Radiation-Tolerant Delta-Sigma Time-to-Digital Converters

This book focuses on the design of a Mega-Gray (a standard unit of total ionizing radiation) radiation-tolerant ps-resolution time-to-digital converter (TDC) for a light detection and ranging (LIDAR) system used in a gamma-radiation environment. Several radiation-hardened-by-design (RHBD) techniques...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Cao, Ying, Leroux, Paul (Author), Steyaert, Michiel (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2015, 2015
Edition:1st ed. 2015
Series:Analog Circuits and Signal Processing
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Background on Time-to-Digital Converters
  • Radiation-Hardened-by-Design
  • The MASH DS Time-to-Digital Converter
  • Radiation Hardened Bandgap References
  • Low-Jitter Relaxation Oscillators
  • Conclusions