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The ePixUHR35kHz Megapixel Cameras project aims to provide modular detector blocks that can be configured into larger cameras in various structural configurations. The smallest building block is a 3x2 detector sensor module which has a total of 3*2*192*168=193536≈200k pixels. Six of these (6*193536=1161216≈1M pixels) modules are assembled together into a 1 megapixel (1M) camera as shown below to the left. Four of the 1M cameras can then be assembled together around a central beam pipe aperture to form a 4M camera shown in the middle below. The largest configuration foreseen for this project is the 16M camera that consists of 16 of the 1M camera blocks as shown below on the right.

1 megapixels (1M)


6x 3x2 sensor modules:

  • 6*3*2 = 36 ASICs
  • 6 readout boards:
    • 6 FPGAs & transceivers
    • 6*12 = 72 fiber pairs

4 megapixels (4M)

 

4x 1M camera assemblies:

  • 4*36 = 144 ASICs
  • 4*6 = 24 readout boards:
    • 24*6 = 144 FPGAs & transceivers
    • 24*72 = 1728 fiber pairs

16 megapixels (16M)

16x 1M camera assemblies:

  • 16*36 = 576 ASICs
  • 16*6 = 96 readout boards:
    • 96*6 = 576 FPGAs & transceivers
    • 96*72 = 6912 fiber pairs

Table of contents

Useful resources


Jira tasks for the project

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Design 

Mechanical design

Electronics design 3x2 sensor module

The electronics for the 3x2 sensor module is split into two parts; the ASIC carrier (left in the block diagram below) and the readout board (right in the block diagram). They are electrically connected together through a right-angle connector from the Samtec SEARAY connector family, which provides a total of 500 pins for signals and power. The ASIC carrier contains the 3x2 ASICs together with the 3x2 sensor and minimal amount of other components in order to reduce the size and therefore increase the sensitive area of the detector focal plane (the are which is covered by a sensitive sensor). All the active circuitry for interfacing and powering the ASICs is located on the readout board as well as the components for optical communication with the external back-end system.

ePixUHR-miniTileBD

Concept boards for 3x2 sensor modules

Board-to-board connector

SAMTEC SEAF8/SEAM8 series connector will be used with 10x40=400 pins in one connector.

Needs to be updated with the 40 column version

Note: Due to the use of a right-angle connector there will be different path lengths for signals in different rows. See hsc-report-sma_seam8-s02_seaf8-ra_web.pdf from Samtec. Page 63 to 65 show the propagation delay of the first row A (100 ps) to the last row K (180 ns).


Readout board connectorCarrier board connector
3D model

Photo of sample


Part numberSEAF8-50-1-S-10-2-RASEAM8-50-S02.0-S-10-3
Product pagehttps://www.samtec.com/products/seaf8-50-1-s-10-2-rahttps://www.samtec.com/products/seam8-50-s02.0-s-10-3
Catalog[online version] - [local pdf][online version] - [local pdf]
Drawing[online version] - [local pdf][online version] - [local pdf]
Footprint[online version] - [local pdf][online version] - [local pdf]
STEP 3D modelSEAF8-50-1-S-10-2-RA.stpSEAM8-50-S02.0-S-10-3.stp

Readout board connectorCarrier board connector
3D model

Part numberSEAF8-50-1-S-10-2-RA-GPSEAM8-50-S02.0-S-10-3-GP
Product pagehttps://www.samtec.com/products/seaf8-50-1-s-10-2-ra-gphttps://www.samtec.com/products/seam8-50-s02.0-s-10-3-gp
Catalog[online version] - [local pdf][online version] - [local pdf]
Drawing[online version] - [local pdf][online version] - [local pdf]
Footprint[online version] - [local pdf][online version] - [local pdf]
STEP 3D modelSEAF8-50-1-S-10-2-RA-GP.stpSEAM8-50-S02.0-S-10-3-GP.stp

ASIC

The ePixUHR 100 kHz ASIC is used in this project. The main properties are:

  • 192 (H) x 168 (V) pixels
  • 100 um x 100 um pixel size

Resources:

Size and measurements

These measurements are taken from a GDS file (ePixUHR_100kHz_4Julie.gds) that was opened in KLayout.


Full matrixLower left cornerLower right corner
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Measurements
  • Width (x): 19306.26 µm
  • Height (y): 18674.7 µm
  • Pad
    • Width (x): 60 µm
    • Height (y): 120 µm
    • Pitch: 100 µm
  • First pad location relative to lower-left corner
    • x: 573.13 µm
    • y: 45.095 µm
  • Last pad location relative to lower-right corner
    • x: 473.13 µm
    • y: 45.095 µm

Altium footprint

A footprint has been created in Altium Designer for the ASIC. The sizes and measurements listed above have been used and rounded to the nearest µm.


Full matrixLower left cornerLower right corner
Image

Measurements
  • Width (x): 19306 µm
  • Height (y): 18674 µm
  • Pad
    • Width (x): 60 µm
    • Height (y): 120 µm
  • First pad location relative to lower-left corner
    • x: 573 µm
    • y: 45 µm
  • Last pad location relative to lower-right corner
    • x: 473 µm
    • y: 45 µm
    • Pitch: 100 µm

Sensor design

Due to asymmetry in the ASICs, the edges of the top row do not align exactly with the edges of the bottom row. The top row is shifted horizontally by 1.35 µm relative to the bottom row. The ASICs are spaced 19485 µm apart horizontally.


Full sensorLower left cornerBetween two ASICs at the bottomLower right cornerBetween ASICs in the middleTop left cornerTop right corner
Image

Measurements
  • Width (x): 60610 µm
  • Height (y): 36525 µm
  • x offset: 1166.695 µm
  • y offset: 502.135 µm
  • x distance: 178.74 µm
  • x offset: 1168.045 µm
  • y offset: 502.135 µm
  • x offset: 178.74 µm
  • y offset: 179.87 µm
  • x offset: 1168.045 µm
  • y offset: 502.135 µm
  • x offset: 1165.695 µm
  • y offset: 502.135 µm

pixel /  array size

arrangement 3x2, 2x2, 1x1

Link to mechanical models

  • Dxf with the design



Block diagrams of camera configurations

The block diagrams have been created with Draw.io instead of the Gliffy integration in Confluence, which has major issue as soon as there are more than 100 items in the diagram it seems. It slows down the whole confluence page and it's near impossible to edit the diagram. There are also major limitations in the tools available in Gliffy, e.g. there doesn't seem to be a way to draw an arbitrary polygon or parallelograms.


Meeting notes


Reference documents from HE project


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