Radiation Hardened CMOS Integrated Circuits for Time-Based Signal Processing

• Main Authors: Prinzie, Jeffrey (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Steyaert, Michiel (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Leroux, Paul (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Analog Circuits and Signal Processing,
• Subjects: Electronic circuits.; Signal processing.; Image processing.; Speech processing systems.; Electronics.; Microelectronics.; Circuits and Systems.; Signal, Image and Speech Processing.; Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation.

This book presents state-of-the-art techniques for radiation hardened high-resolution Time-to-Digital converters and low noise frequency synthesizers. Throughout the book, advanced degradation mechanisms and error sources are discussed and several ways to prevent such errors are presented. An overvi...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Radiation Effects in CMOS Technology
• Time-Domain Signal Processing
• Clock Synthesizers
• Single Shot Time-to-Digital Converters
• Low Jitter Clock Generators
• Radiation experiments on CMOS PLLs
• Radiation Hard Frequency Synthesizers
• Conclusion.