Analysis and test of a novel photodetector device
Carlo Alberto Fenoglio
Analysis and test of a novel photodetector device.
Rel. Guido Masera. Politecnico di Torino, Corso di laurea magistrale in Nanotechnologies For Icts (Nanotecnologie Per Le Ict), 2021
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Abstract
This thesis presents the test of an innovative 3D-stacked front-side illuminated(FSI) multi-channel digital silicon photomultiplier (MD-SiPM) fabricated in0.18μmCMOS technology for time-of-flight positron emission tomography (TOF-PET).During the master project, carried out at AQUA laboratory at EPFL, a completetesting system for the chip was designed and implemented. This work focuses onthe implementation of the necessary firmware to interface with the unit under test,and the related software. The former is designed on a Opal Kelly XEM 7630 board,integrating a Kintex 7 FPGA from Xilinx. This board is fully supported by theFrontPanel SDK, a C++ class library to interface a software with the board. Thisis exploited to program a custom graphical user interface (GUI) to perform testsin a semi-automatic way.
Its main purpose is to transfer data between PC andFPGA, so to provide an effective controllability and observability of the design.On the FPGA side of the interface, some FrontPanel’s HDL modules work just asexternal pins, enabling the communication with the PC
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