CERN Accelerating science

ATLAS Note
Report number	ATL-INDET-2002-002
Title	MCC: the Module Controller Chip for the ATLAS Pixel Detector.
Author(s)	Beccherle, R (INFN, Genoa ; Genoa U.) ; Blanquart, L (LBL, Berkeley ; UC, Berkeley) ; Boyd, R (Oklahoma U.) ; Calvet, D (Clermont-Ferrand U.) ; Comes, G (Bonn U.) ; Darbo, G (INFN, Genoa ; Genoa U.) ; Einsweiler, K F (LBL, Berkeley ; UC, Berkeley) ; Fischer, P (Bonn U.) ; Gagliardi, G (INFN, Genoa ; Genoa U.) ; Gemme, C (INFN, Genoa ; Genoa U.) ; Meddeler, G (LBL, Berkeley ; UC, Berkeley) ; Morettini, P (INFN, Genoa ; Genoa U.) ; Musico, P (INFN, Genoa ; Genoa U.) ; Osculati, B (INFN, Genoa ; Genoa U.) ; Oppizzi, P (INFN, Genoa ; Genoa U.) ; Pratolongo, F (INFN, Genoa ; Genoa U.) ; Richardson, J (LBL, Berkeley ; UC, Berkeley) ; Ruscino, E (INFN, Genoa ; Genoa U.) ; Schiavi, C (INFN, Genoa ; Genoa U.) ; Sícho, P (Prague, Inst. Phys.) ; Vernocchi, F (INFN, Genoa ; Genoa U.)
Publication	2002
Imprint	29 Mar 2002
Number of pages	26
In:	Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res., A 492 (2002) 117-133
DOI	10.1016/S0168-9002(02)01279-2
Subject category	Detectors and Experimental Techniques
Accelerator/Facility, Experiment	CERN LHC ; ATLAS
Free keywords	ATLAS ; Module Controller Chip ; Pixel Detector ; rad-hard ; read-out
Abstract	In this article we describe the architecture of the Module Controller Chip for the ATLAS Pixel Detector. The project started in 1997 with the definition of the system specifications. A first fully-working rad-soft prototype was designed in 1998, while a radiation hard version was submitted in 2000. The 1998 version was used to build pixel detector modules. Results from those modules and from the simulated performance in ATLAS are reported. In the article we also describe the hardware/software tools developed to test the MCC performance at the LHC event rate.
Copyright/License	Preprint: (License: CC-BY-4.0)

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