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A low-noise and low-area-consumption power management dedicated to CMOS pixel sensors for high energy physics experiments

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The crosstalk between CMOS pixel sensors (CPS) degrades the performances of detector systems. Moreover, power distribution becomes a challenge in the future detectors for high energy physics experiments. In order to address these problems, a power management is proposed. Power supply voltages and reference voltages are internally generated in CPS. Two full on-chip linear regulators are proposed in this paper. Low area, low power consumption and low noise are achieved by a novel structure. The regulators have been designed and fabricated in a 0.35-μm commercial process. The measurement results are also presented.

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Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank H. Pham and M. Jankowskj for the fruitful discussions, F. Morel and G. Bertolone for their help of chip fabrication and M. Goffe for his help of measuring chip. This work is partly supported by China Scholarship Council (CSC).

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  1. School of Computer Science and Technology, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xian, 710072, China

    J. Wang & D. Gao

  2. Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert-Curien, University of Strasbourg, CNRS/IN2P3, 67037, Strasbourg, France

    J. Wang, C. Hu-Guo, I. Valin, A. Dorokhov, K. Jaaskelainen & Y. Hu

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Wang, J., Gao, D., Hu-Guo, C. et al. A low-noise and low-area-consumption power management dedicated to CMOS pixel sensors for high energy physics experiments. Analog Integr Circ Sig Process 75, 359–367 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10470-013-0057-3

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