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Time-digital Converter (TDC) aims to measure the arrival time of the leading edge of the pulse signal. Our recent work presented a high resolution multi-phase TDC based on the Kintex-7 Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) device. A simple…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-12-30 Xue Dong , Cong Ma , Xiaokun Zhao , Xing Li , Zhenqiang Huang

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

In this paper we present a novel high-resolution multi-channel FPGA-based time-to-digital converter (TDC). We designed and implemented a complex electronic circuit on the FPGA, whose overall accuracy is several orders of magnitude greater…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Balazs Jakli , Adam Rak , Gyorgy Cserey

Time-to-Digital Converters (TDCs) are a crucial tool in a wide array of fields, in particular for quantum communication, where time taggers performance can severely affect the quality of the entire application. Nowadays, FPGA-based TDCs…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-26 Matías Rubén Bolaños , Daniele Vogrig , Paolo Villoresi , Giuseppe Vallone , Andrea Stanco

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 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…

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…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-01-29 Yuta Sano , Yasuyuki Horii , Masahiro Ikeno , Osamu Sasaki , Makoto Tomoto , Tomohisa Uchida

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

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

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

Time to Digital Converters (TDCs) are very common devices in particles physics experiments. A lot of "off-the-shelf" TDCs can be employed but the necessity of a custom DAta acQuisition (DAQ) system makes the TDCs implemented on the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-09-07 A. Balla , M. Beretta , P. Ciambrone , M. Gatta , F. Gonnella , L. Iafolla , M. Mascolo , R. Messi , D. Moricciani , D. Riondino

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

For TOF positron emission tomography (TOF PET) detectors, time-to-digital converters (TDCs) are essential to resolve the coincidence time of the photon pairs. Recently, an efficient TDC structure called ring-oscillator-based (RO-based)…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-06-12 Ke Cui , Xiangyu Li , Zongkai Liu , Rihong Zhu

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

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

We describe an FPGA-based, 96-channel, time-to-digital converter (TDC) intended for use with the Central Outer Tracker (COT) in the CDF Experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron. The COT system is digitized and read out by 315 TDC cards, each…

This study presents a novel field-programmable gate array (FPGA)-based Time-to-Digital Converter (TDC) design suitable for high timing resolution applications, utilizing two new techniques. First, a cross-detection (CD) method is introduced…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-10-15 Daehee Lee , Minseok Yi , Sun Il Kwon

A high precision and high resolution time-to-digital converter (TDC) implemented in a 40 nm fabrication process Virtex-6 FPGA is presented in this paper. The multi-chain measurements averaging architecture is used to overcome the resolution…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-11-17 Qi Shen , Shubin Liu , Binxiang Qi , Qi An , Shengkai Liao , Chengzhi Peng , Weiyue Liu

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

With the new generation of the RPC, it is possible to work with induced signals of hundreds $\mu V$, hence the front-end electronics is an important and delicate part of the detector in order to get a detectable signal. The electronic chain…

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