Evaluating Xilinx 7 Series GTX Transceivers for Use in High Energy Physics Experiments Through Proton Irradiation

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This paper presents an examination of the Xilinx 7-Series GTX transceiver for use in High Energy Physics (HEP) experiments with special emphasis on the environment expected in the ATLAS Liquid Argon (LAr) subsystem. Two Xilinx Kintex 325T devices were tested with a 180 MeV proton beam at the TSL facility in Sweden. The beam test architecture monitors the GTX transceivers for lane failures and bit errors in the data streams from the 13 links sent from the Device Under Test (DUT). The DUT was exposed to 1.55 times 10{13} hbox{protons/cm}2 over a non-continuous period of 24 hours. The cross section of the GTX to any failure was calculated to be approximately 7.32 times 10 {-12}hbox{cm}{2}/hbox{lane} which translates to an error every 17 minutes for a full LAr subsystem involving 2 times 10{4} hbox{lanes}. No permanent damage was observed on any of the GTX links or other parts of the FPGA. A slight increase in current on the VCCINT power supply was observed at the end of the test.

Original languageEnglish
Article number7348745
JournalIEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
Volume62
Issue number6
Pages (from-to)2695-2702
Number of pages8
ISSN0018-9499
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015
Externally publishedYes

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    Research areas

  • Field programmable gate arrays (FP-GAs), Giga-Bit transceiver (GBT), high energy physics, multi-gigabit transceivers (MGTs), proton irradiation, xilinx GTX transceivers

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