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- Discusses important aspects of radiation-tolerant analog IC design, including realistic applications and radiation effects on ICs
- Demonstrates radiation-hardened-by-design techniques through a design-test-radiation assessment practice
- Describes a new type of Time-to-Digital (TDC) converter designed for radiation-tolerant application
- Explains the design and measurement of all functional blocks (e.g., bandgap reference, relaxation oscillator) in the TDC
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Analog Circuits and Signal Processing (ACSP)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book focuses on the design of a Mega-Gray (a standard unit of total ionizing radiation) radiation-tolerant ps-resolution time-to-digital converter (TDC) for a light detection and ranging (LIDAR) system used in a gamma-radiation environment. Several radiation-hardened-by-design (RHBD) techniques are demonstrated throughout the design of the TDC and other circuit techniques to improve the TDC's resolution in a harsh environment are also investigated. Readers can learn from scratch how to design a radiation-tolerant IC. Information regarding radiation effects, radiation-hardened design techniques and measurements are organized in such a way that readers can easily gain a thorough understanding of the topic. Readers will also learn the design theory behind the newly proposed delta-sigma TDC. Readers can quickly acquire knowledge about the design of radiation-hardened bandgap voltage references and low-jitter relaxation oscillators, which are introduced in the content from a designer's perspective.
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·        Discusses important aspects of radiation-tolerant analog IC design, including realistic applications and radiation effects on ICs;
·        Demonstrates radiation-hardened-by-design techniques through a design-test-radiation assessment practice;
·        Describes a new type of Time-to-Digital (TDC) converter designed for radiation-tolerant application;
·        Explains the design and measurement of all functional blocks (e.g., bandgap reference, relaxation oscillator) in the TDC.
Authors and Affiliations
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KU Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium
Ying Cao, Paul Leroux
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Department of Electrical Engineering, K.U. Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium
Michiel Steyaert
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Radiation-Tolerant Delta-Sigma Time-to-Digital Converters
Authors: Ying Cao, Paul Leroux, Michiel Steyaert
Series Title: Analog Circuits and Signal Processing
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11842-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-11841-3Published: 17 March 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-38529-7Published: 06 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-11842-0Published: 09 February 2015
Series ISSN: 1872-082X
Series E-ISSN: 2197-1854
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 114
Number of Illustrations: 56 b/w illustrations, 30 illustrations in colour
Topics: Circuits and Systems, Electronic Circuits and Devices, Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation