S. Gong

TL;DR: Simultaneous switching noise caused by parasitic inductance in the power supply distribution network is a severe problem in high speed digital circuits and systems and technical solutions for reducing SSN in the light of current developments of advanced packaging and assembly technologies are discussed.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors quantitatively showed that the influence of SSN, which is negligible when the rise/fall time is long (> 5 ns), becomes a critical factor, limiting system performance in the sub-nanosecond rise time region.

TL;DR: A digital solution based on analogue signal compression, high speed A/D converters, a fully programmable pipeline and a digital signal processing (DSP) chain with local intelligence and system supervision aimed at providing maximal front-end processing power by performing waveform analysis using DSP methods.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the digital filter section of the FERMI readout microsystem, consisting of two separate filter blocks, extracts the pulse amplitude and time information for the first-level trigger process and performs a highly accurate energy measurement for higher-level triggering and data readout purposes.

TL;DR: The Front End Readout MIcrosystem (FERMI) as mentioned in this paper is a representative of a new generation of data acquisition modules which utilizes modern design techniques to achieve a high acquisition rate together with intelligent on-line data processing.