Title :
ASICs for spectrometry
Author :
Goursky, Vsevolod ; Gallice, Pierre ; Kaiser, Josef ; Hantelle, Gérard ; Schmit, Renaud
Author_Institution :
CENS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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;
Journal_Title :
Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on
