RENA-3™
(Readout Electronics for Nuclear Application) is a 36-channel charge sensitive
amplifier/shaper ASIC chip with trigger output and sparse readout mode for
reading out position sensitive solid state detectors. The RENA-3 is an improved
version of the prototype RENA-2 design which supersedes NOVA’s earlier
32-channel RENA chip. UCSD's HEXIS project uses the RENA chip.
Applications
RENA-3 is a 36-channel mixed signal ASIC chip with low-noise self-resetting
charge sensitive preamplifiers at the input of each channel. The extrea
channels are built in to allow connection to the common electrodes of
solid state pixel detectors. Each channel has two individually selectable
dynamic ranges for wide energy range applications. RENA-3 can accommodate
applications that require accurate (low jitter) fast timing signals for
coincident imagining such as positron emission tomography (PET) and double
Compton scatter detectors. It has numberous possible applications in astrophysics,
medical and industrial imaging, security such as baggage inspection and
nuclear physics.
Availability
RENA-3™ will soon be available as chips packaged in a commercial
144-pin CQFP or with an evaluation system mounted on a daughter board
that can accommodate up to two chips and is equipped with connectors for
the user's detectors.
Images
 RENA-3™
evaluation board
 RENA-3™ chip assembled in commercial 144-pin CQFP packages
Documents
- IEEE paper: “Test
results of a CdZnTe pixel detector read out by RENA-2 IC”
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