A NEW ADC CIRCUIT FOR NUCLEAR SPECTROSCOPY BASED ON DIGITAL SIGNAL-PROCESSING TECHNIQUES

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 1990

Authors

CORREIA, CMBA (Author) Other; MARTINS, JC (Author) Other

Journal

Title: NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT

Vol. 290

Pages: 445-449

ISSN: 0168-9002

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Authenticus ID: P-001-RRT

DOI: 10.1016/0168-9002(90)90562-k

Abstract (EN): A 12-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC) circuit for nuclear spectroscopy applications was developed using a digital signal processor (DSP) as the central processing element. The DSP runs a program that builds the distribution function of data collected by the ADC (the multichannel analyzer algorithm) and simultaneously corrects the ADC differential nonlinearity (DNL) by the sliding scale method. The acquisition routine runs in ¿4 ¿s. The conversion time, when the faster versions of the ADC are used, is well below 10 ¿s. The resulting DNL is better than 0.4% and the integral nonlinearity <0.002%. © 1990.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 5