Single event effect hardness for the front-end ASICs in the DAMPE satellite BGO calorimeter

Shan-Shan Gao; Di Jiang; Chang-Qing Feng; Kai Xi; Shu-Bin Liu; Qi An

doi:10.1088/1674-1137/40/1/016102

Chinese Physics C> 2016, Vol. 40> Issue(1) : 016102 DOI: 10.1088/1674-1137/40/1/016102

Single event effect hardness for the front-end ASICs in the DAMPE satellite BGO calorimeter

Shan-Shan Gao ^1,2,, ,
Di Jiang ^1,2 ,
Chang-Qing Feng ^1,2,, ,
Kai Xi ³ ,
Shu-Bin Liu ^1,2 ,
Qi An ^1,2

1.
State Key Laboratory of Particle Detection and Electronics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
2.
Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
3.
Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China

Abstract
HTML
Reference
Related

PDF

Abstract：
The Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) is a Chinese scientific satellite designed for cosmic ray studies with a primary scientific goal of indirect detection of dark matter particles. As a crucial sub-detector, the BGO calorimeter measures the energy spectrum of cosmic rays in the energy range from 5 GeV to 10 TeV. In order to implement high-density front-end electronics (FEE) with the ability to measure 1848 signals from 616 photomultiplier tubes on the strictly constrained satellite platform, two kinds of 32-channel front-end ASICs, VA160 and VATA160, are customized. However, a space mission period of more than 3 years makes single event effects (SEEs) become threats to reliability. In order to evaluate SEE sensitivities of these chips and verify the effectiveness of mitigation methods, a series of laser-induced and heavy ion-induced SEE tests were performed. Benefiting from the single event latch-up (SEL) protection circuit for power supply, the triple module redundancy (TMR) technology for the configuration registers and the optimized sequential design for the data acquisition process, 52 VA160 chips and 32 VATA160 chips have been applied in the flight model of the BGO calorimeter with radiation hardness assurance.
- space electronics ,
- single event effects ,
- radiation hardness ,
- heavy ion ,
- pulsed laser

References

[1]	J. Chang, J. H. Adams, H. S. Ahn et al, Nature, 456: 362-365 (2008)
[2]	Y. L. Zhang, B. Li, C. Q. Feng et al, Chin. Phys. C, 36: 71-73 (2012)
[3]	Z. Y. Zhang, Y. L. Zhang, J. N. Dong et al, Nucl. Instrum. Methods A, 780: 21-26 (2015)
[4]	C. Q. Feng et al, arXiv:1406.3886
[5]	S. Bourdarie and M. Xapsos, IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., 55(4): 1810-1832 (2008)
[6]	A. J. Tylka, J. H. Adams, P. R. Boberg et al, IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., 44(6): 2150-2160 (1997)
[7]	S. S. Gao, C. Q. Feng, D. Jiang et al, Nucl. Sci. Tech., 25(1): 010402 (2014)
[8]	Y. Q. Ma, Research on Pulsed Laser Induced Single Event Effects, Ph.D. Thesis (Beijing: Center for Space Science and Applied Research, CAS, 2011) (in Chinese)
[9]	S. Buchner, D. McMorrow, J. Melinger et al, IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., 43(2): 678-686 (1996)
[10]	J. R. Schwank, M. R. Shaneyfelt, J. Baggio et al, IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., 52(6): 2622-2629 (2005)
[11]	P. Calvel, C. Barillot, P. Lamothe et al, IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., 43(6): 2827-2832 (1996)
[12]	Z. T. Shen, C. Q. Feng, S. S. Gao et al, IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., 62(3): 1010-1015 (2015)

[1]	Shu He , Xiaofeng Luo . Event-by-event efficiency fluctuations and efficiency correction for cumulants of superposed multiplicity distributions in relativistic heavy-ion collision experiments. Chinese Physics C, 2018, 42(10): 104001. doi: 10.1088/1674-1137/42/10/104001
[2]	Fufang Wen , Jacob Bryon , Liwen Wen , Gang Wang . Event-shape-engineering study of charge separation in heavy-ion collisions. Chinese Physics C, 2018, 42(1): 014001. doi: 10.1088/1674-1137/42/1/014001
[3]	Dong-Hong Zhang , Feng-Shou Zhang . Fragment distribution in ^78,86Kr+¹⁸¹Ta reactions. Chinese Physics C, 2018, 42(5): 054107. doi: 10.1088/1674-1137/42/5/054107
[4]	Xiao-Ni Li , Wei-Qiang Wen , Heng Du , Peng Li , Xiao-Hu Zhang , Xue-Jing Hu , Guo-Feng Qu , Zhong-Shan Li , Wen-Wen Ge , Jie Li , Han-Bing Wang , Jia-Wen Xia , Jian-Cheng Yang , Xin-Wen Ma , You-Jin Yuan . Simulation of longitudinal dynamics of laser-cooled and RF-bunched C³⁺ ion beams at heavy ion storage ring CSRe. Chinese Physics C, 2017, 41(7): 077003. doi: 10.1088/1674-1137/41/7/077003
[5]	Jun-Kui Xu , You-Wu Su , Wu-Yuan Li , Wei-Wei Yan , Xi-Meng Chen , Wang Mao , Cheng-Guo Pang . Evaluation of neutron radiation field in carbon ion therapy. Chinese Physics C, 2016, 40(1): 018201. doi: 10.1088/1674-1137/40/1/018201
[6]	Zhen-Lei Yang , Xiao-Hui Wang , Zhan-Gang Zhang , Jie Liu , Hong Su . Implementation and verification of different ECC mitigation designs for BRAMs in flash-based FPGAs. Chinese Physics C, 2016, 40(4): 046103. doi: 10.1088/1674-1137/40/4/046103
[7]	Kai Xi , Chao Geng , Zhan-Gang Zhang , Ming-Dong Hou , You-Mei Sun , Jie Luo , Tian-Qi Liu , Bin Wang , Bing Ye , Ya-Nan Yin , Jie Liu . Monte Carlo predictions of proton SEE cross-sections from heavy ion test data. Chinese Physics C, 2016, 40(6): 066001. doi: 10.1088/1674-1137/40/6/066001
[8]	ZHANG Yong , YANG Jing , ZHANG Wei-Ning . Relativistic effects on the back-to-back correlation functions of boson-antiboson pairs in high energy heavy ion collisions. Chinese Physics C, 2015, 39(3): 034103. doi: 10.1088/1674-1137/39/3/034103
[9]	XIE Xiu-Cui , SONG Ming-Tao , ZHANG Xiao-Hu . Conceptional design of the laser ion source based hadrontherapy facility. Chinese Physics C, 2014, 38(4): 047006. doi: 10.1088/1674-1137/38/4/047006
[10]	PANG Dan-Yang . Effects of relativistic kinematics in heavy ion elastic scattering. Chinese Physics C, 2014, 38(2): 024104. doi: 10.1088/1674-1137/38/2/024104
[11]	LIN Chen , Van Tilborg , GUO Zhi-Yu . Observation of optical transition radiation from electron beams generated by laser plasma accelerator. Chinese Physics C, 2013, 37(2): 027003. doi: 10.1088/1674-1137/37/2/027003
[12]	WANG Yang-Yang , ZHAO Lin-Jie , YUAN Zhong-Sheng , ZHANG Dan-Dan , FANG Wei , XU Ming-Mei . System size in relativistic heavy ion collisions. Chinese Physics C, 2011, 35(3): 264-268. doi: 10.1088/1674-1137/35/3/010
[13]	TIAN Kai , CAO Zhou , XUE Yu-Xiong , YANG Shi-Yu . Comparison study of the charge density distribution induced by heavy ions and pulsed lasers in silicon. Chinese Physics C, 2010, 34(1): 148-151. doi: 10.1088/1674-1137/34/1/028
[14]	MA Yan-Liang , OUYANG Xiao-Ping , ZHANG Jing-Wen , ZHANG Zhong-Bing , PAN Hong-Bo , CHEN Liang , LIU Lin-Yue . Properties study of ZnO:Ga crystal on pulsed radiation detections. Chinese Physics C, 2010, 34(3): 354-358. doi: 10.1088/1674-1137/34/3/009
[15]	WANG Huan-Hua . In-situ monitoring of EuTiO₃ and SrTiO₃ film growth using time-resolved X-ray scattering during pulsed-laser deposition. Chinese Physics C, 2009, 33(11): 935-943. doi: 10.1088/1674-1137/33/11/002
[16]	XIAO Guo-Qing , ZHANG Hong , LI Qiang , SONG Ming-Tao , YUAN You-Jin , XIA Jia-Wen , ZHAN Wen-Long . Progresses of heavy-ion cancer therapy. Chinese Physics C, 2008, 32(S2): 8-12.
[17]	GUO Wen-Jun , LIU Jian-Ye . Isospin effects of the Skyrme potential and the momentum dependent interaction at intermediate energy heavy ion collisions. Chinese Physics C, 2008, 32(3): 172-176. doi: 10.1088/1674-1137/32/3/002
[18]	Chen Liewen , Zhang Xiaodong , Ge Lingxiao . Isospin Effects on Pre-Equilibrium Nucleon Emission in Heavy-Ion Collisions. Chinese Physics C, 1997, 21(S1): 465-470.
[19]	Zhu Quanling , Ge Lingxiao , Zhang Xiaodong . Isospin Effects on Dynamics of Heavy Ion Collisions. Chinese Physics C, 1994, 18(S3): 301-306.
[20]	Zhuang Pengfei , Liu Lianshou . Estimation of the Maximum Energy Density in High Energy Heavy Ion Collisions and the Space-time Region for the Formation of Quark Matter. Chinese Physics C, 1991, 15(S3): 297-305.

Access

Get Citation

Shan-Shan Gao, Di Jiang, Chang-Qing Feng, Kai Xi, Shu-Bin Liu and Qi An. Single event effect hardness for the front-end ASICs in the DAMPE satellite BGO calorimeter[J]. Chinese Physics C, 2016, 40(1): 016102. doi: 10.1088/1674-1137/40/1/016102

RIS(for EndNote,Reference Manager,ProCite)

BibTex

Txt

Milestone

Received: 2015-06-24
Revised: 2015-08-31

Fund

Supported by Strategic Priority Research Program on Space Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDA04040202-4) and Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (WK2030040048)

Article Metric

Article Views(1818)
PDF Downloads(186)
Cited by(0)

Policy on re-use

To reuse of subscription content published by CPC, the users need to request permission from CPC, unless the content was published under an Open Access license which automatically permits that type of reuse.

通讯作者: 陈斌, bchen63@163.com

1.
沈阳化工大学材料科学与工程学院沈阳 110142

Single event effect hardness for the front-end ASICs in the DAMPE satellite BGO calorimeter

Corresponding author: Shan-Shan Gao,

Corresponding author: Chang-Qing Feng,

1. State Key Laboratory of Particle Detection and Electronics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China

2. Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China

3. Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China

Received Date: 2015-06-24

Accepted Date: 2015-08-31

Available Online: 2016-01-20

Fund Project: Supported by Strategic Priority Research Program on Space Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDA04040202-4) and Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (WK2030040048)

Abstract: The Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) is a Chinese scientific satellite designed for cosmic ray studies with a primary scientific goal of indirect detection of dark matter particles. As a crucial sub-detector, the BGO calorimeter measures the energy spectrum of cosmic rays in the energy range from 5 GeV to 10 TeV. In order to implement high-density front-end electronics (FEE) with the ability to measure 1848 signals from 616 photomultiplier tubes on the strictly constrained satellite platform, two kinds of 32-channel front-end ASICs, VA160 and VATA160, are customized. However, a space mission period of more than 3 years makes single event effects (SEEs) become threats to reliability. In order to evaluate SEE sensitivities of these chips and verify the effectiveness of mitigation methods, a series of laser-induced and heavy ion-induced SEE tests were performed. Benefiting from the single event latch-up (SEL) protection circuit for power supply, the triple module redundancy (TMR) technology for the configuration registers and the optimized sequential design for the data acquisition process, 52 VA160 chips and 32 VATA160 chips have been applied in the flight model of the BGO calorimeter with radiation hardness assurance.

HTML

Reference (12)

Single event effect hardness for the front-end ASICs in the DAMPE satellite BGO calorimeter

Abstract：

References

Access

Article Metrics

Metrics

通讯作者: 陈斌, bchen63@163.com

Email This Article