Picosecond precision time‐of‐flight digital converter
Time‐of‐flight (TOF) digital converter implemented in field programmable gate array has been introduced. The operation is based on train of pulses transmission and counting received pulses in bank of counters. The bank of counters clock signal and the transmitted pulses clock signal are slightly dif...
Saved in:
| Main Authors: | , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Wiley
2017-03-01
|
| Series: | Electronics Letters |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1049/el.2016.4485 |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
| _version_ | 1832096679452475392 |
|---|---|
| author | G. Wieczorek W. Oliwa |
| author_facet | G. Wieczorek W. Oliwa |
| author_sort | G. Wieczorek |
| collection | DOAJ |
| description | Time‐of‐flight (TOF) digital converter implemented in field programmable gate array has been introduced. The operation is based on train of pulses transmission and counting received pulses in bank of counters. The bank of counters clock signal and the transmitted pulses clock signal are slightly different in frequency. This small difference is a key factor for the measurement method and is achieved by phase locked loop. TOF for the transmitted pulses is directly calculated upon counters counts. Time interval resolution for the prototype instrument is 10.4 ps and average RMS uncertainty value is 12.3 ps. There is no need for special calibration. TOF digital converter requires minimum amount of resources and is suitable for low‐cost applications. |
| format | Article |
| id | doaj-art-83cd4152a8d94925a19de4172ab33da5 |
| institution | Kabale University |
| issn | 0013-5194 1350-911X |
| language | English |
| publishDate | 2017-03-01 |
| publisher | Wiley |
| record_format | Article |
| series | Electronics Letters |
| spelling | doaj-art-83cd4152a8d94925a19de4172ab33da52025-02-05T12:30:42ZengWileyElectronics Letters0013-51941350-911X2017-03-0153530430610.1049/el.2016.4485Picosecond precision time‐of‐flight digital converterG. Wieczorek0W. Oliwa1Faculty of Automatic Control, Electronics and Computer ScienceInstitute of ElectronicsSilesian University of TechnologyGliwicePolandFaculty of Automatic Control, Electronics and Computer ScienceInstitute of ElectronicsSilesian University of TechnologyGliwicePolandTime‐of‐flight (TOF) digital converter implemented in field programmable gate array has been introduced. The operation is based on train of pulses transmission and counting received pulses in bank of counters. The bank of counters clock signal and the transmitted pulses clock signal are slightly different in frequency. This small difference is a key factor for the measurement method and is achieved by phase locked loop. TOF for the transmitted pulses is directly calculated upon counters counts. Time interval resolution for the prototype instrument is 10.4 ps and average RMS uncertainty value is 12.3 ps. There is no need for special calibration. TOF digital converter requires minimum amount of resources and is suitable for low‐cost applications.https://doi.org/10.1049/el.2016.4485picosecond precision time‐of‐flight digital converterTOF digital converterfield programmable gate arraypulse transmissionbank of counter clock signaltransmitted pulses clock signal |
| spellingShingle | G. Wieczorek W. Oliwa Picosecond precision time‐of‐flight digital converter Electronics Letters picosecond precision time‐of‐flight digital converter TOF digital converter field programmable gate array pulse transmission bank of counter clock signal transmitted pulses clock signal |
| title | Picosecond precision time‐of‐flight digital converter |
| title_full | Picosecond precision time‐of‐flight digital converter |
| title_fullStr | Picosecond precision time‐of‐flight digital converter |
| title_full_unstemmed | Picosecond precision time‐of‐flight digital converter |
| title_short | Picosecond precision time‐of‐flight digital converter |
| title_sort | picosecond precision time of flight digital converter |
| topic | picosecond precision time‐of‐flight digital converter TOF digital converter field programmable gate array pulse transmission bank of counter clock signal transmitted pulses clock signal |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1049/el.2016.4485 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT gwieczorek picosecondprecisiontimeofflightdigitalconverter AT woliwa picosecondprecisiontimeofflightdigitalconverter |