EP0165108A1 - Ultraschneller zeitnumerischer Umformer - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a time-to-digital converter, that is to say a device intended to supply a digital value representing the time elapsed between the reception of a start signal and the reception of a stop signal.
- the field of application of the invention is notably, but not exclusively, that of very short time measurement in high-energy physical nuclear electronics, nuclear physics, or nuclear medicine.
- the converter according to the invention is particularly suitable for measuring the collection time intervals at the ends of particle detectors.
- time-to-digital converters are essentially of two types.
- the former use a capacitor which is charged at constant current for the duration to be measured, the charge level then being digitized; these converters are generally precise, but of a complex structure.
- the second are based on the use of reference clocks; they are also of complex structure and their precision is linked to that of the clock.
- the present invention aims to provide a time-to-digital converter having a simple structure allowing it to be produced in the form of an integrated circuit.
- the present invention also aims to provide an ultra-fast time-digital converter, that is to say having a very short response time.
- the present invention is based on the use, as a time reference, of the propagation times of logic signals in an integrated circuit.
- the new integrated circuit technologies in the present case the manufacture of networks of prediffused doors, ensure, within the same sample, dispersions of the order of a few percent on sets of logical doors. several thousand units.
- the measurement is carried out by inhibiting, following reception of the stop signal, the propagation of the start signal in a chain of doors.
- This inhibition can be achieved in several ways.
- the locking circuit comprises a second chain of doors which is formed on the same integrated circuit substrate and at one end of which the stop signal is received, the two chains forming paths parallel with connections between the doors of the first chain and the doors of the second chain so that the state of the doors of at least one of the two chains is locked when the starting signal propagating along the first chain and the stop signal propagating along the second chain met.
- the configuration of the doors of the first chain, as well as possibly that of the doors of the second chain is representative of the time to be measured.
- the converter is provided with coding means having inputs connected to the doors of at least one of the chains to provide a digital measurement value depending on the state of these doors.
- the directions of propagation of the start signal and the stop signal along the two parallel chains can be opposite to each other or identical. In the latter case, the propagation time through the doors of the first chain is greater than the propagation time through the doors of the second chain so that the stop signal can "catch up" with the start signal.
- the locking circuit comprises a set of paths each formed between a common input receiving the stop signal and a respective gate of the chain of propagation of the start signal.
- the stop signal is applied almost simultaneously to the different doors so that the state of the chain is frozen upon receipt of the stop signal.
- Means for reading the state of the gates of the propagation chain of the starting signal are provided to provide a digital value representative of the time to be measured.
- the converter according to the invention makes it possible to give the result of the measurement of very short times in an ultra-fast manner.
- An additional advantage is that the converter can be implemented as an integrated circuit.
- the converter of FIG. 1 comprises two chains of doors 10 and 15 similar, formed parallel to one another but with opposite directions of propagation.
- the door chains are formed from a network of pre-diffused doors on the same integrated circuit substrate.
- Each door 11 of the chain 1a has a first input connected to a non-inverting output of the previous door 11 and a second input connected to the inverting output of an associated door 16 of the chain 15.
- the latter has a first input connected to the non-inverting output of the previous door 16 and a second input connected to the inverting output of the associated door 11.
- Each door 11 is thus associated with a door 16, and vice versa.
- the term "gate" is used here to designate a logic circuit through which an incoming signal may or may not be propagated depending on the state of a control signal which may also be received by this circuit.
- a start signal sd is applied to the input end 12 of the door chain 10 in the form, for example, of a transition from low logic level to high logic level at an instant t1.
- a stop signal is applied to the input end 17 of the door chain 15 also in the form of a transition from low logic level to high logic level at an instant t2.
- the inputs 12 and 17 are located at opposite ends of the chains 10 and 15, the signals sd and sa propagating in opposite directions. Each time the signal sd crosses a door 11, the corresponding door 16 is blocked. Likewise, each time the signal sa passes through a door 16, the corresponding door 11 is blocked.
- the coding circuit can be arranged to directly deliver a binary digital word giving on N bits a value proportional to ⁇ t.
- the least significant bit of the word supplied by the converter is 2 t pd .
- the dispersion ⁇ t pd of the propagation times per integrated circuit gate must satisfy:
- the maximum number N of significant bits that the converter can supply is such that:
- T being the value of the full scale of the converter.
- the value of the least significant bit is here equal to 2 td. A reduction in this value in order to improve the precision or the fineness of the measurement requires a reduction in the propagation time per gate.
- FIG. 2 illustrates another embodiment of a converter according to the invention with which the least significant bit has a value which can be less than the propagation time per gate.
- the start signal sd is applied to the input end 22 of a first chain 20 of doors 21 similar to the chain 10 of the converter of FIG. 1.
- the stop signal sa is applied to the end of input 27 of a second chain 25 of transmission doors 26.
- Each door 26 is arranged to systematically transmit the signal which is present on its signal input, the latter being connected to its control input.
- Each input of a door 26 is connected to an input of a door 23 whose inverting output is connected to an input of an associated door 21.
- the other input of this door 21 is connected to the non-inverting output of the previous door 21 while the other input of the door 23 is connected to the inverting output of the associated door 21.
- a door 26 is associated with each pair of doors 21 - 23.
- the starting signal sd is applied to the input 22 at time t1 and propagates along the chain 20. It will be noted that the crossing of each door 21 by the signal sd is accompanied by. blocking of the associated door 23.
- the stop signal sa is applied to the input 27 at time t2 and propagates along the chain 25. The propagation along this chain is faster than that along the chain 20 so that the signal sa can catch up with the starting signal. As soon as the signal meets door 23 not blocked, it passes through it in order to be able to block the corresponding door 21, thus blocking the propagation of the starting signal.
- the signal sa continues to be propagated along the chain 25, successively blocking the doors of the chain 20 not crossed by the start signal.
- the coding circuit 29 can be arranged to supply the number m in the form of a binary digital word.
- the least significant bit of the word supplied by the converter is t1 pd - t2 pd ; it can therefore take a value less than t1 pd and t2p d .
- condition (1) Regarding the dispersions ot1 pd and ⁇ t2 pd on the propagation times, we find condition (1) with: also finds the relation (2) giving the number of bits N.
- the pre-broadcast networks currently available have propagation times per gate less than a nanosecond and dispersions of less than a few tens of picoseconds.
- the converter of FIG. 2 allows under these conditions a coding on 5 bits with a low weight equal to 500 ps and a full scale of 16 ns.
- this is a common advantage to all of the embodiments of the invention, the result is available very quickly.
- FIG. 2 also shows means for adjusting the converter.
- each chain 20, 25 is connected a series of transmission doors, respectively 20a, 25a.
- the starting signal is applied to an input terminal 22a which is connected to the input of a switching circuit 24, the outputs of which are connected to respective inputs of the doors 21a of the suite 20a.
- the stop signal is applied to an input terminal 27a which is connected to the input of a switching circuit 28, the outputs of which are connected to respective inputs of the doors 26a of the sequence 25a.
- Each switching circuit has a control input for selecting one of the outputs.
- the zero adjustment is carried out by positioning the routing circuits so that the response of the converter is equal to zero when the signals sd and sa are applied simultaneously to the terminals 22a and 27a.
- a decoding circuit 20b is arranged at the end of the chain 20 opposite to that of the input, this decoding circuit 20b having inputs connected to the non-inverting outputs of several doors 21.
- the converter operating on N bits the chain 20 comprises at least 2N gates 21.
- the number of gates 21 is chosen a little greater than 2N, for example equal to 2N + k and the decoding circuit 20b receives the outputs of the 2k + 1 last doors in the chain.
- the propagation time per gate, here t1 pd is a function of the supply voltage of the integrated circuit.
- the decoding circuit 20b is it used to supply a control quantity for adjusting the supply voltage, so that full scale is just reached when two reference signals sd and sa are applied with a time interval equal to full scale, the coding circuit 29 being connected to the first 2N doors of chain 21.
- FIG. 3 illustrates another embodiment of a converter according to the invention in which the propagation of the starting signal in a chain of doors is stopped by the parallel blocking of the doors of the chain in response to the reception of the signal d 'stop.
- the start signal sd is received at the input end 32 of a chain 30 of doors 31 while the stop signal sa is applied to a terminal 37 in parallel on the first door inputs 33 each associated with a respective door 31.
- the connections of the gates 31 and 33 are identical to those of the gates 21 and 23 of the converter of FIG. 2, the gates 31 and 33 being formed on the same integrated circuit substrate from a network of prediffused gates.
- each door 31 by the signal sd is accompanied by the blocking of the associated door 33.
- the stop signal passes through the doors 33 not yet blocked to block the associated doors 31 and thus stop the propagation of the signal sd.
- the state of the doors of the chain 30 is a linear function of the time interval At separating the instants t1 and t2 of reception of the signals sd and sa. This state is read directly from the non-inverting outputs of the gates 31 and converted into the form of a digital word by means of a coding circuit 39.
- the least significant bit 6t of the word supplied by the converter is equal to t pd , that is to say the propagation time per gate of the chain 30.
- t pd the propagation time per gate of the chain 30.
- condition (1) is weaker by a factor 2 1/2 than condition (1), because there is only one propagation in a single chain. However, an additional dispersion is introduced because the locking of the doors 31 of the chain 30 cannot be exactly simultaneous.
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| AT85400870T ATE41713T1 (de) | 1984-05-11 | 1985-05-06 | Ultraschneller zeitnumerischer umformer. |
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| FR8407344A FR2564216B1 (fr) | 1984-05-11 | 1984-05-11 | Convertisseur temps-numerique ultrarapide |
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| ATE41713T1 (de) | 1989-04-15 |
| US4719608A (en) | 1988-01-12 |
| EP0165108B1 (de) | 1989-03-22 |
| DE3569049D1 (en) | 1989-04-27 |
| JPS60253994A (ja) | 1985-12-14 |
| FR2564216A1 (fr) | 1985-11-15 |
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