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A high-precision charge measurement can be achieved by the area integration of a digitized quasi-Gaussian signal after the signal passes through the shaper and analog-to-digital converter (ADC). The charge measurement contains an error due…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-09-26 Jiajin Zhang , Lei Zhao , Ruoshi Dong , Peipei Deng , Cong Ma , Jiaming Lu , Shubin Liu , Qi An

A highly integrated, high performance, and re-configurable device, which is designed for the Nitrogen-Vacancy center based quantum applications, is reported. The digital compartment of the device is fully implemented in a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-02-01 X. Qin , Z. Shi , Y. Xie , L. Wang , X. Rong , W. Jia , W. Zhang , J. Du

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

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…

This paper proposes a high-speed transceiver-based method for implementing a digital-to-time converter (DTC). A real-time decoding technique is introduced to inject time information into high-speed pattern data. The stability of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-11 Dexuan Kong , Zaiming Fu , Yujie Deng , Ruiqi Wang

We report on the development of a novel FPGA-based Time-to-Digital Converter and its implementation in a detection chain that records the coordinates of single particles along three dimensions. The detector is composed of Micro-Channel…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-12-09 F. Nogrette , D. Heurteau , R. Chang , Q. Bouton , C. I. Westbrook , R. Sellem , D. Clément

In this article it is presented an FPGA based $M$ulti-$V$oltage $T$hreshold (MVT) system which allows of sampling fast signals ($1-2$ ns rising and falling edge) in both voltage and time domain. It is possible to achieve a precision of time…

The design and performance of wave union TDC implemented in a Lattice CertusPro-NX FPGA is discussed. This FPGA is available for radiation tolerant applications. The TDC is implemented with 16-channels and a 200 MHz reference clock. Each…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-12-09 Brian A. Bryce , Kathryn M. Marcotte

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

Muon Spin Rotation, Relaxation and Resonance ({\mu}SR) technology has an irreplaceable role in studying the microstructure and properties of materials, especially micro-magnetic properties. An experimental muon source is being built in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-06-06 Fanshui Deng , Hao Liang , Bangjiao Ye , Jingyu Tang

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

This paper presents several new structures to pursue high-resolution (< 2 ps) time-to-digital converters (TDCs) in Xilinx 20 nm UltraScale field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). The proposed TDCs combined the advantages of 1) our newly…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-09 Wujun Xie , Haochang Chen , David Day-Uei Li

Time-tagging units and coincidence detectors are used in many scientific research fields. The required timing resolution and number of input channels are varying, but some emerging experiments in the field of quantum optics require up to 32…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-11-03 Attila Hidvegi

Inspired by Wilkinson ADC method, we implement a fast linear discharge method based on FPGA to digitize nuclear pulse signal. In this scheme, we use a constant current source to discharge the charge on capacitor which is integrated by the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-06-08 Xiaoguang Kong , Yonggang Wang , Liwei Wang , Yong Xiao , Jie Kuang

We have designed, implemented and tested a time-to-digital converter core in a low-cost Spartan-6 FPGA. Our design exploits the finite propagation speed in carry chains to realize a delay line in which the propagation distance of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-03-29 Sebastien Bourdeauducq

A readout electronic with high time and energy resolution performance is designed for the SDD (Silicon Drift Detector) signals readout, which is aimed for X-ray pulsar based navigation (XNAV). For time measurement, the input signal is fed…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-03-10 Er-Lei Chen , Chang-Qing Feng , Chun-Feng Ye , Shu-Bin Liu , Dong-Dong Jin , Jian Lian , Hui-Jun Hu

We present the design and test results of a Time-to-Digital-Converter (TDC). The TDC will be a part of the readout ASIC, called ETROC, to read out Low-Gain Avalanche Detectors (LGADs) for the CMS Endcap Timing Layer (ETL) of High-Luminosity…

The paper presents a system for measuring photon statistics and photon timing in the few-photon regime down to the single-photon level. The measurement system is based on superconducting nanowire single photon detectors and a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-04-04 N. Lusardi , J. W. N. Los , R. B. M. Gourgues , G. Bulgarini , A. Geraci

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

We present the ARAGORN front-end, a cost-optimized, high-density Time-to-Digital Converter platform. Four Xilinx Artix-7 FPGAs implement 384 channels with an average time resolution of 165 ps on a single module. A fifth FPGA acts as data…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-03-08 Maximilian Büchele , Horst Fischer , Florian Herrmann , Carl Schaffer