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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

In the scope of the COMPASS experiment a multi-purpose, high rate capable TDC with digitisation width of 60 ps has been developed. The integration into the readout system and the flexible input of the CATCH readout driver is presented.

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-11-17 H. Fischer , J. Franz , A. Grunemaier , F. H. Heinsius , L. Hennig , K. Konigsmann , M. Niebuhr , T. Schmidt , H. Schmitt , H. J. Urban

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

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

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

Positron emission tomography (PET) is a medical imaging method based on the measurement of concentrations of positron-emitting radionuclides in a living body. In the PET imaging system, glucose is labeled with a positron-emitting…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-27 Mehmet Akif Ozdemir , Ali Tangel

We present the design of a new $\mu$TCA-based waveform digitizer, which will be deployed in the Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab and will allow our pileup identification requirement to be met. This digitizer features five independent…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-12-16 David A. Sweigart

High-speed high-resolution Analog-to-Digital Conversion is the key part for waveform digitization in physics experiments and many other domains. This paper presents a new fully digital correction of mismatch errors among the channels in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-20 Zouyi Jiang , Lei Zhao , Xingshun Gao , Ruoshi Dong , Jinxin Liu , Qi An

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…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-09-25 Lei Zhao , Zouyi Jiang , Ruoshi Dong , Zhe Cao , Xingshun Gao , Boyu Cheng , Jiadong Hu , Shubin Liu , Qi An

With the advent of the 5G wireless networks, achieving tens of gigabits per second throughputs and low, milliseconds, latency has become a reality. This level of performance will fuel numerous real-time applications, such as autonomy and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-14 Ashkan Samiee , Yiming Zhou , Tingyi Zhou , Bahram Jalali

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

The burgeoning interest within the space community in digital beamforming is largely attributable to the superior flexibility that satellites with active antenna systems offer for a wide range of applications, notably in communication…

The prototype of a TDC board has been developed for the new high granular time-of-flight neutron detector (HGND). The board is based on the standard LVDS 4x asynchronous oversampling using the xc7k160 FPGA with a 100 ps bin width. The HGND…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-01-23 D. Finogeev , F. Guber , A. Izvestnyy , N. Karpushkin , A. Makhnev , S. Morozov , D. Serebryakov

This work presents the 8-channel FastIC+, a low-power consumption and highly configurable multi-channel front-end ASIC with internal digitization, for the readout of photo-sensors with picosecond time resolution and intrinsic gain. This…

Radiation hard helium gas ionization chambers capable of operating in vacuum at temperatures ranging from 5K to 350K have been designed, fabricated and tested and will be used inside the cryostats at Fermilab's Superconducting…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2012-10-01 A. Warner , J. Wu

Transformer decoding is constrained by both attention compute and KV-cache movement. This paper presents the Ferroelectric Charge-Domain Compute Cell (FCDC), a hafnium-zirconium-oxide (HZO) memcapacitor with an access device that stores…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Faris Abouagour

Transition metal oxides (TMOs) and post-TMOs (PTMOs), when doped with Carbon, show non-volatile current-voltage (I-V) characteristics, which are both universal and repeatable. We have shown spectroscopic evidence of the introduction of…

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…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-14 Guangyuan Yuan , Zhe cao , Shuwen Wang , Shubin Liu , Qi An

Time interleaved analog-to-digital conversion (TIADC) based on parallelism is an effective way to meet the requirement of the ultra-fast waveform digitizer beyond Gsps. Different methods to correct the mismatch errors among different…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-16 Chunfeng Ye , Lei Zhao , Changqing Feng , Shubin Liu , Qi An

This paper proposes an analog orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) architecture based on the real-time Fourier transform (RTFT). The core enabling component is a linear-chirp phaser with engineered group velocity dispersion…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-05 Xiaolu Yang , Oscar Céspedes Vicente , Christophe Caloz