Recent developments and design challenges of high-performance ring oscillator CMOS time-to-digital converters

Z Cheng, X Zheng, MJ Deen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Time-to-digital converters (TDCs) are increasingly used as building blocks in biomedical
imaging, digital communication, and measurement instrumentation systems. When …

Time-to-digital converter and method therefor

P Kumar, R Staszewski, E Charbon - US Patent 9,419,635, 2016 - Google Patents
G0IB II/24(2006.01)(57) ABSTRACT H03M I/00(2006.01) 3D imager including at least one
pixel, each pixel including a GOIT IMI64(2006.01) photodetector for detecting photon …

Effect of supplemental feed type on water quality, plankton and benthos availability and carp (Cyprinus carpio L.) growth in semi‐intensive monoculture ponds

M Ćirić, G Subakov‐Simić, Z Dulić… - Aquaculture …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
A four‐and‐a‐half months study was conducted in nine earthen ponds to evaluate the
addition of different supplemental feeds as a management tool for enhancing natural food …

Single-photon sampling architecture for solid-state imaging sensors

E van den Berg, E Candes, G Chinn… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
Advances in solid-state technology have enabled the development of silicon photomultiplier
sensor arrays capable of sensing individual photons. Combined with high-frequency time-to …

Dark count impact for first photon discriminators for SPAD digital arrays in PET

MA Tétrault, AC Therrien, ED Lamy… - … on Nuclear Science, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To increase contrast in positron emission tomography (PET) images, researchers are
investigating detectors that reach below the nanosecond timing resolution. This allows a …

A high resolution time-to-digital converter on FPGA for Time-Correlated Single Photon Counting

Q Yuan, B Zhang, J Wu… - 2012 IEEE 55th …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Time-Correlated Single Photon Counting (TCSPC) can provide not only the time information
of a photon, but also the photon density information. Based on the conclusion of usual time …

[HTML][HTML] Neural imaging using single-photon avalanche diodes

MA Karami, M Ansarian - Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Methods: The neural imaging process using SPADs can be performed by means of
florescence lifetime imaging (FLIM), time correlated single-photon counting (TCSPC) …

LiDAR system using MEMS scanner-based coaxial optical transceiver

Y Wang, P Tang, L Shen, S Pu - 2020 IEEE 5th Optoelectronics …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present a time-of-flight LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) system built
with MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical System) scanner-based coaxial optical transceiver …

A hybrid time to digital converter based on digital delay locked loop and analog time to amplitude converter

I Malass, W Uhring, JP Le Normand… - 2017 29th …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents the simulations and characterizations results of a hybrid Time to Digital
Converter (TDC) fabricated in 180 nm standard CMOS. The design combines the traditional …

15bit Time-to-Digital Converters with 0.9% DNLrms and 160ns FSR for single-photon imagers

B Markovic, S Bellisai, FA Villa - 2011 7th Conference on Ph. D …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a high precision Time-to-Digital Converter (TDC) architecture suitable for multi-
channel implementations in monolithic arrays of single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) …