title: Multichannel low power time-to-digital converter card with 21 ps precision and full scale range up to 10 μs.
abstract: We present a Time-to-Digital Converter (TDC) card with a compact form factor, suitable for multichannel timing instruments or for integration into more complex systems. The TDC Card provides 10 ps timing resolution over the whole measurement range, which is selectable from 160 ns up to 10 μs, reaching 21 ps rms precision, 1.25% LSB rms differential nonlinearity, up to 3 Mconversion/s with 400 mW power consumption. The I/O edge card connector provides timing data readout through either a parallel bus or a 100 MHz serial interface and further measurement information like input signal rate and valid conversion rate (typically useful for time-correlated single-photon counting application) through an independent serial link.
authors.affiliation: Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Piazza Leonardo Da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, Italy.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Tamborini
authors.affiliation: Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Piazza Leonardo Da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, Italy.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Portaluppi
authors.affiliation: Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Piazza Leonardo Da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, Italy.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Villa
authors.affiliation: Micro Photon Devices, via Stradivari 4, 39100 Bolzano, Italy.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tisa
authors.affiliation: Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Piazza Leonardo Da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, Italy.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tosi