ASICs for spectrometry

Author

Goursky, Vsevolod ; Gallice, Pierre ; Kaiser, Josef ; Hantelle, Gérard ; Schmit, Renaud

Author_Institution

CENS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Volume

35

Issue

1

fYear

1988

Firstpage

181

Lastpage

183

Abstract

The design of three application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) dedicated to nuclear spectrometry is discussed. APLO1 is a bipolar linear gate that can be used either as a peak-amplitude-to-time converter, or as a 50-ns sample-and-hold circuit CDN 400 is an ECL Wilkinson-type time-to-digital converter operating at a 600-MHz clock frequency, DMI00 is a CMOS direct-memory-increment circuit with four independent channels and histogram capability. A high-performances multichannel analyzer on a single IBM-PC board has been designed for use with these circuits.<>

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; bipolar integrated circuits; 50-ns sample-and-hold circuit; 600-MHz clock frequency; APLO1; ASICs for spectrometry; CDN 400; CMOS direct-memory-increment circuit; DMI00; ECL Wilkinson-type time-to-digital converter; application-specific integrated circuits; bipolar linear gate; histogram capability; independent channels; peak-amplitude-to-time converter; Application specific integrated circuits; Clocks; Electronics packaging; Feedback; Instruments; Pulse generation; Signal generators; Spectroscopy; Standby generators; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/23.12701

Filename

12701