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

• Main Authors: Cao, Ying (Author), Leroux, Paul (Author), Steyaert, Michiel (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Analog Circuits and Signal Processing,
• Subjects: Engineering.; Electronic circuits.; Electronics.; Microelectronics.; Circuits and Systems.; Electronic Circuits and Devices.; Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation.

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...

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.