A high resolution TDC subsystem

Author

Geiges, Rainer ; Merle, Klaus

Author_Institution

Inst. fur Kernphys., Mainz Univ., Germany

Volume

41

Issue

1

fYear

1994

fDate

2/1/1994 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

232

Lastpage

235

Abstract

A high resolution TDC subsystem was developed at the Institute for Nuclear Physics in Mainz. The TDC chip offers a time resolution of less than 300 ps and a programmable measurement range from O to 16 μsec. The time measurement is done with a new, purely digital counting method. The chip can be operated in common start or common stop mode. In common start mode the chip is able to store up to 4 multiple hits per channel. The chip is used to build a transputer controlled subsystem for the measurement of the drift times of a vertical drift chamber. The design of the subsystem will be described and the first results from the tests of the prototype system will be presented

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; application specific integrated circuits; digital integrated circuits; physics computing; timing circuits; transputer systems; 300 ps; CMOS technology; TDC 2001 chip; common start mode; common stop mode; digital counting method; drift times; high resolution TDC subsystem; time resolution; vertical drift chamber; CMOS technology; Calibration; Collaboration; Frequency synthesizers; Nuclear physics; Physics computing; Prototypes; Semiconductor device measurement; System testing; Time measurement;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/23.281496

Filename

281496