CMOS Design of Pulse Processing ASIC for Radiation Detection

This paper presents the design & development of an 36 channel Pulse Processing ASIC using 0.35µm mixed CMOS technology for radiation detection in high energy physics experiments. The benefits of CMOS technology in nuclear instrumentation has surpassed the expectation due to advancement of technology, emerging detectors, readouts data rates and very important radiation hardness with benefits of low power and high density of electronics. The Pulse Processing ASIC intended to use with silicon pad detectors find application in high energy physics experiments for detecting nuclear radiations and converting the charge into electrical signals. The methodology of design includes circuit design and its optimization using public domain CAD tool.