[time-nuts] new tdc from Texas

Angus not.again at btinternet.com
Sat Mar 21 01:59:36 UTC 2015


Oops, I wasn't paying attention when I looked at the GP30 info - like
Maxim, Acam has gone down the 'more integration' route and buried the
actual TDC under a heap of other stuff, which does rather limit its
usefulness. (data sheets have appeared for it now)
Oh well, nice idea while it lasted.

Angus.


On Thu, 05 Mar 2015 01:27:23 +0000, you wrote:

>Hi,
> 
>I've not seen any mention of anything other than the TDC1000. 
>
>I was a bit surprised that they went down the less-integrated route
>and separated the TDC, but it turns out that for a lot of the sort of
>things they designed it for, a uC provides good enough timing itself,
>and no extra TDC is needed at all.
>
>I see that Acam have released a bit more info on their new GP30,
>although no data sheet yet. It quotes typical LSB of 11ps, and rms
>noise of 1.2 LSB, which is quite an improvement on the GP22.
>It would just be good if they offered a simple online way of getting
>low volumes of them - I suspect that the specialist distributors would
>be just as happy as the customers would be!
> 
>Angus.
>
>
>On Tue, 03 Mar 2015 15:43:25 -0800, you wrote:
>
>>Hi Angus:
>>
>>Do you know if they have an IR pulse front end which would be more interesting than the ultrasonic front end?
>>
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>>
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>>Angus wrote:
>>> In case anyone is interested, the full data sheet is on the TI site
>>> now, although I didn't see any actual IC's yet other than the ones in
>>> the eval boards.
>>>
>>> Angus.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 21:24:08 -0200, you wrote:
>>>
>>>> Initial datasheet:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/tdc7200.pdf
>>>>
>>>> EVM:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.ti.com/tool/tdc1000-tdc7200evm
>>>>
>>>> Seems good... what do you think?
>>>>
>>>> Daniel
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