Hi Are you after 12 ns or 12 ps?
Bob -----Original Message----- From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Ben Gamari Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 12:18 PM To: David; Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: [time-nuts] Experience with THS788 from TI? On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 09:44:14 -0500, David <davidwh...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am surprised it is not more accurate and precise. Even old discrete > designs can get down to 10ps or better. I wonder what market it is > for where space is at that much of a premium. > Out of curiosity, would you happen to have an example of discrete TDC design? Recently I've been exploring the TDC design space as these devices are a critical part of our experiments (I do spectroscopy of biological molecules). I'm currently (slowly) working on a FPGA TDC design (based on the PandaDAQ[1] and CERN's Spartan 6 TDC design) but it seems it will be non-trivial to get down to the 12 ns the commercial offerings provide (although at great cost). What would a discrete TDC design look like? Are there any designs in the open? Cheers, - Ben [1] http://www.keteu.org/~haunma/proj/pandadaq/ [2] http://www.ohwr.org/projects/tdc-core/wiki _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.