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Article
Report number	arXiv:1509.06636
Title	Characterization of a Serializer ASIC chip for the upgrade of the ATLAS muon detector
Author(s)	Wang, Jinhong (Michigan U.) ; Guan, Liang (Michigan U.) ; Sang, Ziru (Michigan U.) ; Chapman, J.W. (Michigan U.) ; Dai, Tiesheng (Michigan U.) ; Zhou, Bing (Michigan U.) ; Zhu, Junjie (Michigan U.)
Publication	2015
Imprint	20 Sep 2015
Number of pages	7
Note	Comments: 7 pages, 8 figures, accepted by IEEE-Transactions on Nuclear Science
In:	IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. 62 (2015) 3242-3248
DOI	10.1109/TNS.2015.2480855
Subject category	Detectors and Experimental Techniques
Accelerator/Facility, Experiment	CERN LHC ; ATLAS
Abstract	We report on the design of a serializer ASIC to be used in the ATLAS forward muon detector for trigger data transmission. We discuss the performance of a prototype chip covering power dissipation, latency and stable operating line rate. Tests show that the serializer is capable of running at least at 5.76 Gbps with a bit error ratio below 1x10^{-15}, and a power consumption of 200 mW running at 4.8 Gbps. The latency between the start of loading 30 bits into the serializer to the transmission of the first bit from the serializer is measured to be about 6 ns.
Copyright/License	arXiv nonexclusive-distrib. 1.0

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