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Timing systems based on Analog-to-Digital Converters are widely used in the design of previous high energy physics detectors. In this paper, we propose a new method based on deep learning to extract the time information from a finite set of…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2019-04-02 Pengcheng Ai , Dong Wang , Guangming Huang , Ni Fang , Deli Xu , Fan Zhang

Novel electronic devices can often be operated in a plethora of ways, which makes testing circuits comprised of them difficult. Often, no single tool can simultaneously analyze the operating margins, maximum speed, and failure modes of a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-09-11 Reed A. Foster , Stephen Kandeh , Owen Medeiros , Alejandro Simon , Matteo Castellani , Karl K. Berggren

The purpose of this project was to design and implement a pipeline Analog-to-Digital Converter using 0.35um CMOS technology. Initial requirements of a 25-MHz conversion rate and 8-bits of resolution where the only given ones. Although…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2012-07-25 Moslem Rashidi , Mikael Hogrud , Donatas Siaudinis , Affaq Qamar , Imran Khan

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

We have developed a digital fast Fourier transform (FFT) spectrometer made of an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and a field-programmable gate array (FPGA). The base instrument has independent ADC and FPGA modules, which allow us to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-26 Kazumasa Iwai , Yûki Kubo , Hiromitsu Ishibashi , Takahiro Naoi , Kenichi Harada , Kenji Ema , Yoshinori Hayashi , Yuichi Chikahiro

This paper presents the design and testing of a time-stretching-based time-to-digital converter (TDC) implemented with discrete components. The TDC utilizes capacitor charging and discharging to achieve a time resolution of under 100 ps…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-06-23 Yanbo Chu , Zhicai Zhang

Adaptive systems based on field programmable gate array (FPGA) architectures can greatly benefi t fro m th e high degree of flexibility offered by dynamic partial reconfiguration (DPR). By using this technique, hardware tasks can be loaded…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-03-12 Marwa Hannachi , Abdesslam B. Abdelali , Hassan Rabah , Abdellatif Mtibaa

The aim of this study is to design and evaluate a simple free running Analog-Digital Converter (ADC) based on the Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) device to accomplish the energy and position readout of the silicon photomultiplier…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-08-19 Cong Ma , Xue Dong , Li Yu , Wubin Wang , Xiaokun Zhao , Xing Li , Zhenqing Huang , Guocheng Wu , Lei Lu , Hansheng Chen

Current-steering digital-to-analog converter (DAC) is a prominent architecture that is commonly used in high-speed applications such as optical communications. One of the shortcomings of this architecture is the output glitches that are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-10 Ramin Babaee , Shahab Oveis Gharan , Martin Bouchard

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

Analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) facilitate the conversion of analog signals into a digital format. While the specific designs and settings of ADCs can vary depending on their applications, it is crucial in many modern applications to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-19 Satish Mulleti , Timur Zirtiloglu , Arman Tan , Rabia Tugce Yazicigil , Yonina C. Eldar

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

Modern physics experiments often utilize FPGA-based systems for real-time data acquisition. Integrated analog electronics demand for complex calibration routines. Furthermore, versatile configuration and control of the whole system is a key…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-01 Nick Karcher , Richard Gebauer , Robin Bauknecht , Rainer Illichmann , Oliver Sander

A new design for an open-hardware Digital-to-Analog Converter System-on-Module is presented for low-noise ion-trap electrode control. The design specifications were established to fill the technical needs of a modular, scalable DC electrode…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Mitchell G. Peaks , Mia M. Kaarls , Crystal Noel

A new TDC-chip is under development for the COMPASS experiment at CERN. The ASIC, which exploits the 0.6 micrometer CMOS sea-of-gate technology, will allow high resolution time measurements with digitization of 75 ps, and an unprecedented…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Braun , H. Fischer , J. Franz , A. Grunemaier , F. H. Heinsius , K. Konigsmann , M. Schierloh , T. Schmidt , H. Schmitt , H. J. Urban

This article proposes a method for the measurement of Phase Noise (PN, or PM noise) and Amplitude Noise (AN, or AM noise) of Digital-to-Analog Converters (DAC) and Direct Digital Synthesizers (DDS) based on modulation-index amplification.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-01-28 Claudio E. Calosso , A. Carolina Cárdenas Olaya , Enrico Rubiola

This paper presents a fully integrated second-order level-crossing sampling data converter for real-time data compression and feature extraction. Compared with level-sampling ADCs which sample at fixed voltage levels, the proposed circuits…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-20 Mario Renteria-Pinon , Xiaochen Tang , Jaime Ramirez-Angulo , Wei Tang

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

This paper describes a pipelined analog-to-digital converter (ADC) employing a power and area efficient architecture. The adjacent stages of a pipeline share operational amplifiers. In order to keep accuracy of the amplifiers in the first…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-10-11 Yuri Bocharov , Vladimir Butuzov , Dmitry Osipov

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