Development of monolithic time-to-amplitude converter for high precision TOF measurement

Author

Tanaka, Manobu ; Ikeda, Hirokazu ; Ikeda, Mitsuo ; Inaba, Susumu

Author_Institution

Nat. Lab. for High Energy Phys., Tsukuba, Japan

Volume

38

Issue

2

fYear

1991

fDate

4/1/1991 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

301

Lastpage

305

Abstract

A monolithic time-to-amplitude converter (TAC) integrated circuit was designed and fabricated with a semicustom bipolar IC technology. A 16-channel CAMAC TDC (time-to-digital converter) module was fabricated with this integrated circuit to be used for a time-of-flight (TOF) measurement with a scintillation counter system. Its resolution was designed to be 50 ps, and the temperature coefficient of the TAC IC was negligibly small based on a simulation. This performance was achieved by using the differential TAC technique

Keywords

CAMAC; bipolar integrated circuits; convertors; nuclear electronics; physics computing; scintillation counters; time of flight spectra; 16-channel CAMAC TDC; TAC; differential TAC technique; high precision TOF measurement; integrated circuit; monolithic time-to-amplitude converter; resolution; scintillation counter; semicustom bipolar IC technology; temperature coefficient; time-of-flight; time-to-digital converter; Analog integrated circuits; Energy consumption; Energy measurement; Integrated circuit measurements; Laboratories; Monolithic integrated circuits; Scintillation counters; Temperature; Time measurement; Wire;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/23.289314

Filename

289314