An Analog to Digital Converter Capable of Nanosecond Resolution

Journal Article · Tue Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1963 · IEEE (Inst. Elec. Electron. Engrs.) Trans. Nucl. Sci.

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/TNS.1963.4323240· OSTI ID:4751732

Fleischer, A A; Johnson, E

Circuitry has been designed and constructed which is able to analyze and reproduce accurately the slope and pulse height at various points along a rapidly changing signal which occurs only once. The signal is analyzed at 10-nanosecond intervals. This circuitry is also able to sense a zero slope per unit time and in this mode it can be used as a multichannel pulse height analyzer with a dead-time which is dependent only on the rise time of the pulses it is analyzing (pulse pair resolution of 10-7 seconds for random pulses with a 0.1-¿sec rise time is possible). The model under discussion has a maximum storage capacity of 160 channels with 28 bits of information per channel.

• Research Organization: Edgerton, Germeshausen and Grier, Inc., Santa Barbara, Calif.
• NSA Number: NSA-17-016878
• OSTI ID: 4751732
• Journal Information: IEEE (Inst. Elec. Electron. Engrs.) Trans. Nucl. Sci., Journal Name: IEEE (Inst. Elec. Electron. Engrs.) Trans. Nucl. Sci. Vol. Vol: NS- 10
• Country of Publication: Country unknown/Code not available
• Language: English

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