XII Front-End Electronics Workshop
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The 2023 Front-end Electronics workshop is the 12th of a series of very productive meetings where the best researchers of the world present the state of the art in the field. The meeting has a strong focus on full custom ASIC design. Technical sessions are geared toward HEP experiments, astrophysics, particle physics, medical imaging, photon science, and CMOS monolithic active pixel sensors. As microsystems have gotten denser, new packaging solution and interposer technologies are required and have a special interest. Also, more experiments require cryogenic electronics, where the front-end is actually installed inside the noble liquid (Ar, Xe) and this opens the door to brand-new challenges such as interposer/ASIC electronic supports, having different thermal expansion coefficients. Circuits with very fast timing capabilties are becoming more and more critical for future applications in the field. The potential impact on front-end ASICs of new technological developments such as silicon photonics, artificial intelligence and quantum technologies is also of interest and will be covered in the talks.
Presentations are by invitation only. A limited number of qualified persons can be admitted upon request to assist to the talk. The workshop is in presence only.
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Welcome and Introduction Lingotto - Aula Magna Politecnico di Torino
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Design and test results of the Timepix4 ASIC 30mSpeaker: Xavier Llopart (CERN)
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Pixel detectors with built-in signal processing and bandwidth efficient data transmission 30mSpeaker: Giovanni Pinaroli (BNL)
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The ATLAS and CMS pixel front-end chips 30mSpeaker: Luca Pacher (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
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Event-driven arbitrated protocols implemented in integrated readout circuits for segmented detectors 30mSpeaker: Dominik Gorni (BNL)
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Front-ends for photon science - 1 Lingotto - Aula Magna Politecnico di Torino
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DynamiX: a charge cancellation ASIC for high rate X-ray measurements with CdZnTe detectors 30mSpeaker: Thomas Gardiner (STFC)
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A digitally integrating charge pump frontend with pipelined digitisation and a flexible event-by-event hit processing for hybrid pixel detectors 30mSpeaker: Michael Ritzert (University of Heidelberg)
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ASICs for high resolution timing applications - 1 Lingotto - Aula Magna Politecnico di Torino
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The FAST ASICs family for high resolution timing applications 30mSpeaker: Nicolo' Cartiglia (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
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The TimeSPOT pixel front-end IC in 28 nm CMOS 30mSpeaker: Adriano Lai (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
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FASTIC+: a general purpose fast readout including one TDC per channel 30mSpeaker: Joan Mauricio (University of Barcelona)
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The ALTIROC and LIROC ASICs for fast timing applications 30mSpeaker: Christophe De la Taille (OMEGA-CNRS/IN2P3)
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Timing circuits for HEP and ultrafast photon science 30mSpeaker: Bojan Markovic (SLAC)
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Novel ADCs and TDCs Lingotto - Aula Magna Politecnico di Torino
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Multiple stage ring oscillator Vernier-based TDC to optimize jitter, power consumption and conversion time 30mSpeaker: Guillaume Théberge-Dupuis (Université de Sherbrooke)
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A 3-step low power, multi-channel TDC based on time residual amplifiers 30mSpeaker: Florent Bouyjou (CEA)
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CMOS sensors - 1 Lingotto - Aula Magna Politecnico di Torino
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MONOLITH: project and results 30mSpeaker: Thanushan Kugathasan (University of Geneva)
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Status of CMOS pixel sensor prototypes for the CEPC vertex detector 30mSpeaker: Ying Zhang (IHEP)
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Development of monolithic sensors for high energy physics in TPSCo 65 nm ISC technology 30mSpeaker: Walter Snoeys (CERN)
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Results for the ARCADIA sensors in 110 nm CMOS technology 30mSpeaker: Lucio Pancheri (University of Trento)
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The ASICs for the CMS outer tracker upgrade 30mSpeaker: Alessandro Caratelli (CERN)
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The DSSC detector for the European XFEL: a soft X-ray Camera with Megaframe capability. System overview and new experimental results with low-noise DEPFET active pixels 30mSpeaker: Matteo Porro (European XFEL)
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BPIX: Pixel Readout Chip Development for the High Energy Photon Source 30mSpeaker: WEI Wei (IHEP)
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Welcome reception 4h
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Invited talks Lingotto - Aula Magna Politecnico di Torino
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Via Nizza 230 - TorinoConvener: Lodovico Ratti (Università di Pavia and INFN)-
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Multiple DC-DC converters for integrated systems 45mSpeaker: Franco Maloberti (University of Pavia)
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Reminiscing through 40 years of CMOS analog circuit design: from audio to GHz 45mSpeaker: Rinaldo Castello (University of Pavia)
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Design methodologies and support Lingotto - Aula Magna Politecnico di Torino
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ASIC design support from CERN 30mSpeaker: Alessandro Caratelli (CERN)
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Highly-Digital Approach Towards FE Design 30mSpeaker: Soumyajit Mandal (BNL)
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CMOS sensors - 2 Lingotto - Aula Magna Politecnico di Torino
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65nm IP development for CMOS sensors at the Electron-Ion Collider 30mSpeaker: Soniya Mathew (STFC)
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ASTRA: a high dynamic range front end embedded with HV monolithic silicon micro-strip sensors 30mSpeaker: Fabio Cossio (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
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Large dynamic range front-ends Lingotto - Aula Magna Politecnico di Torino
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Via Nizza 230 - TorinoConvener: Angelo Rivetti (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)-
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The SLIDER32 front-end chip for X-ray spectrometry and tracking in the GAPS experiment 30mSpeaker: Massimo Manghisoni (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
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The HGCROC for CMS high granularity calorimeter 30mSpeaker: Damien THIENPONT (CNRS/IN2P3/LAL-OMEGA)
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The CATIA large dynamic range preamplifier for the CMS ECAL upgrade 30mSpeaker: Fabrice Guilloux (CEA)
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Cryogenic ASICs Lingotto - Aula Magna Politecnico di Torino
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Cryogenic CMOS in ultra scaled technologies 30mSpeaker: Dennis Nielinger (Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH)
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ASICs for noble liquid detectors 30mSpeaker: Dr Sergio Rescia (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
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Hybrid Cryogenic Detector Architectures for sensing and edge computing enabled by new fabrication processes (HYDRA) 30mSpeaker: Davide Braga (FNAL)
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MIRA: a Low-Noise ASIC with 35 µm pixel for the readout of Microchannel Plates 30mSpeaker: Carlo Ettore Nicola Fiorini (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
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Dealing with DCR in SPADs and SiPMs in CMOS technology: characterization and design perspectives 30mSpeaker: Lodovico Ratti (Università di Pavia and INFN)
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SiPM front-end for CTA 30mSpeaker: Francesco Licciulli (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
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Front-end for hybrid pixel detectors in 28 nm 30mSpeaker: Luigi Gaioni (University of Bergamo)
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Silicon photonics and optical links Lingotto - Aula Magna Politecnico di Torino
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Characterisation and application of a CMOS SPAD sensor for readout of optical fibres 30mSpeaker: Benedict Maisano (University of Heidelberg)
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Towards Silicon Photonics for HEP detectors 30mSpeaker: Fabrizio Palla (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
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Novel material and techniques, quantum and AI Lingotto - Aula Magna Politecnico di Torino
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Via Nizza 230 - TorinoConvener: Zhen'an Liu-
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ANNA: Analog Neural Network ASIC for radiation detectors 30mSpeaker: Susanna Di Giacomo (Polimi)
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Overview of Fermilab's Quantum and AI chip designs 30mSpeaker: Farah Fahim (FNAL)
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Wide band-gap semiconductor sensors and front-ends for harsh environments 30mSpeaker: Tetsuichi KISHISHITA (KEK)
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