Abstract:
For the low power and digital readout requirements of plastic scintillation detector(PSD), a multi-channel 10 bit 20 MSPS Pipeline Analog-to-Digital Converter(ADC) chip is developed. In order to evaluate the performance of the ADC chip, a systematic test is needed. In the work of this paper, a test system is developed, which included the hardware design of the circuits, the design of the FPGA firmware and the analysis programme. The ADC chip was systematically tested and analysed according to IEEE standards.The test results indicate that, when the input signal frequency is in baseband range, the performance of the ADC chip meets the design requirements, and the Effective Number of Bit(ENOB) is close to 8.0 bit. The Integral nonlinearity(INL) is 0.75 LSB, and the differential nonlinearity(DNL) is 1.09 LSB, which provides strong support for future optimization design and parameter improvement of the ADC chips.