamped, and immediately driven off-chip. The analog front-end must be sufficiently fast to accurately time stamp the data, with a small enough dead time to minimize data loss in the most occupied regions of the chip. The data is driven off chip with a custom designed high speed serialiser. The current status of the ASIC design, the chip architecture and the simulations will be described.