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Triroc 1A

All-in-one SiPM read-out for multimodal PET inserts

Description

Triroc 1A is a 64-channel front-end ASIC designed to readout silicon photomultipliers (SiPM) with both polarities for particle time-of-flight measurement applications. Triroc 1A combines a very fast and low-jitter trigger with accurate charge and time measurements. Energy and time are digitized internally with a 10-bit ADC and 30ps-bin TDC.
The concept of the ASIC is to combine two measurement lines that won’t interfere one with each other to measure both first incident photon timing measurement and whole crystal light charge integration.
An adjustment of the SiPM high voltage is possible using a channel-by-channel input DAC. It allows a fine SiPM gain and dark noise adjustment at the system level to correct for the non-uniformity of SiPMs.
The power consumption is 10 mW/channel, excluding buffers used to output the signals. The main application of Triroc 1A is PET time-of-flight but it can also be used for any application that requires both accurate time resolution and precise energy measurement. Triroc is available in  BGA packaging (12x12mm, 353 balls).

Parameters

ParametersValue
TRLTechnology Readiness Level 6 - Application prototype available
Available versions

- Tricroc 1A

Detector Read-Out SiPM, SiPM array
Number of Channel64
Signal Polarity Positive, Negative
SensitivityTrigger on first photo-electron
Timing Resolution 88ps RMS
Dynamic Range3000 photoelectrons (106 SIPM gain), Integral Non Linearity : 1% up to 2000 photoelectrons
Packaging & Dimension

- TFBGA353 12x12mm

Power Consumption Power supply : 3.3V,10mW/ch
Inputs 64 voltage inputs DC adjustment for SiPM HV tuning
Outputs

- Digital output (energy on 10-bit, time on 10-bit 100ps bin)

- 1 multiplexed time trigger output

- 2 ASIC trigger OR outpust (64 channels, 2 levels)

Internal Programmable Features

- 64 HV adjustment for SiPM (64X8bits)

- trigger threshold adjustment (10bits)

- charge measurement tuning

- ADC Track & Hold/Peak Sensing

- 64 trigger masks

- internal temperature sensor

- channel by channel output enable

- trigger latch

- power pulsing

Evaluation systems

- Evaluation board : 64 channels - available

Diagram

  • European Psychiatry
  • 2018-05-31, Journal article - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpsy.2017.11.007 TRIMAGE: A dedicated trimodality (PET/MR/EEG) imaging tool for schizophrenia
  • 3rd Technology and Instrumentation in Particle Physics Conference, TIPP 2014
  • 2014-06-02, Conference paper - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85011589268&partnerID=MN8TOARS Triroc: 64-channel SiPM read-out ASIC for PET/PET-ToF application
  • IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
  • 2015-05-01, Journal article - https://doi.org/10.1109/tns.2015.2397973 Triroc: A Multi-Channel SiPM Read-Out ASIC for PET/PET-ToF Application
  • 2016 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, Medical Imaging Conference and Room-Temperature Semiconductor
  • 2016-07-02, Conference paper - https://doi.org/10.1109/nssmic.2016.8069882 Triroc, a versatile 64-channel SiPM readout ASIC for time-of-flight PET

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    triroc@weeroc.com

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