A novel time-to-digital converter with 150 ps time resolution and 2.5 ns pulse-pair resolution

Author

Andaloussi, Mohamed Serraj ; Boukadoum, Mounir ; Aboulhamid, El-Mostapha

Author_Institution

Univ. du Quebec a Montreal, Que., Canada

fYear

2002

fDate

11-13 Dec. 2002

Firstpage

123

Lastpage

126

Abstract

A novel time-to-digital converter (TDC) architecture, based on a two-dimensional time-delay matrix is presented. This architecture offers the advantage, over using a regular linear time-delay chain, of minimal pulse-pair resolution and dead time. The architecture was implemented on a XCV300 Virtex FPGA from Xilinx. The resulting TDC allows time measurements over a 21-ms interval with 150 ps resolution, and 2.5 ns maximum pulse-pair resolution and dead time.

Keywords

CMOS digital integrated circuits; delay lines; field programmable gate arrays; integrated circuit design; time measurement; time of flight mass spectrometers; 150 ps; 2.5 ns; 21 ms; FPGA; TDC; dead time; field programmable gate array; linear time-delay chain; mass spectrometer; pulse-pair resolution; time measurement; time of flight; time resolution; time-delay matrix; time-to-digital converter; Application specific integrated circuits; Decoding; Delay lines; Field programmable gate arrays; Latches; Matrix converters; Propagation delay; Pulse circuits; Pulse measurements; Time measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microelectronics, The 14th International Conference on 2002 - ICM

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7573-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICM-02.2002.1161511

Filename

1161511