Recent developments and challenges in FPGA-based time-to-digital converters

R Machado, J Cabral, FS Alves - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Over the past few years, the gap between field-programmable gate array (FPGA) and
application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) performance levels has been narrowed due to …

Time-to-digital converter IP-core for FPGA at state of the art

F Garzetti, N Corna, N Lusardi, A Geraci - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) structure poses several constraints that make
the implementation of complex asynchronous circuits such as Time-Mode (TM) circuits …

Development and initial results of a brain PET insert for simultaneous 7-Tesla PET/MRI using an FPGA-only signal digitization method

JY Won, H Park, S Lee, JW Son… - … on Medical Imaging, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In study, we developed a positron emission tomography (PET) insert for simultaneous brain
imaging within 7-Tesla (7T) magnetic resonance (MR) imaging scanners. The PET insert …

From multiphase to novel single-phase multichannel shift-clock fast counter time-to-digital converter

N Lusardi, F Garzetti, A Costa… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With countless applications, time measurements are among industrial electronics' current
most important challenges. This is not a matter of precision, which by now standard …

Multichannel, low nonlinearity time-to-digital converters based on 20 and 28 nm FPGAs

H Chen, DDU Li - IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents low nonlinearity, compact, and multichannel time-to-digital converters
(TDC) in Xilinx 28 nm Virtex 7 and 20 nm UltraScale field-programmable gate arrays …

Efficient implementation of multiple time coding lines-based TDC in an FPGA device

P Kwiatkowski, R Szplet - IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents two principles that make multiple time coding lines (TCLs)-based time-
to-digital converter (TDC) implementation in field-programmable gate array (FPGA) device …

A low-resources TDC for multi-channel direct ToF readout based on a 28-nm FPGA

M Parsakordasiabi, I Vornicu, Á Rodríguez-Vázquez… - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
In this paper, we present a proposed field programmable gate array (FPGA)-based time-to-
digital converter (TDC) architecture to achieve high performance with low usage of …

Efficient time-to-digital converters in 20 nm FPGAs with wave union methods

W Xie, H Chen, DDU Li - IEEE Transactions on Industrial …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The wave union (WU) method is a well-known method in time-to-digital converters (TDCs)
and can improve TDC performances without consuming extra logic resources. However, an …

Estimating relationship between the time over threshold and energy loss by photons in plastic scintillators used in the J-PET scanner

S Sharma, J Chhokar, C Curceanu, E Czerwiński… - EJNMMI physics, 2020 - Springer
Purpose The time-over-threshold (TOT) technique is being used widely due to
itsimplications in developing the multi-channel readouts, mainly when fast signal processing …

An enhanced fuzzy controller based on improved genetic algorithm for speed control of DC motors

A Lotfy, M Kaveh, MR Mosavi, AR Rahmati - Analog Integrated Circuits and …, 2020 - Springer
Because of being imprecision and existence of uncertainty in input variables to fuzzy
systems, and also their easy implementation, fuzzy controllers are introduced as one of …