PMID- 34852511
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20211202
IS  - 1089-7623 (Electronic)
IS  - 0034-6748 (Linking)
VI  - 92
IP  - 11
DP  - 2021 Nov 1
TI  - A low-jitter timing generator based on completely on-chip self-measurement and 
      calibration in a field programmable gate array.
PG  - 114703
LID - 10.1063/5.0059264 [doi]
AB  - This paper presents a high-stability and low-jitter Arbitrary Timing Generator 
      (ATG) design based on the Xilinx Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) and its 
      special integrated delay line. In recent years, FPGA-based or application 
      specific integrated circuit-based delay lines have been used to achieve 
      picosecond-level timing resolution. Devices with pure digital delay methods can 
      only acquire triggers at the clock rising edges when triggered externally. 
      Therefore, there is a large time irregularity caused by the uncertainty of the 
      entry time of the trigger, which is difficult to compensate and leads to a large 
      time jitter of outputs. We describe the design of an ATG that includes jitter 
      self-measurement and calibration methods, which is available for both internal 
      and external trigger modes. This structure is completely based on the FPGA's own 
      resources and has the advantages of being simple and flexible. Experimental 
      results show a sub-nanosecond timing resolution of 78 +/- 20 ps with a minimum of 
      120 ps and a time jitter of 160 +/- 20 ps in the external trigger mode after 
      compensation.
FAU - Qiu, Wenjie
AU  - Qiu W
AUID- ORCID: 0000000187241170
AD  - Wuhan National High Magnetic Field Center, Huazhong University of Science and 
      Technology, Wuhan 430074, China and State Key Laboratory of Advanced 
      Electromagnetic Engineering and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and 
      Technology, Wuhan 430074, China.
FAU - Xie, Jianfeng
AU  - Xie J
AUID- ORCID: 0000000212964048
AD  - Wuhan National High Magnetic Field Center, Huazhong University of Science and 
      Technology, Wuhan 430074, China and State Key Laboratory of Advanced 
      Electromagnetic Engineering and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and 
      Technology, Wuhan 430074, China.
FAU - Liu, Qinying
AU  - Liu Q
AUID- ORCID: 0000000216671111
AD  - Wuhan National High Magnetic Field Center, Huazhong University of Science and 
      Technology, Wuhan 430074, China and State Key Laboratory of Advanced 
      Electromagnetic Engineering and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and 
      Technology, Wuhan 430074, China.
FAU - Han, Xiaotao
AU  - Han X
AUID- ORCID: 0000000270899598
AD  - Wuhan National High Magnetic Field Center, Huazhong University of Science and 
      Technology, Wuhan 430074, China and State Key Laboratory of Advanced 
      Electromagnetic Engineering and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and 
      Technology, Wuhan 430074, China.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - United States
TA  - Rev Sci Instrum
JT  - The Review of scientific instruments
JID - 0405571
SB  - IM
EDAT- 2021/12/03 06:00
MHDA- 2021/12/03 06:01
CRDT- 2021/12/02 05:28
PHST- 2021/12/02 05:28 [entrez]
PHST- 2021/12/03 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2021/12/03 06:01 [medline]
AID - 10.1063/5.0059264 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Rev Sci Instrum. 2021 Nov 1;92(11):114703. doi: 10.1063/5.0059264.