Abstract
The paper describes a comprehensive readout electronics system for X-ray imaging using gas-filled detectors to be used at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF). The front-end electronics (named BLADE3) relies on a multi-strips binary parallel readout architecture. BLADE3 features 256 channels in a small space (120×300 mm 2 printed circuit board) at low power (12 mW per channel for the analog processing). It is based on a 16-channel preamplifier-discriminator ASIC (named ASG217) of the trans-impedance type. The ASG217 measured gain (220 kΩ), peaking time (15 ns), and RMS noise (1.5 mV+0.1 mV/pF) well match the simulated results. Front-end boards communicate with the back-end electronics using 2 Gb/s optical links. The back-end electronics has been implemented in the CompactPCI format and can be operated through a PCI bridge by any host computer. The experience gained with a prototype detector indicates that the front-end electronics meets our requirements. The back-end electronics, already operational for one-dimensional readout, has to be significantly improved for supporting two-dimensional imaging at high photon flux.
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