TDC Tests using the Altera FPGA Development Board 5QV1



July 2003:
We performed some tests with slow rising pulses:

These two plots present LVDS pulses through a 1ft cable, recorded with scope and with Signal Tap inside the Stratix device:


 

Same here, but in this case we have a 47pF cap on the line:
(the short pulse is to small to be recorded by the LVDS receivers)
 


 

Jan-Feb. 2003:

Using an Altera FPGA Development Board Q5V1 by Rowe Engineering, we implemented in the same chip a 12 channel LVDS pulse
generator  and we fed the signals back into the chip's SERDES Time to Digital Converter (see below picture).
We used cables of different lengths (6" increments), to create delays so different inputs received pulses at different time intervals.
The output of converter was read with ByteBlasterMV using SignalTap.



 
 
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by Mircea Bogdan on August 28, 2003