XIII FRONT-END ELECTRONICS WORKSHOP PARIS France

18 May 2026, 09:00 → 22 May 2026, 13:00 Europe/Paris

Amphithéâtre Charpak (LPNHE)

Christophe de LA TAILLE (OMEGA), Nathalie SEGUIN-MOREAU (OMEGA - Ecole Polytechnique - CNRS/IN2P3)

The 2026 Front-end Electronics workshop is the 13th of a series of very productive meetings where the best researchers of the world present the state of the art in the field. The meeting has a strong focus on full custom ASIC design. Technical sessions are geared toward HEP experiments, astrophysics, particle physics, medical imaging, photon science, and CMOS monolithic active pixel sensors. As microsystems have gotten denser, new packaging solution and interposer technologies are required and have a special interest. Also, more experiments require cryogenic electronics, where the front-end is actually installed inside the noble liquid (Ar, Xe) and this opens the door to brand-new challenges such as interposer/ASIC electronic supports, having different thermal expansion coefficients. Circuits with very fast timing capabilties are becoming more and more critical for future applications in the field. The potential impact on front-end ASICs of new technological developments such as silicon photonics, artificial intelligence and quantum technologies is also of interest and will be covered in the talks.

Presentations are by invitation only. A limited number of qualified persons can be admitted upon request to assist to the talk. The workshop is in presence only.

FEE 2026 POSTER.pdf

Monday 18 May

09:00 → 10:30 opening session

09:00 welcome

Speaker: Christophe DE LA TAILLE (OMEGA)

09:15 tbd

09:45 Microelectronics at IN2P3

Speaker: Frédéric MOREL (IPHC)

10:30 → 11:00 coffe break

11:00 → 12:30 session 1 : HEP pixels

11:00 picopix

Speaker: Alessandro Caratelli (CERN)

11:30 SENSPIX4: An Intelligent Pixel Readout ASIC with Binary-Weight Analog Neural Network for Hybrid Pixel Detectors

Speaker: Jengsi CHENG

12:00 Lessons learned from RD53

Speaker: Flavio Loddo (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare - Sez. di Bari)

12:30 → 14:00 lunch

14:00 → 16:00 session 2 : photon science

14:00 Pixelated Readout ASICs for High-Speed X-Ray Imaging

Speaker: Lorenzo Rota

14:30 Developments of the Pixel Detector Readout ASICs for Photon Science at IHEP

Speaker: Dr Mujin Li (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

15:00 Development of a New Front-End Stage for Future XFEL Detectors

Speaker: Adele Ciavarella (Politecnico Milano)

15:30 Column-Parallel Sigma-Delta ADCs for CMOS Image Sensors in Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM)

Speaker: Peter Hatfaludi (STFC)

16:00 → 16:30 tea break

16:30 → 18:30 session 3 : timing

16:30 A sub-5 ps jitter time-to-digital converter ASIC with back-gate delay tuning in 22 nm CMOS

Speaker: Adam Quinn

17:00 Monolith Picosecond Avalanche Detector

Speaker: Lorenzo Paolozzi (Université de Genève)

17:30 Timing Front-Ends for Photon Science and High-Energy Physics

Speaker: Bojan Markovic (SLAC)

18:00 Photon-to-Digital Converter in 65 nm CMOS Technology with SPTR Below 15 ps FWHM

Speaker: Nicolas Roy (Université de Sherbrooke)

19:00 → 21:00 Welcome Drink

Tour Zalanski

Tuesday 19 May

09:00 → 10:30 session 4 : SiPM

09:00 ALCOR: A mixed-signal ASIC for the dRICH detector of the ePIC experiment at the EIC

Speaker: giulio Dellacasa (INFN Torino)

09:30 Fully-Digital 110 nm CMOS SiPM for Ultra-Fast Amplitude, Time-of-Arrival, and Time-over-Threshold Measurements

Speaker: Tommaso Floris (INFN Pavia)

10:00 DENEB: a 1024-Channel Mixed-Signal ASIC for SiPM Readout with sub-100 ps Timing and Photon Counting Operating from 77 K to 300 K

Speaker: Stefano Durando (INFN Torino)

10:30 → 11:00 coffe break

11:00 → 12:30 session 5 : design techniques

11:00 Verification technques for complex ASICs

Speaker: Adithya Pulli (CERN)

11:30 Highly-Digital Approaches Toward Front-End Design

Speaker: Soumyajit Mandal (BNL)

12:00 Open-Source ASIC Design

Speaker: Mehdi Saligane (Brown Univ.)

12:30 → 14:00 lunch

14:00 → 14:45 keynote talk

14:45 → 16:15 session 6 : MAPs

14:45 Development of monolithic sensors for the ALICE ITS3 and ALICE3 upgrades

Speaker: Corentin Lemoine (CERN)

15:15 Design of the OBELIX monolithic CMOS pixel sensor for upgrade of the Belle II vertex detector

Speaker: Thanh Hung PHAM (IPHC-CNRS)

15:45 Event-Driven MAPS for Large-Area Vertex and Tracking Detectors aiming at Intelligent 3D Stacks

Speaker: Dominik Gorni (BNL)

16:15 → 16:45 tea break

16:45 → 18:15 session 7 : HEP

16:45 Frontend chip development for the CEPC electronic system

Speaker: Wei Wei (IHEP, CAS)

17:15 SALSA: a new versatile readout chip for MPGD

Speaker: Christophe Flouzat (CEA/IRFU Paris-Saclay)

17:45 "High performance TDC and ADC blocks at ultra-low power"

Speaker: Marek Idzik (AGH)

Wednesday 20 May

09:00 → 10:30 session 9 : technology

09:00 Radiation effects in advanced CMOS nodes

Speaker: Giulio Borghello (CERN)

09:30 Analog front-end in CMOS 28 nm for HEP and photon science

Speaker: Luigi GAIONI (University of Bergamo and INFN Pavia)

10:00 Looking beyond 28nm CMOS

Speaker: Kostas Kloukinas (CERN)

10:30 → 11:00 coffe break

11:00 → 12:00 session 8 : photon science

11:00 Smart Pixels: In-pixel AI for on-sensor data filtering

Speaker: Benjamin Parpillon (FNAL)

11:30 From Charge Amplifier to Arbitration: Event-Driven Front-End Electronics for X-ray Pixel Detectors

Speaker: Grzegorz Deptuch (BNL)

12:00 → 14:00 lunch and travel to Versailles castle

14:15 → 16:30 networking afternoon : visit of Versailles castle

17:00 → 18:30 bus back to Paris

19:30 → 22:30 social dinner in Montmartre

Thursday 21 May

09:00 → 10:30 session 10 : maps + timing

09:00 MightyPix: A HV-CMOS Pixel Chip for LHCb’s Mighty Tracker

Speaker: Ivan Peric (KIT)

09:30 A Low-Power Fully Depleted Monolithic CMOS Pixel Detector with Time and Charge Measurement for Compton Imaging

Speaker: Matteo Barbogiovanni (INFN Torino)

10:00 MadPix, Monolithic CMOS Avalanche Detector PIXelated Prototype for ps Timing Application

Speaker: Valerio Paglierino (INFN Torino)

10:30 → 11:00 coffe break

11:00 → 12:30 session 11 : LGAD & timing

11:00 EICROC: an ASIC to read-out the AC-LGAD sensors for the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC)

Speaker: tbd (OMEGA)

11:30 Constant Fraction Discriminator Readout Chip for ePIC

Speaker: Artur Apresyan (FNAL)

12:00 High timing resolution frontend ASIC development

Speaker: XIONGBO YAN (Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS)

12:30 → 14:00 lunch

14:00 → 14:45 keynote talk : eFPGAs

Speaker: Michael Karagounis

14:45 → 16:15 session 12 : photon science

14:45 Adaptive Gain front-ends

Speaker: Aldo Mozzanica (PSI)

15:15 XIDyn: High Flux, High Dynamic-range Hard X-ray integrating detector full-reticle ASIC for 4th generation synchrotrons

Speaker: Luke Mallett (STFC)

15:45 Development of front-end chips for photon science

Speaker: Tomasz Hemperek (DECTRIS)

16:15 → 16:45 tea break

16:45 → 18:15 session 13 : cryogenic

16:45 "Cryogenic Characterization and Model Extension for a 28-nm Bulk CMOS Technology"

Speaker: Luca Castellani (INFN Torino)

17:15 Cryogenic CMOS Design for scalable qubit control and readout

Speaker: Dennis Nielinger (Julich)

17:45 Cryogenic CMOS Characterization and Design for Liquid-Noble Experiments and Superconducting Sensors

Speaker: Aldo Pena Perez (SLAC)

Friday 22 May

09:00 → 10:30 session 14 : HEP pixels and space

09:00 Development of a 28 nm pixel readout chip in the IGNITE project

Speaker: Adriano Lai (INFN)

09:30 COFFEE chip development on HVCMOS technology for CEPC ITK

Speaker: Yang ZHOU (IHEP (Institute of High Energy Physics), CAS)

10:00 Low-Noise Wide Dynamic Range Charge Sensitive Amplifier in 65 nm CMOS Technology for the Second Flight of the GAPS Experiment

Speaker: Massimo Manghisoni

10:30 → 11:00 coffe break

11:00 → 12:30 session 158 : calorimetry and spectroscopy

11:00 LArPix/LightPix

Speaker: Katerina Papadopoulou (LBNL)

11:30 Low-Noise Cryogenic Front-End ASICs for Noble Liquid Detectors

Speaker: Prahansa Mukim (BNL)

12:00 Front-end ASICs for high resolution imaging spectroscopy in space

Speaker: David Baudin (CEA/DRF/IRFU/DEDIP)

12:30 → 12:45 Conclusion and farewell