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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"TDC"”.
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RO-Based TDC Design with Configurable Resolution and Power for SPAD-Based TCSPC LiDAR Applications
… (ToF) using CMOS time-to-digital Converters (TDCs) for compact, low-cost, and highly integrated three-dimensional (3D) sensing. The TDC specifications are critical determinants of the system's range, resolution, and accuracy. The optimization of the TDCs requires modeling that captures the …
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Modeling Total Delivered Cost in the Automotive Industry
… the development of a new Total Delivered Cost (TDC) methodology for automotive part sourcing at Nissan. Initially, a calculation methodology was developed using operational data from the Nissan Smyrna plant. This methodology, which aims at capturing the direct and indirect costs of sourcing, …
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Tourism destination competitiveness, globalization, and strategic development from a development economics perspective
… Studies on tourism destination competitiveness (TDC) have emerged to explain how tourism destinations can achieve competitiveness and enhance economic and social development. Although tourism literature has developed conceptual tourism competitiveness models, few studies have conducted empirical …
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Development and Characterisation of a Radiation Hard Readout Chip for the LHCb Outer Tracker Detector
… of the straw tubes. A Time to Digital Converter (TDC) chip has been developed for this task. The chip integrates into the LHCb data acquisition schema and fulfils the requirements of the detector.The OTIS chip is manufactured in a commercial 0.25µm CMOS process. A 32-channel TDC core drives the …
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The international competitiveness of Malta as a tourist destination.
… research on tourism destination competitiveness (TDC), and much less on small island destinations. This study concentrates on TDC with a special focus on Malta as a small Mediterranean island in an attempt to develop a comprehensive TDC framework that is useful to small island destinations, and …
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Adaptive Pattern Modeling for Large Reflector Antennas
… of time-domain interference canceling (TDC) in radio astronomy. The first method yields a closed-form expression for the antenna pattern with parameters accounting for the focal ratio and feed pattern. In subsequent adaptive methods, parameters of this model are calculated using …
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Strategies towards high performance (high-resolution/linearity) time-to-digital converters on field-programmable gate arrays
… time measurements, time-to-digital converters (TDCs) have attracted attention since the 1970s. As a fully digital solution, TDCs are portable and have great potential for multichannel applications compared to bulky and expensive time-to-amplitude converters (TACs). A TDC can be implemented in …
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Noise shaping techniques for analog and time to digital converters using voltage controlled oscillators
… To implement a time-to-digital converter (TDC) with noise-shaping, we present a oscillator that is enabled during the measurement of an input, and then disabled in between measurements. By holding the state of the oscillator in between samples, the quantization error is saved and …
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Design and implementation of high linearity FPGA-TDCs and an integrated large scale TCSPC system for time-resolved applications
… TCSPC systems.;The time-to-digital converter (TDC) is the core component of a TCSPC system as it provides the temporal measurements with extremely high-resolution. For the scientific experiments, prototyping and high-end instruments, FPGA-based TDCs or TCSPC systems can provide excellent …
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Circuits for time-domain signal processing
… two-step counter/SAR time-to-digital converter (TDC) architecture is introduced to implement a power efficient high resolution high dynamic range TDC. Background calibration is proposed to solve circuit non-idealities that degrade TDC performance. Simulation results shows an effective number of …
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DETECTING DELAY ANOMALIES INTRODUCED BY HARDWARE TROJANS USING CHIP AVERAGING AND AN ON-CHIP HIGH RESOLUTION EMBEDDED TEST STRUCTURE
… structure called a time-to-digital converter (TDC) that provides approx. 25 ps of timing resolution. A calibration method for the TDC as well as a chip-averaging technique are demonstrated to nearly eliminate chip-to-chip and within-die process variation effects on the measured path delays …
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Data processing for 3D time of flight depth imaging
… device implemented histogram processing and a TDC (Time to Digital Converter) in an FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array). As part of the histogram processing, a centre of gravity technique was implemented (Patent US 10,416,293,B2) to measure distances up to 10 m with the ability to detect …
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Techniques for low jitter clock multiplication
… a scrambling time-to-digital converter (TDC) and correlated double sampling to infer the tuning error from the difference in cycle periods of the output. By using a digital loop filter that consists of a digital accumulator, the tuning technique avoids the analog nonidealities of typical …
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Techniques for high-performance digital frequency synthesis and phase control
… noise-shaping time-to-digital converter (TDC) and an all-digital quantization noise cancellation technique to achieve excellent in-band and out-of-band phase noise, respectively. In addition, a passive digital-to-analog converter (DAC) structure is proposed as an efficient interface …
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Internal and external load measures as predictors of overuse injury risk in professional football players
… between total GPS distance (m) covered (TDC), GPS measured high-intensity sprints (HIS), session rating of perceived exertion (sRPE) and ACWLR and overuse injuries was determined. Overuse injuries were described based on frequency, anatomical position and injury type as well as with …
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In situ control of lubricant properties for reduction of power cylinder friction through thermal barrier coating
… viscosity, boundary friction, and wear rate near TDC as that of a non-insulated liner. In order to calculate the frictional benefit of insulating the cylinder liner, an in-cylinder heat transfer model predicts the temperatures along the liner. The local oil temperatures and engine performance …
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Bimanual coordination and motor learning in children with unilateral motor disorders
… as well as in typically developing children (TDC) of similar ages, were investigated. The aims were: i) to identify behavioural changes in peak periods of development of the corpus callosum and areas of the prefrontal cortex, both of which are related to bimanual function in typically …
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Neural Alterations Influencing Skilled Reading In Adhd: A Task-Based Fmri Study
… RD (ADHD/-RD) and typically developing controls (TDC) in functional activation of attention- and reading-related areas during various tasks. The general hypothesis was that ADHD/+RD would show more extensive alterations in attention-related areas and unique alterations in reading-related areas …
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The Investigation of Combustion and Emissions of Jp8 Fuel in an Auxiliary Power Unit
… were at a minimum during combustion before TDC with increased convection losses at TDC for all fuels and first part of power stroke. The heat losses associated with the system increased slightly with the addition of JP-8 without any shifts extending for the duration of cycle. The engine …
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Integrated Signal Demodulation, Data Conversion, and Packaging Strategies for a Wireless, Fully Implantable, Bidirectional Neural Interface
… digitized by a time- to-digital converter (TDC). The TDC is implemented using a two-phase conversion scheme with temporal amplification via current-starved ring oscillators, enabling a significant reduction in clock frequency and energy consumption while maintaining the required resolution …
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