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The Modern FPGA as Discriminator, TDC and ADC
Recent generations of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have become
indispensible tools for complex state machine control and signal processing,
and now routinely incorporate CPU cores to allow execution of user software
code. At the same time, their exceptional performance permits low-power
implementation of functionality previously the exclusive domain of dedicated
analog electronics. Specific examples presented here use FPGAs as
discriminator, time-to-digital (TDC) and analog-to-digital converter (ADC). All
three cases are examples of instrumentation for current or future astroparticle
experiments.Comment: 7 pages, v3 minor JINST editorial correction