Abstract
Recent field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) based on flash memories offer a high radiation tolerance. We discuss potential applications of the Microsemi IGLOO2 FPGAs in high energy experiments. We implement a 24 channel time-to-digital converter with a time binning of 0.78 ns and evaluate the performance. Differential and integral non-linearity is measured to be far below the time binning. The time resolution obtained is approximately 0.25 ns. The FPGA was exposed to gamma rays with a total ionizing dose of 300 Gy. The function of the configuration memory is monitored and the degradation of the performance on the ring oscillator and high-speed transceiver is measured. The errors during firmware download and verification of downloaded firmware have been observed at 110–120 Gy and 80–90 Gy, respectively. The functionality of the ring oscillator and high-speed transceiver remains up to about 200 Gy.
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