The water Cherenkov detector array(WCDA) is an important part of the large high-altitude air shower observatory(LHAASO),which is in a research and development phase.The central scientific goal of LHAASO is to explore ...The water Cherenkov detector array(WCDA) is an important part of the large high-altitude air shower observatory(LHAASO),which is in a research and development phase.The central scientific goal of LHAASO is to explore the origin of high-energy cosmic rays of the universe and to push forward the frontier of new physics.To simplify the WCDA's readout electronics,a prototype of a front-end readout for an application-specific integrated circuit(ASIC) is designed based on the timeover-threshold method to achieve charge-to-time conversion.High-precision time measurement and charge measurement are necessary over a full dynamic range[1-4000photoelectrons(P.E.)].To evaluate the performance of this ASIC,a test system is designed that includes the front-end ASIC test module,digitization module,and test software.The first module needs to be customized for different ASIC versions,whereas the digitization module and test software are tested for general-purpose use.In the digitization module,a field programmable gate array-based time-todigital converter is designed with a bin size of 333 ps,which also integrates an inter-integrated circuit to configure the ASIC test module,and a universal serial bus interface is designed to transfer data to the remote computer.Test results indicate that the time resolution is better than 0.5 ns,and the charge resolution is better than 30%root mean square(RMS) at 1 P.E.and 3%RMS at 4000 P.E.,which are beyond the application requirements.展开更多
Glaucoma is a neurodegenerative condition that is the leading cause of irreversible blindness worldwide. Elevated intraocular pressure (IOP) is the main risk factor for the development and progression of the disease. ...Glaucoma is a neurodegenerative condition that is the leading cause of irreversible blindness worldwide. Elevated intraocular pressure (IOP) is the main risk factor for the development and progression of the disease. Methods to lower IOP remain the first line treatments for the condition. Current methods of IOP measurement do not permit temporary noninvasive monitoring 24-hour IOP on a periodic basis. Ongoing research will in time provide a means of developing a device that will enable continuous or temporary monitoring of IOP. At present a device suitable for clinical use is not yet available.This review contains a description of different devices currently in development for measuring IOP: soft contact lens, LC resonant circuits and on-chip sensing devices. All of them use application-specific integrated circuits (ASICS) to process the measured signals and send them to recording devices. Soft contact lens devices are based on an embedded strain gauge, LC circuits vary their resonance frequency depending on the intraocular pressure (IOP) and, finally, on-chip sensing devices include an integrated microelectromechanical sensor (MEMS). MEMS are capacitors whose capacity varies with IOP. These devices allow for an accurate IOP measurement (up to +/– 0.2 mm Hg) with high sampling rates (up to 1 sample/min) and storing 1 week of raw data. All of them operate in an autonomous way and even some of them are energetically independent.展开更多
The SubBytes (S-box) transformation is the most crucial operation in the AES algorithm, significantly impacting the implementation performance of AES chips. To design a high-performance S-box, a segmented optimization...The SubBytes (S-box) transformation is the most crucial operation in the AES algorithm, significantly impacting the implementation performance of AES chips. To design a high-performance S-box, a segmented optimization implementation of the S-box is proposed based on the composite field inverse operation in this paper. This proposed S-box implementation is modeled using Verilog language and synthesized using Design Complier software under the premise of ensuring the correctness of the simulation result. The synthesis results show that, compared to several current S-box implementation schemes, the proposed implementation of the S-box significantly reduces the area overhead and critical path delay, then gets higher hardware efficiency. This provides strong support for realizing efficient and compact S-box ASIC designs.展开更多
As the traditional RISC+ASIC/ASSP approach for network processor design can not meet the today’s requirements, this paper described an alternate approach, Reconfigurable Processing Architecture, to boost the performa...As the traditional RISC+ASIC/ASSP approach for network processor design can not meet the today’s requirements, this paper described an alternate approach, Reconfigurable Processing Architecture, to boost the performance to ASIC level while reserve the programmability of the traditional RISC based system. This paper covers both the hardware architecture and the software development environment architecture.展开更多
A CMOS front-end integrated circuit consisting of 16 identical analog channels is proposed for semiconductor radiation detectors. Each of the 16 channels has a low noise charge sensitive amplifier, a pulse shaper, a p...A CMOS front-end integrated circuit consisting of 16 identical analog channels is proposed for semiconductor radiation detectors. Each of the 16 channels has a low noise charge sensitive amplifier, a pulse shaper, a peak detect and hold circuit and a discriminator, while analog voltage and channel address are routed off the chip. It can accommodate both electron and hole collection with selectable gain and peaking time. Sequential and sparse readout, combining with self-trigger and external trigger, makes four readout modes. The circuit is implemented in a 0.35 μm DP4M (double-poly-quad-metal) CMOS technology with an area of 2.5×1.54 mm2 and power dissipation of 60 mW. A single channel chip is tested with Verigy 93000. The gain is adjustable from 13 to 130 mV·fC–1 while the peaking time varies between 0.7 and 1.6 μs. The linearity is more than 99% and the equivalent noise charge is about 600e.展开更多
A readout electronics has been developed for the silicon strip array detector system of HIRFL-CSR-ETF.It consists of 48 front end electronics(FEE)boards,12 PXI-DAQ boards and one trigger board.It can implement energy ...A readout electronics has been developed for the silicon strip array detector system of HIRFL-CSR-ETF.It consists of 48 front end electronics(FEE)boards,12 PXI-DAQ boards and one trigger board.It can implement energy and time measurements of 4608 channels.Each FEE board is based on 6 ASICs(ATHED),which implements energy and time measurements of 96 channels.The PXI-DAQ board meets requirements of high-speed counting and amount of readout channels and can process signals of 4 FEEs.The trigger board is developed to select the valid events.The energy linearity of the readout electronics is better than 0.3%in the dynamic range of 0.1-0.7V.In the test with a standard triple alpha source,the energy resolution was 1.8%at 5.48 MeV.This readout electronics enables the silicon strip array system to identify particles of A<14.展开更多
This paper will provide some insights on the application of Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) in process tomography. The focus of this paper will be to investigate the performance of the technology with respect to ...This paper will provide some insights on the application of Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) in process tomography. The focus of this paper will be to investigate the performance of the technology with respect to various tomography systems and comparison to other similar technologies including the Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) and the microcontroller. Fundamentally, the FPGA is primarily used in the Data Acquisition System (DAQ) due to its better performance and better trade-off as compared to competitor technologies. However, the drawback of using FPGA is that it is relatively more expensive.展开更多
随着工业技术的进步,高温高动态压力传感器的应用需求显著增加。提出一种集成专用补偿电路的高动态硅压阻式微电子机械系统(Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems,MEMS)压力传感器,进行压力敏感芯片的结构设计和加工工艺设计,并对压力传感...随着工业技术的进步,高温高动态压力传感器的应用需求显著增加。提出一种集成专用补偿电路的高动态硅压阻式微电子机械系统(Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems,MEMS)压力传感器,进行压力敏感芯片的结构设计和加工工艺设计,并对压力传感器进行封装和温度补偿电路设计。多层绝缘体上硅(Silicon On Insulator,SOI)材料能够使传感器在高温环境下正常工作。无引线的封装方式可有效提升传感器的频响性能。传感器后端集成了桥阻式专用集成电路(Application Specific Integrated Circuits,ASIC),能够显著减小传感器的体积,同时提升传感器整体性能。该MEMS传感器通过自动压力测试系统进行性能试验,结果表明MEMS压力传感器经过补偿后能够实现较高的线性度、稳定的零点输出特性以及理想的动态输出特性。展开更多
为解决里所(Reed-solomon,RS)编码的低功耗设计,从系统架构、RTL级、门级等不同设计层级进行分析,并在专用集成电路(Application specific integrated circuit,ASIC)设计中加以实践。基于低功耗设计将前端RTL级设计与后端IC设计结合起来...为解决里所(Reed-solomon,RS)编码的低功耗设计,从系统架构、RTL级、门级等不同设计层级进行分析,并在专用集成电路(Application specific integrated circuit,ASIC)设计中加以实践。基于低功耗设计将前端RTL级设计与后端IC设计结合起来,研究能实现RS编码功能的芯片。在系统架构层,针对RS编码算法中伽罗华域的乘法运算在硬件实现时存在数据运算量大、消耗功耗大等问题,提出基于乘法器因子矩阵的方法对RS编码算法进行优化,通过将乘法运算转化为减法运算等方式减少数据运算量,从而降低功耗。在RTL级和门级层面,分别在逻辑综合和后端实现中加以约束来实现低功耗设计,总体功耗可以降低60%左右。解决了因IC芯片功耗过高导致芯片性能下降,从而影响芯片正常工作等问题,为集成电路工艺提供了新的发展方向。展开更多
基金supported by the Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(KJCX2-YW-N27)the CAS Center for Excellence in Particle Physics(CCEPP)
文摘The water Cherenkov detector array(WCDA) is an important part of the large high-altitude air shower observatory(LHAASO),which is in a research and development phase.The central scientific goal of LHAASO is to explore the origin of high-energy cosmic rays of the universe and to push forward the frontier of new physics.To simplify the WCDA's readout electronics,a prototype of a front-end readout for an application-specific integrated circuit(ASIC) is designed based on the timeover-threshold method to achieve charge-to-time conversion.High-precision time measurement and charge measurement are necessary over a full dynamic range[1-4000photoelectrons(P.E.)].To evaluate the performance of this ASIC,a test system is designed that includes the front-end ASIC test module,digitization module,and test software.The first module needs to be customized for different ASIC versions,whereas the digitization module and test software are tested for general-purpose use.In the digitization module,a field programmable gate array-based time-todigital converter is designed with a bin size of 333 ps,which also integrates an inter-integrated circuit to configure the ASIC test module,and a universal serial bus interface is designed to transfer data to the remote computer.Test results indicate that the time resolution is better than 0.5 ns,and the charge resolution is better than 30%root mean square(RMS) at 1 P.E.and 3%RMS at 4000 P.E.,which are beyond the application requirements.
文摘Glaucoma is a neurodegenerative condition that is the leading cause of irreversible blindness worldwide. Elevated intraocular pressure (IOP) is the main risk factor for the development and progression of the disease. Methods to lower IOP remain the first line treatments for the condition. Current methods of IOP measurement do not permit temporary noninvasive monitoring 24-hour IOP on a periodic basis. Ongoing research will in time provide a means of developing a device that will enable continuous or temporary monitoring of IOP. At present a device suitable for clinical use is not yet available.This review contains a description of different devices currently in development for measuring IOP: soft contact lens, LC resonant circuits and on-chip sensing devices. All of them use application-specific integrated circuits (ASICS) to process the measured signals and send them to recording devices. Soft contact lens devices are based on an embedded strain gauge, LC circuits vary their resonance frequency depending on the intraocular pressure (IOP) and, finally, on-chip sensing devices include an integrated microelectromechanical sensor (MEMS). MEMS are capacitors whose capacity varies with IOP. These devices allow for an accurate IOP measurement (up to +/– 0.2 mm Hg) with high sampling rates (up to 1 sample/min) and storing 1 week of raw data. All of them operate in an autonomous way and even some of them are energetically independent.
文摘The SubBytes (S-box) transformation is the most crucial operation in the AES algorithm, significantly impacting the implementation performance of AES chips. To design a high-performance S-box, a segmented optimization implementation of the S-box is proposed based on the composite field inverse operation in this paper. This proposed S-box implementation is modeled using Verilog language and synthesized using Design Complier software under the premise of ensuring the correctness of the simulation result. The synthesis results show that, compared to several current S-box implementation schemes, the proposed implementation of the S-box significantly reduces the area overhead and critical path delay, then gets higher hardware efficiency. This provides strong support for realizing efficient and compact S-box ASIC designs.
文摘As the traditional RISC+ASIC/ASSP approach for network processor design can not meet the today’s requirements, this paper described an alternate approach, Reconfigurable Processing Architecture, to boost the performance to ASIC level while reserve the programmability of the traditional RISC based system. This paper covers both the hardware architecture and the software development environment architecture.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.40704025)
文摘A CMOS front-end integrated circuit consisting of 16 identical analog channels is proposed for semiconductor radiation detectors. Each of the 16 channels has a low noise charge sensitive amplifier, a pulse shaper, a peak detect and hold circuit and a discriminator, while analog voltage and channel address are routed off the chip. It can accommodate both electron and hole collection with selectable gain and peaking time. Sequential and sparse readout, combining with self-trigger and external trigger, makes four readout modes. The circuit is implemented in a 0.35 μm DP4M (double-poly-quad-metal) CMOS technology with an area of 2.5×1.54 mm2 and power dissipation of 60 mW. A single channel chip is tested with Verigy 93000. The gain is adjustable from 13 to 130 mV·fC–1 while the peaking time varies between 0.7 and 1.6 μs. The linearity is more than 99% and the equivalent noise charge is about 600e.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.11005135 and 11079045)the Important Direction Project of the CAS Knowledge Innovation Program(No.KJCX2-YW-N27)the Foundation of director of Institute Modern Physics,CAS(No.Y207170SZ0)
文摘A readout electronics has been developed for the silicon strip array detector system of HIRFL-CSR-ETF.It consists of 48 front end electronics(FEE)boards,12 PXI-DAQ boards and one trigger board.It can implement energy and time measurements of 4608 channels.Each FEE board is based on 6 ASICs(ATHED),which implements energy and time measurements of 96 channels.The PXI-DAQ board meets requirements of high-speed counting and amount of readout channels and can process signals of 4 FEEs.The trigger board is developed to select the valid events.The energy linearity of the readout electronics is better than 0.3%in the dynamic range of 0.1-0.7V.In the test with a standard triple alpha source,the energy resolution was 1.8%at 5.48 MeV.This readout electronics enables the silicon strip array system to identify particles of A<14.
文摘This paper will provide some insights on the application of Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) in process tomography. The focus of this paper will be to investigate the performance of the technology with respect to various tomography systems and comparison to other similar technologies including the Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) and the microcontroller. Fundamentally, the FPGA is primarily used in the Data Acquisition System (DAQ) due to its better performance and better trade-off as compared to competitor technologies. However, the drawback of using FPGA is that it is relatively more expensive.
文摘随着工业技术的进步,高温高动态压力传感器的应用需求显著增加。提出一种集成专用补偿电路的高动态硅压阻式微电子机械系统(Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems,MEMS)压力传感器,进行压力敏感芯片的结构设计和加工工艺设计,并对压力传感器进行封装和温度补偿电路设计。多层绝缘体上硅(Silicon On Insulator,SOI)材料能够使传感器在高温环境下正常工作。无引线的封装方式可有效提升传感器的频响性能。传感器后端集成了桥阻式专用集成电路(Application Specific Integrated Circuits,ASIC),能够显著减小传感器的体积,同时提升传感器整体性能。该MEMS传感器通过自动压力测试系统进行性能试验,结果表明MEMS压力传感器经过补偿后能够实现较高的线性度、稳定的零点输出特性以及理想的动态输出特性。
文摘为解决里所(Reed-solomon,RS)编码的低功耗设计,从系统架构、RTL级、门级等不同设计层级进行分析,并在专用集成电路(Application specific integrated circuit,ASIC)设计中加以实践。基于低功耗设计将前端RTL级设计与后端IC设计结合起来,研究能实现RS编码功能的芯片。在系统架构层,针对RS编码算法中伽罗华域的乘法运算在硬件实现时存在数据运算量大、消耗功耗大等问题,提出基于乘法器因子矩阵的方法对RS编码算法进行优化,通过将乘法运算转化为减法运算等方式减少数据运算量,从而降低功耗。在RTL级和门级层面,分别在逻辑综合和后端实现中加以约束来实现低功耗设计,总体功耗可以降低60%左右。解决了因IC芯片功耗过高导致芯片性能下降,从而影响芯片正常工作等问题,为集成电路工艺提供了新的发展方向。
