Traditional digitizers for signal readout of PET detectors are based on commercial analog-to-digital converters(ADC).However,the cost and power consumption of an entire electronic readout system based on digitizers fo...Traditional digitizers for signal readout of PET detectors are based on commercial analog-to-digital converters(ADC).However,the cost and power consumption of an entire electronic readout system based on digitizers for a PET scanner are high.To address this problem,a soft-core ADC based on a field-programmable gate array(FPGA)was proposed.An FPGA-based ADC(FPGA-ADC)combines low loss and high performance.To achieve good performance,the FPGA-ADC requires three calibrations:time-to-digital converter(TDC)length calibration,TDC alignment calibration,and TDC-to-ADC calibration.A prototype front-end electronics based on FPGA-ADC was built to evaluate the performance of time-of-flight positron emission tomography(TOF PET)detectors.Each PET detector consists of a LYSO crystal single-ended coupled to a silicon photomultiplier(SiPM).The experimental results show that the full-width at half-maximum(FWHM)energy resolution for 511 keV gamma photons after saturation correction of the SiPM was 12.3%.The FWHM coincidence timing resolution(CTR)of the TOF PET detector with the readout of the front-end electronic prototype is 385.2 ps.FPGA-ADCbased front-end electronics are very promising for multichannel,low-cost,highly integrated,and power-efficient readout electronic systems for radiation detector applications.展开更多
为解决传统电平交叉模数转换器(LC ADC)精度较低和噪声整形逐次逼近寄存器(NS SAR)ADC功耗较大的问题,提出了一种应用于移动物联网(IoT)随机稀疏信号采集的LC-NS SAR ADC。在NS SAR ADC前端插入8 bit的LC ADC作为输入信号活跃度的预检...为解决传统电平交叉模数转换器(LC ADC)精度较低和噪声整形逐次逼近寄存器(NS SAR)ADC功耗较大的问题,提出了一种应用于移动物联网(IoT)随机稀疏信号采集的LC-NS SAR ADC。在NS SAR ADC前端插入8 bit的LC ADC作为输入信号活跃度的预检测电路,在电平交叉发生后开启NS SAR ADC的转换。二阶无源噪声整形电路积分过程只在事件触发后发生,从而能够根据输入信号的活跃度动态调节整体功耗。在1.8 V 180 nm CMOS工艺、采样率为40 kS/s、过采样率(OSR)为20、带宽为1 kHz下对该ADC进行仿真验证,结果表明信噪失真比(SNDR)达到87 dB,电路功耗为2.70μW,心电图信号输入时功耗仅为0.79μW,相较于传统等间隔奈奎斯特采样ADC,采样点减少了73%,在处理生物医学信号时实现了约5∶1的数据压缩比,Schreier品质因数(FoMs)和Walden品质因数(FoMw)分别为172.6 dB和67.0 fJ/conv.step。展开更多
基金supported by the Key R&D Program of Shandong Province(No.2023SFGC0101)Shandong Excellent Young Scientists Fund Program(Overseas)(No.2023HWYQ-047)+1 种基金the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province(No.ZR2022QA039)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)(No.U2106202).
文摘Traditional digitizers for signal readout of PET detectors are based on commercial analog-to-digital converters(ADC).However,the cost and power consumption of an entire electronic readout system based on digitizers for a PET scanner are high.To address this problem,a soft-core ADC based on a field-programmable gate array(FPGA)was proposed.An FPGA-based ADC(FPGA-ADC)combines low loss and high performance.To achieve good performance,the FPGA-ADC requires three calibrations:time-to-digital converter(TDC)length calibration,TDC alignment calibration,and TDC-to-ADC calibration.A prototype front-end electronics based on FPGA-ADC was built to evaluate the performance of time-of-flight positron emission tomography(TOF PET)detectors.Each PET detector consists of a LYSO crystal single-ended coupled to a silicon photomultiplier(SiPM).The experimental results show that the full-width at half-maximum(FWHM)energy resolution for 511 keV gamma photons after saturation correction of the SiPM was 12.3%.The FWHM coincidence timing resolution(CTR)of the TOF PET detector with the readout of the front-end electronic prototype is 385.2 ps.FPGA-ADCbased front-end electronics are very promising for multichannel,low-cost,highly integrated,and power-efficient readout electronic systems for radiation detector applications.
文摘为解决传统电平交叉模数转换器(LC ADC)精度较低和噪声整形逐次逼近寄存器(NS SAR)ADC功耗较大的问题,提出了一种应用于移动物联网(IoT)随机稀疏信号采集的LC-NS SAR ADC。在NS SAR ADC前端插入8 bit的LC ADC作为输入信号活跃度的预检测电路,在电平交叉发生后开启NS SAR ADC的转换。二阶无源噪声整形电路积分过程只在事件触发后发生,从而能够根据输入信号的活跃度动态调节整体功耗。在1.8 V 180 nm CMOS工艺、采样率为40 kS/s、过采样率(OSR)为20、带宽为1 kHz下对该ADC进行仿真验证,结果表明信噪失真比(SNDR)达到87 dB,电路功耗为2.70μW,心电图信号输入时功耗仅为0.79μW,相较于传统等间隔奈奎斯特采样ADC,采样点减少了73%,在处理生物医学信号时实现了约5∶1的数据压缩比,Schreier品质因数(FoMs)和Walden品质因数(FoMw)分别为172.6 dB和67.0 fJ/conv.step。
