In this appendix, a few important practical aspects of front-end design are introduced. First, the critical steps leading to a submission-ready ASIC are considered. Following this, the topics of substrate noise, off-chip data transmission, biasing distribution, system calibration and radiation hardness are briefly reviewed.
B.1 THE FRONT-END DESIGN CYCLE
Modern front-end ASICs are often complex mixed-signal chips, in which sensitive analog circuits are integrated together with many digital gates providing storage, control and signal processing functions. The design of such chips require several man-years of work which is completed by different designers. Therefore, the implementation of the analog ...
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