Clock distribution board for the 4πβ-γ coincidence counting system

Author

Haomi Wang ; Kezhu Song ; Junfeng Yang ; Ping Cao ; Keli Zhang

Author_Institution

Dept. of Modern Phys., Univ. of Sci. & Technol. of China, Hefei, China

fYear

2012

fDate

9-15 June 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Clock distribution system is an important part for Digital Coincidence Platform (DCP) which is used in 4πβ (LSC)-γ national benchmarks of the China Institute of Metrology. In this paper, the clock distribution was designed and produced by using the AD9524 chip and the external VCXO. The clock distribution board also generate sine wave signal for system test with the DDS chip AD9852 and trigger a synchronization signal to acquisition board through the PXI star trigger bus. The results show that the output to output skew of the clock is less than 50ps and the jitter of the clock signal is as low as 26ps.

Keywords

analogue-digital conversion; clock distribution networks; coincidence circuits; jitter; nuclear electronics; signal generators; synchronisation; 4pi-beta-gamma coincidence counting system; AD9524 chip; DCP; PXI star trigger bus; acquisition board; clock distribution board; clock output to output skew; clock signal jitter; digital coincidence platform; external VCXO; sine wave signal generation; synchronization signal; Clocks; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Jitter; Phase locked loops; Software; Synchronization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Real Time Conference (RT), 2012 18th IEEE-NPSS

Conference_Location

Berkeley, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1082-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RTC.2012.6418157

Filename

6418157