High Energy Physics (HEP) IC Design Traineeship Program
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Menlo Park, California
June 24 - 28, 2024
Goals:
Aimed at graduate IC design students but open to others at a similar level. This summer week will cover High Energy Physics use cases and unique operating conditions, such as high radiation or deep cryogenic temperature.
Program:
A mix of lectures and practical design exercises:
Students will attend lectures on HEP topics in the morning and will work together in teams in the afternoons on solving design exercises. The teams will present the results on the last day of the workshop.
Lectures over the past years have included:
Analog front end design, ADCs, fast timing circuits, digital flow, cryogenic readout circuits, introduction to particle physics, experimental collider physics, cryogenic detectors and accelerator physics.
Requirements and costs:
To follow the hands-on part familiarity with the following is required:
–Basic device physics and models (MOS square-law, pn junctions)
–Frequency response, dominant pole approximation, ZVTC
–Biasing, small-signal models
–Common source, common gate, and common drain stages
–Port impedance calculations
–Feedback, stability, feedback circuit analysis
Location: Sycamore room in Bld 40 @SLAC National accelerator laboratory. The whole week will be in person.
There is no registration fee, you will have to arrange travel and housing yourself.
