Tradeoffs in Time-to-Digital Converter Architectures for Harsh Radiation Environments

Autor:	Jeffrey Prinzie, Bjorn Van Bockel, Paul Leroux
Rok vydání:	2021
Předmět:	Computer science Transistor Detector Hardware_PERFORMANCEANDRELIABILITY Converters Radiation Compensation (engineering) law.invention Time-to-digital converter Phase-locked loop law Electronic engineering Electrical and Electronic Engineering Instrumentation Electronic circuit
Zdroj:	IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement. 70:1-10
ISSN:	1557-9662 0018-9456
DOI:	10.1109/tim.2021.3100355
Popis:	Performance degradation of standard time-to-digital converters (TDCs) is inevitable due to the effects of ionizing radiation. In this article, the tradeoffs of different mitigation techniques for TDC architectures are presented. As the effect of radiation is challenging for such high-performance circuits in the state-of-the-art technologies, architectures that can compensate for radiation effects have become a necessity for TDCs to operate in these harsh radiation environments. By looking into the functionality of different architectures focusing on improving radiation tolerance, the main weak and strong points of different TDC architectures, including the compensation circuitry, are described. Possible solutions to those weak points are presented.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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