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We present the second prototype of a time-to-digital (TDC) ASIC for the upgrade of the ATLAS Monitored Drift Tube (MDT) detector for High-Luminosity LHC operations. Compared to the first prototype, triple modular redundancy has been…
Time-domain ADCs are attractive for high-speed wireline receivers, as time resolution scales favorably with advanced CMOS technologies, enabling multi-GS/s single-channel sampling rates. However, conventional time-domain ADCs require…
Key parameters of analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) are their sampling rate and dynamic range. Power consumption and cost of an ADC are directly proportional to the sampling rate; hence, it is desirable to keep it as low as possible. The…
Many application domains face the challenges of high-power consumption and high computational demands, especially with the advancement in embedded machine learning and edge computing. Designing application-specific circuits is crucial to…
The increasing demand for cryogenic electronics in superconducting and quantum computing systems calls for ultra energy efficient data conversion architectures that remain functional at deep cryogenic temperatures.In this work, we present…
Factors that contribute to the rapid increase in power dissipation as a function of input bandwidth in high speed electronic Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADCs) are discussed. We find that the figure of merit (FOM), defined as the energy…
In future high-capacity wireless systems based on mmWave or massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO), the power consumption of receiver Analog to Digital Converters (ADC) is a concern. Although hybrid or analog systems with fewer ADCs…
We present a sub-Nyquist analog-to-digital converter of wideband inputs. Our circuit realizes the recently proposed modulated wideband converter, which is a flexible platform for sampling signals according to their actual bandwidth…
As the bridge between the analog world and digital computers, analog-to-digital converters are generally used in modern information systems such as radar, surveillance, and communications. For the configuration of analog-to-digital…
We have developed a completely new type of general-purpose CCD data acquisition system which enables one to drive any type of CCD using any type of clocking mode. A CCD driver system widely used before consisted of an analog multiplexer…
In recent years, high speed and high resolution analog-to-digital converter (ADC) is widely employed in many physical experiments, especially in high precision time and charge measurement. The rapid increasing amount of digitized data…
We investigate massive multiple-input-multiple output (MIMO) uplink systems with 1-bit analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) on each receiver antenna. Receivers that rely on 1-bit ADC do not need energy-consuming interfaces such as automatic…
We propose a new digital-to-analog converter (DAC) for realizing a synapse circuit of mixed-signal spiking neural networks. We named this circuit "time-domain DAC (TDAC)". This produces weights for converting a digital input code into…
High sampling speed can be achieved using multiple Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADCs) based on the Time-Interleaving A/D Conversion (TIADC) technique. Various types of methods were proposed to correct the mismatch errors among parallel ADC…
Dynamic comparators are the core of high-speed, high-resolution analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) used for communication applications. Most of the dynamic comparators attain high-speed operation only for sufficiently high input difference…
Time-to-digital converters (TDCs) are used in various fields, including high-energy physics. One advantage of implementing TDCs in field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) is the flexibility on the modification of the logics, which is useful…
The quantum charge-coupled device (QCCD) is one of the notable architectures to achieve large-scale trapped-ion quantum computers. To realize QCCD architecture, ions must be transported quickly while minimizing motional excitation.…
The paper considers the calibration of control-bounded analog-to-digital converters. It is demonstrated that variations of the analog frontend can be addressed by calibrating the digital estimation filter. In simulations (both behavioral…
Pipelined analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) are key enablers in many state-of-the-art signal processing systems with high sampling rates. In addition to high sampling rates, such systems often demand a high linearity. To meet these…
This paper presents the new approach in implementation of analog-to-digital converter (ADC) that is based on Hopfield neural-network architecture. Hopfield neural ADC (NADC) is a type of recurrent neural network that is effective in solving…