Radiation hardness test of the UMC 130 nm nSYNC ASIC with a 60 MeV proton beam and X-Rays

The LHCb detector upgrade [1] foresees a new trigger-less readout system operating at 40 MHz. A new muon readout system, based on the nSYNC radiation tolerant ASIC [2] , [3] developed in the UMC 130 nm technology, will be installed and commissioned in 2019-20. The nSYNC chip implements all the required functionalities required: data alignment, time measurement of arriving signals from the front-end electronics using fully digital TDCs, data zero suppression. At the nominal luminosity, and during the ten years of upgrade operation, the chip will be exposed to a total dose of 130 Gy and fluence of 2 • 10 12 cm −2 1MeV neutrons equivalent, in the regions with the highest radiation levels. To guarantee a proper operation in these conditions the most sensitive functional blocks of the chip have been equipped with a triple modular redundancy system (TMR) and with error detection and correction system (EDAC) based on the Hamming code.