Development of a CMOS integrated zero-crossing discriminator using analog continuous-time division
Conference
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OSTI ID:512941
- Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH (Germany)
High resolution time spectroscopy experiments require circuit techniques that accurately mark the time arrival of events regardless of their amplitude. For this purpose zero-crossing techniques are generally used because of their independence of the signal amplitude. Since the output response of real voltage comparators is related to the input signal slope and overdrive, even these time-pickoff methods are burdened by an amplitude dependent time walk. Therefore a new time-pickoff circuit is proposed using analog continuous-time division to eliminate the undesired amplitude information. Based on a standard CMOS technology a first test version has been developed that is still under production. First promising SPICE simulations using the simulation parameters of an inexpensive 1.2 {mu}m CMOS technology have shown a time walk fairly below 200 ps (FWHM) over a 40 dB amplitude range and for input signal risetimes of 2 to 3 ns.
- OSTI ID:
- 512941
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-961123--
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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