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Title A simulator for Timepix-like pixel front-ends
Author(s) Sune, R Ballabriga (CERN) ; Bromberger, H (DESY) ; Campbell, M (CERN) ; Cudie, X Llopart (CERN) ; Christodoulou, P (CERN ; IEAP CTU, Prague) ; Sriskaran, V (CERN) ; Tlustos, L (CERN ; IEAP CTU, Prague)
Publication 2024
Number of pages 8
In: JINST 19 (2024) C03022
In: 16th Topical Seminar on Innovative Particle and Radiation Detectors, Siena, Italy, 25 - 29 Sep 2023, pp.C03022
DOI 10.1088/1748-0221/19/03/C03022
Subject category Detectors and Experimental Techniques
Abstract This work presents the development of a front-end simulation code for the Timepix3 readout chip [1], intended as digitizer stage in full detector simulation. The front-end electronics is modelled using an integrator stage and 3 parallel feedback loops with individually configurable time constants. The main feedback discharging the integrator consists of 3 low-pass filtered feedback loops. The leakage current compensation is approximated by an additional independent low-pass filtered feed-back loop. The system noise is modelled using independent bandwidth limited noise channels for pre-amplifier, feedback and threshold noise. The Timepix3 time of arrival (ToA) and time over threshold (ToT) measurement is implemented by a discriminator model with independent rise and fall times and 2 independent clock frequencies for ToA and ToT. The measured dependence of the ToT on the pre-amplifier input charge using test-pulses of a Timepix3 assembly is correctly reproduced for a wide range of discriminator settings.
Copyright/License publication: © 2024 The Author(s) (License: CC-BY-4.0)

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