1.2 GHz GaAs shift register IC for dead-time-less TDC application

Author

Sasaki, O. ; Taniguchi, T. ; Ohska, T.K. ; Mori, H. ; Nonaka, T. ; Kaminishi, K. ; Tsukuda, A. ; Nishimura, H. ; Takeda, M. ; Kawakami, Y.

Author_Institution

Nat. Lab. for High Energy Phys., Ibaraki, Japan

Volume

36

Issue

1

fYear

1989

fDate

2/1/1989 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

512

Lastpage

516

Abstract

A 1.2 GHz GaAs shift register integrated circuit (IC) was developed for time-to-digital convertor (TDC) readout electronics with no deadtime for a drift chamber under high hit rate condition. The memory depth was 256, making it possible to obtain sufficient delay time for a trigger decision. The preproduction ICs successfully functioned with up to a 1.2 GHz shift clock with a power consumption less than 1.2 W

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; analogue-digital conversion; digital integrated circuits; field effect integrated circuits; gallium arsenide; nuclear electronics; position sensitive particle detectors; proportional counters; shift registers; 1.2 GHz; GaAs; deadtime; drift chamber; memory depth; power consumption; readout electronics; shift clock; shift register integrated circuit; time-to-digital convertor; trigger decision; Application specific integrated circuits; Clocks; Costs; Delay effects; Energy consumption; Gallium arsenide; Power dissipation; Random access memory; Readout electronics; Shift registers;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/23.34492

Filename

34492