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HPTDC high performance time to digital converter

Christiansen, 2004

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12428133057504713819
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Christiansen J
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The High Performance general purpose TDC (HPTDC) is based on a series of TDC's developed in the Micro electronics group at CERN. Previous versions of general purpose TDC's have shown that the concept of a programmable TDC is highly appreciated in the …
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