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In order to reconstruct gamma-gamma physics events tagged with High Energy Tagger (HET) in the KLOE-2 (K LOng Experiment 2), we need to measure the Time Of Flight (TOF) of the electrons and positrons from the KLOE-2 Interaction Point (IP)…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-05 L. Iafolla , A. Balla , M. Beretta , P. Ciambrone , M. Gatta , F. Gonnella , M. Mascolo , R. Messi , D. Moricciani , D. Riondino

A new FPGA-based low-level trigger processor has been installed at the NA62 experiment. It is intended to extend the features of its predecessor due to a faster interconnection technology and additional logic resources available on the new…

Clock synchronization procedures are mandatory in most physical experiments where event fragments are readout by spatially dislocated sensors and must be glued together to reconstruct key parameters (e.g. energy, interaction vertex etc.) of…

The NA62 experiment at CERN SPS started physics data taking this year with the aim to measure the ultra-rare decay $K^+\to\pi^+\nu\bar{\nu}$. The experiment consists of a large number of subsystems to reach the goal of 10% accuracy and less…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-08-06 Cristina Lazzeroni , Nicolas Lurkin

This paper presents a novel encoding method for fine time data of a tapped delay line (TDL) time-to-digital Converter (TDC). It is based on divide-and-conquer strategy, and has the advantage of significantly reducing logic resource…

Space Physics · Physics 2022-09-07 Wenhao Dong , Changqing Feng , Junchen Wang , Zhongtao Shen , Shubin Liu , Qi An

The NA62 experiment at CERN aims to make a precision measurement of the ultra-rare decay $K^{+} \rightarrow \pi^{+}\nu\overline{\nu}$, and relies on a differential Cherenkov detector (KTAG) to identify charged kaons at an average rate of 50…

The NA62 experiment at the CERN SPS aims at measuring the ultra-rare decay $K^+ \to \pi^+ \nu \bar{\nu}$ with 10% accuracy. This can be achieved by detecting about 100 Standard Model events with 10% background in 2-3 years of data taking.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-04-05 Nicolas Lurkin

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…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-12-30 Yuxiang Guo , Jinhong Wang , Yu Liang , Xiong Xiao , Xueye Hu , Qi An , J. W. Chapman , Tiesheng Dai , Lei Zhao , Zhengguo Zhao , Bing Zhou , Junjie Zhu

A 33.6 ps LSB Time-to-Digital converter was designed in 130 nm BiCMOS technology. The core of the converter is a differential 9-stage ring oscillator, based on a multi-path architecture. A novel version of this design is proposed, along…

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…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-22 Seiji Uenohara , Kazuyuki Aihara

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…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-13 Zeinab Hijazi , Fatima Bzeih , Ali Ibrahim

We have developed a Time-to-Digital Converter (TDC) application in a Xilinx Kintex-7 Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). This TDC, based on the Tapped-Delay Line (TDL) and Wave Union A (WU-A) techniques, achieves an independent time…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-12-30 Zehong Liang , Xiongbo Yan , Zhe Ning , Jun Hu , Xiaoshan Jiang , Yunhua Sun , Weiyan Pan , Jingbo Ye

Time-to-Digital Converters (TDCs) are major components for the measurements of time intervals. Recent developments in Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) have enabled the opportunity to implement high-performance TDCs, which were only…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Yuanyuan Hua , Danial Chitnis

NA62 is a fixed-target experiment at the CERN SPS dedicated to measurements of rare kaon decays. Such measurements, like the branching fraction of the $K^{+} \rightarrow \pi^{+} \nu \bar\nu$ decay, have the potential to bring significant…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-06-28 NA62 collaboration

A Time to Digital Converter was designed (CMOS 0.35 $\mum) in order to be used in Liquid Xenon PET prototype. The circuit proved to be able to work at -120 degrees C, while showing a resolution of 250 ps. The circuit enables a low readout…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-05-23 O. Bourrion , L. Gallin-Martel

A high-resolution time-to-digital converter (TDC) based on wave union (four-edge WU A), dual-sampling, and sub-TDL methods is proposed and implemented in a 16-nm Xilinx UltraScale+ field-programmable gate array (FPGA). We combine WU and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-09-02 Yu Wang , Wujun Xie , Haochang Chen , David Day-Uei Li

This paper proposes and evaluates a novel architecture for a low-power Time-to-Digital Converter with high resolution, optimized for both integration in multichannel chips and high rate operation (40 Mconversion/s/channel). This converter…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-02 Florent Bouyjou

The design of a high-precision time-to-digital converter (TDC) based on a multiphase clock implemented using a single field-programmable gate array is discussed in this paper. The TDC can increase the resolution of the measurement by using…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-02-05 Zhong Qi , Xiangting Meng , Deyuan Li , Lei Yang , Zeen Yao , Dongcang Li

This paper describes the hardware, firmware and software systems used in data acquisition for the NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN SPS accelerator. Special emphasis is given to the design parameters of the readout electronics for the 40m^3…

Fully Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)based digitizer for high-resolution time and energy measurement is an attractive low cost solution for the readout electronics in positron emission computed tomography (PET)detector. In recent…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-01-07 Cong Ma , Wubin Wang , Xiaokun Zhao , Li Yu , Guocheng Wu