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News Release from: Acqiris USA | Subject: TC840
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 02 March 2006
Time-to-digital convertor has 13
channels
Acqiris now offers a wide-range single- and multi-start time-to-digital convertor (TDC) module, expanding the company's extensive product line.
Acqiris now offers a wide-range single- and multi-start time-to-digital convertor (TDC) module, expanding the company's extensive product line The new Acqiris TC840 CompactPCI module, with 50ps timing resolution, is designed specifically for use in large scale experiments, including hydrodynamics, particle accelerator timing, nuclear fusion studies and explosives testing, as well as in time-of-flight measurement in mass spectrometry and 3D mapping
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 16 Aug 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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In addition, the TC840 features inputs with programmable thresholds, making the module ideal for measuring the time of the rising or falling edge of very fast trigger events.
The TC840, a wide-range, single- and multi-start TDC, has 13 identical hardware channels.
12 channels are independent stop inputs; the 13th is the common start.
The module can operate in either single-start or multi-start acquisition modes with the timing information on all the independent channels encoded relative to the common channel.
The TC840's wide operating range allows start/stop events separated by as much as 20s to be recorded, and the large internal buffer allows the recording of up to 512 stops per channel.
Time measurement on the TC840 can be based on either the internal low jitter (less then 3ps RMS), high stability (+/-2ppm) clock source, or an external 10MHz reference input.
Digitised data is fed directly to the onboard FPGA-based data processing unit.
This handles the data and subsequent fast readout with direct memory access (DMA) mode, for increased data throughput to the PC.
Pricing for the TC840 wide range single- and multi-start time-to-digital convertor starts at $11,990.
Delivery is six weeks ARO.
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