DMILL, A MIXED ANALOG-DIGITAL RADIATION-HARD BICMOS TECHNOLOGY FOR HIGH-ENERGY PHYSICS ELECTRONICS

High Energy Physics experiments under preparation at CERN (Geneva, Swi tzerland) with the future LHC (Large Hadron collider) require a fast, low noise, very rad-hard, mixed analog-digital microelectronics VLSI t echnology. Readout electronics designed using such a technology for th e central parts of the LHC particle detectors must withstand more than 10 Mrad (SiO2) and 10(14) neutrons/cm(2) over 10 years of operation. We present here recent results obtained with a new rad-hard analog-dig ital technology called DMILL(1) [1-8], which monolithically integrates NPN bipolar, CMOS and P-JFET transistors, and which has been specific ally developed to fulfill the severe constraints of LHC detector reado ut circuits.